Ross Feller Casey

A Philadelphia jury awarded $85 million to a University of Pennsylvania medical student left disabled after falling 18 feet into an open Trigen Energy manhole at 19th and Walnut Streets, the largest personal injury verdict in the United States for 2008.

Joel Feller and Matt Casey of Ross Feller Casey represented seven of the 26 survivors who reached a global civil settlement with Penn State University totaling $59.7 million, the largest single-firm contingent in the proceedings.

A Philadelphia jury awarded Andrea Tate $44.1 million after the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania stopped monitoring her blood-clotting levels mid-treatment, allowing heparin to build to a dangerous concentration that caused a massive brain hemorrhage following routine tumor surgery.

Ross Feller Casey secured a $32.5 million settlement against Reading Hospital after its labor and delivery team failed to recognize signs of intra-amniotic infection and delayed a C-section, leaving a boy born in 2018 with permanent hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

A York County jury awarded James Spangler a record $23.87 million after neurosurgeon Dr. Joseph Krzeminski inserted a screw into his spinal cord during a routine back procedure at WellSpan York Hospital and kept operating despite active monitoring alarms signaling catastrophic nerve damage.

A Chester County jury awarded $18 million (later raised to $19.16 million by the trial judge) after a certified nurse practitioner twice examined a 22-year-old and dismissed her breast lump without ordering imaging, delaying a cancer diagnosis by nine months and forcing a bilateral mastectomy instead of a lumpectomy.

A young man helping push a disabled car off Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia was crushed in a second collision in July 2009 and later lost his right leg above the knee. In May 2013 a Philadelphia jury awarded Patrick Hennessy $19,145,904.17 against two drivers and assigned 45 percent of the causal negligence to the driver of the car he had been riding in. In April 2014 the trial judge rejected that driver's post-trial challenges, including his request to reduce the award.

A Berks County jury awarded $9.6 million in December 2019 to a 15-year-old girl whose cervical cancer, first signaled by persistent bleeding that began when she was 11, was not diagnosed until 2016. The jury put 50 percent of fault on a physician, 40 percent on Reading Hospital and 10 percent on Farias Medical Clinic. The award includes about $4.5 million for future medical expenses.