Robert Szostak

Robert Szostak

Attorney at Reiff Law Firm
Philadelphia, PAAdmitted 1982
Car AccidentsWorkplace InjuryProduct LiabilityTruck AccidentsSlip & FallMedical MalpracticeWrongful Death

About Robert Szostak

Robert T. Szostak has more than 34 years of experience representing victims of catastrophic injury and death, handling matters from initial client consultation through the appellate process. His practice covers medical professional negligence, product liability, motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, amusement park liability, construction and workplace injury, false imprisonment, insurance bad faith, fraud, defamation, governmental immunity, highway design defects, explosion, traumatic brain injury, and other forms of professional negligence. He has served as lead trial or co-trial counsel in more than 35 jury trials. A graduate of Brown University (B.A., 1976) and Widener University School of Law (J.D., 1982), he ranked in the top 5 percent of Pennsylvania medical malpractice lawyers by Philadelphia Magazine and has held a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent peer review rating for over 10 years. He has been a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer since 2008. He chaired the Philadelphia Bar Association State Civil Litigation Section for three years, served on its Board of Governors and Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention, and is an Alumni Trustee at La Salle College High School. He teaches classes and seminars for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and trial attorney associations in his practice areas, and has authored publications including analyses of the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error Act and guides on wrongful death and survival action damages.

Notable case results

$995,200Verdict

A Philadelphia jury awarded $995,200 after finding Sesame Place 68 percent liable for a visitor's severe ankle fracture-dislocation caused by rubber aquatic shoes the park actively sold and never banned from its waterslide.

Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas · 2014Read the full story →
$5.7 millionSettlement

For brain injury caused during radiographic procedure

Reported by the firm
$4.375 millionVerdict

Bucks County verdict for 89-year-old man against emergency room doctor and hospital

Reported by the firm
$1.7 millionVerdict

For failure to diagnose meningitis

Reported by the firm
$1.3 millionSettlement

For closed head injury case

Reported by the firm
$1.2 millionSettlement

For blindness caused by failure to diagnose

Reported by the firm
$1.1 millionVerdict

For arm injury due to radiology negligence

Reported by the firm
$1 millionSettlement

For trucker injured by an underinsured automobile driver

Reported by the firm
$775,000Settlement

In a Berks County slip and fall case

Reported by the firm

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Car Accidents
Workplace Injury
Product Liability
Truck Accidents
Slip & Fall
Medical Malpractice
Wrongful Death

Education

Widener University School of Law
J.D., 1982
Brown University
Undergraduate, 1976

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Pennsylvania, admitted 1982
State Bar of New Jersey, admitted 1983

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