Peter Newman
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About Peter Newman
Peter M. Newman represents clients in catastrophic personal injury cases including medical malpractice, product liability, complex personal injury, and wrongful death actions. He also handles claims against insurance companies for bad faith in adjusting or defending claims and for unreasonably denying disability benefits. Peter joined Feldman Shepherd after practicing at another prominent Philadelphia plaintiffs' firm. He earned his J.D. cum laude from Tulane University Law School and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and before multiple federal courts.
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A $160 million settlement, the largest pre-verdict settlement in Pennsylvania court history, resolved claims against U-Haul after an overfilled propane tank exploded at a North Philadelphia food truck, killing a mother and her teenage daughter and severely burning three others.
A Philadelphia jury found Pottstown Memorial Medical Center liable for a newborn's severe spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy after the hospital's outdated, unmaintained ultrasound equipment led a physician to incorrectly declare the baby dead, delaying an emergency cesarean section by 81 minutes.
Feldman Shepherd secured a combined $50 million settlement from IKEA on behalf of three families whose toddler sons were fatally crushed by MALM dressers, a result that preceded a nationwide recall of approximately 29 million chests and dressers.
Alan Feldman of Feldman Shepherd secured a $46 million settlement against IKEA on behalf of the family of a 2-year-old boy crushed by a MALM dresser in California, reported at the time as the largest child wrongful-death settlement in U.S. history.
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