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About Elizabeth Crawford
Elizabeth Crawford began her legal career as a clerk for a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice before joining Kline & Specter. After five and a half years, she was promoted to partner in 2019 following significant victories securing hundreds of millions in verdicts and settlements. In May 2026, Crawford and Shanin Specter won a $49.5 million verdict in federal court in Chicago against Boeing for an Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 MAX8 crash victim. They previously secured the first related verdict of $28.45 million in November 2025, totaling $35.847 million with prejudgment interest. Crawford achieved over $100 million in settlements in 2024.
In December 2023, she negotiated a $19.5 million settlement in Delaware County medical malpractice involving a college student with brain injury. Earlier that year, she secured an eight-figure settlement in New Jersey for paralysis following spinal surgery. In 2022, Crawford achieved a $19 million settlement for a birth-related brain injury, $8 million in train accident recovery, $9 million for another birth injury case, and an eight-figure aviation settlement, totaling over $50 million that year. As lead counsel, Crawford won a $4.7 million medical malpractice verdict, among Montgomery County's largest.
She obtained multi-million-dollar settlements against Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Hershey Medical Center, and Geisinger Medical Center. As co-counsel, she secured $7 million in Delaware County, $5 million in Monroe County, and $5 million for a Philadelphia hospital negligence death case. Crawford was involved in a record 2016 Philadelphia settlement regarding 14th Amendment violation and intentional infliction of emotional distress following police arrest and release leading to sexual assault. She litigated helicopter crash cases, achieving eight-figure settlements, and represents families of babies with severe hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy from obstetric negligence, obtaining eight-digit settlements.
Crawford serves on the Plaintiffs' Executive Committee for Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 victims, representing estates of a U.S. global health analyst, U.S. physician, and United Nations environmentalist. She received the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star designation (2019-2025), ranking among the top 2.5% of attorneys 40 or younger. She is a National Trial Lawyers "Pennsylvania Top 40 Under 40" member and was named by Best Lawyers in America 2024 among "Ones to Watch." In law school, Crawford won awards for Best Student Performance in trial advocacy, criminal law, and contract law.
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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