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About Gerald Parker
Gerald Parker III, M.D., J.D., is a doctor-lawyer at Ross Feller Casey who brings more than 40 years of combined medical and legal experience to complex medical malpractice cases throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. His cases have spanned birth injuries, limb amputations, delays in diagnosing cancers, brain and spinal cord injuries, sudden cardiac deaths, overmédication, and complications from medical and surgical procedures. His work has contributed to major legal victories, including a $23.1 million verdict in Lehigh County for a woman who lost both legs due to failure to properly evaluate and treat a bloodstream infection, and a $6.4 million verdict for the children of a Philadelphia man who died from medical negligence. Parker graduated magna cum laude from Juniata College and earned his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College.
He trained at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood in Internal Medicine, and completed fellowship training in Medical Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. As a physician, Parker focused on acute care, occupational health, and urgent care at several New Jersey hospitals and at the Deborah Heart and Lung Center. He is a member of both the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association, and is a member of the bar associations of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Ross Feller Casey
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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.
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