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About Amanda Kurecian
Amanda L. Kurecian is an experienced attorney who previously operated her own firm and served as of counsel at a suburban law office before joining Kline & Specter, where she currently works in the Mass Tort department. Since 2018, she has been part of a medical device product liability team that successfully litigated hundreds of transvaginal mesh cases against major pharmaceutical corporations including Johnson & Johnson, resulting in several eight- and nine-figure verdicts. She managed all litigation aspects including evaluating claim viability, reviewing medical records, conducting legal research, drafting correspondence and briefs, and representing clients at conferences.
Kurecian conducted depositions of clients, expert witnesses, and treating physicians while assisting lead attorneys in trial preparation. Previously at Ashby Law Offices in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, she handled estate, family, and orphans' court matters, performing legal research, drafting pleadings, and representing clients at court conferences and hearings. She held legal internships with the Montgomery County Office of the Public Defender and the Hon. Edward G. Smith of Northampton County Court of Common Pleas.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Kline & Specter, PC
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A Philadelphia jury found that Monsanto failed to warn that Roundup could cause cancer and awarded John McKivison $2.25 billion. The trial judge later reduced the award to $400 million.
After Amtrak Train 188 derailed in Philadelphia in May 2015, killing eight and injuring more than 200, Kline & Specter's Thomas R. Kline led the plaintiffs' negotiations that produced a $265 million settlement fund for the victims.
A Philadelphia jury found the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania liable for the brain injury a newborn suffered when staff delayed a cesarean section, a $182.7 million verdict that grew to a molded judgment of about $207.6 million, the largest medical malpractice award in Pennsylvania history. Kline & Specter argued and won the appeal, where the Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed the full $207.6 million judgment in July 2025.
A Philadelphia jury awarded Ernest Caranci $175 million after finding that decades of Roundup use caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma and that Monsanto failed to warn of the risk. Kline & Specter tried the case, the first Roundup trial in Philadelphia, and the verdict was later upheld on appeal.
A federal jury in Nevada found Ford's pickup parking brake defective and held that the company should have warned owners, returning a verdict near $153 million after three-year-old Walter White was killed by a truck that rolled in the family driveway. Shanin Specter of Kline & Specter tried the case.
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