About Victor Pribanic
Victor H. Pribanic is the founding member of Pribanic & Pribanic and an award-winning personal injury and medical malpractice attorney. A graduate of Bowling Green State University and Duquesne University School of Law, Victor began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in Pittsburgh before founding the firm in 1984. His practice covers personal injury, medical malpractice, product liability, automobile defects, birth injuries, business litigation, civil trials, and criminal defense. Victor devotes 95% of his time to litigation.
He has obtained numerous seven- and eight-figure verdicts and settlements, including a $103 million accounting malpractice verdict, a $21 million product liability and hospital malpractice settlement, and a $2.2 million defamation verdict in New Jersey. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America multiple times, named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer from 2004 to 2013, and selected as a Top 50 Pittsburgh Super Lawyer (2011-2012). Victor is a member of the International Society of Barristers and the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County, and holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
Proven verdicts and settlements
After a months-long non-jury trial in Butler County, a judge found Ernst and Young liable for accounting negligence and misrepresentation in its handling of bankruptcy records tied to a long-running Ponzi scheme, awarding Barbara Reilly $102,718,989, a verdict the Pennsylvania Superior Court later vacated and sent back for a new trial.
Victor Pribanic won a $3.25 million jury verdict, the largest in McKean County history and the first plaintiff win in a county med-mal trial since 2000, for a 66-year-old school janitor whose emergency room physicians and primary care doctor missed a foot abscess until it required a below-knee amputation.
Victor Pribanic secured a confidential settlement for the family of James Yingling III, a 35-year-old father of five who died after his Saturn Ion lost steering and braking when a defective GM ignition switch cut power to critical safety systems.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
