About Gregory Haroutounian

Gregory Haroutounian concentrates his practice on catastrophic injuries, medical malpractice, and product liability. He began his legal career in 2000 at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Washington, DC, where he focused on complex commercial litigation including Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, contractual disputes, and business fraud matters. In 2007, he joined Dechert, LLP, as an associate representing a major pharmaceutical company and a global oil and gas enterprise. Since joining Ross Feller Casey, Haroutounian has worked alongside the founding partners on major recoveries including $26 million in a wrongful death case involving a defectively designed motor vehicle; $20 million for a child who suffered a brain infection; $19.16 million for the failure to diagnose and treat breast cancer (reported to be the largest known verdict in Chester County, Pa. history); $13 million for a delay in delivery resulting in cerebral palsy; and $10.5 million in New Jersey for failure to timely diagnose and treat a stroke.

As lead counsel, he has secured recoveries including $6 million for a delay in diagnosing brain cancer and $4.25 million for a delay in diagnosing sarcoma. Haroutounian graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany in 1994, graduated summa cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law in 1999 where he was class Salutatorian, and earned an LL.M. in Trial Advocacy from Temple University School of Law in 2008. He is proficient in Armenian.

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.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas · 2008Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$59.7 millionSettlementTop 20 of 2013 · #6

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.

Penn State University / federal and state civil proceedings · 2013Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$44.1 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2016 · #14

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.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas · 2016Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$32.5 millionSettlement

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.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas · 2024Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$23.87 millionVerdict

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.

York County Court of Common Pleas, PA · 2024Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

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

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Education

Syracuse University College of Law
J.D., 1999
State University of New York at Albany
Undergraduate, 1994

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Pennsylvania

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