About Kevin McHale

Kevin J. McHale joined Ross Feller Casey in April 2026 and represents catastrophically injured individuals and their families in complex personal injury and medical malpractice litigation. Prior to joining the firm, McHale practiced at another Philadelphia-area personal injury firm and at an Am Law 200 defense firm in its medical malpractice group, litigating complex catastrophic injury and medical malpractice cases. His experience on both sides of the bar gives him insight into how hospitals, physicians, and insurance companies evaluate and defend claims. McHale is a Philadelphia-area native and former Ivy League student-athlete.

He graduated cum laude with a degree in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania, where he lettered multiple years as a member of the men's heavyweight rowing team and was recognized by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (All-Academic Team) and The Philadelphia Inquirer (Academic All-Area Team). He earned a full merit scholarship to Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and published an article in the Texas Environmental Law Journal while there. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of 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.

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.

Practice areas

Education

Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
J.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Pennsylvania

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