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About Gilbert Shelsby
Gilbert F. Shelsby, Jr. is of counsel at Kline & Specter, focusing on personal injury and medical malpractice cases throughout Delaware and surrounding regions. Before establishing his practice with partner Robert J. Leoni at Shelsby & Leoni, Shelsby practiced insurance defense law, representing doctors and hospitals in medical malpractice litigation, experience that provided critical insight into how insurance companies evaluate and defend personal injury claims. In 2013, Shelsby helped secure a $30 million settlement for a young child who sustained severe brain damage from improperly managed anesthesia during a routine hospital procedure. He litigated a workplace injury case involving severe arm and shoulder damage when another employee started a diesel tractor-trailer engine while Shelsby's client worked on the transmission; despite a $20,000 insurance offer, a jury awarded $3.2 million.
In a birth injury matter, Shelsby represented a boy with permanent neurological nerve injuries to his arm caused by shoulder trauma during delivery after a physician failed to perform a necessary Cesarean section; the nearly two-week trial resulted in a $1.5 million verdict. He negotiated a settlement exceeding $4 million in a medical malpractice case where a woman lost her kidneys after an emergency room misdiagnosis of kidney stone and infection without prescribed antibiotics led to septic shock. Shelsby has been recognized as a top medical malpractice attorney by Delaware Today magazine and selected as a Super Lawyers honoree since 2007. He was named among the nation's top lawyers by Best Lawyers in America.
A featured speaker on medical malpractice at the University of Maryland Law School, Widener Law School, and hospitals in Wilmington and Baltimore, Shelsby has taught seminars on Delaware nursing law. After law school, he served as law clerk for Joseph H.H. Kaplan, administrative judge of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. He holds membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates, American Association for Justice, and Delaware Trial Lawyers Association.
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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