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About David L. Kwass
“I have gifts and skills that allow me to help people who can't help themselves. For me, that’s the core value of my law practice because I have the ability to help others, I must.” In addition to trying to recover maximum compensation for his clients, Dave is committed to making the construction industry safer by writing articles, speaking at industry conferences, and training other plaintiffs’ lawyers. David L. Kwass handles cases involving crane and aerial lift accidents, equipment tip overs, guardrail failures, automobile crashworthiness claims, electrical contacts, workplace falls, recreational products, and liquor liability.
Dave served as Chair of the State Civil Procedural Rules Committee. An active member of the American Association for Justice, Dave is a past Chair of the Product Liability Section, and currently serves as Chair of the Crane and Aerial Lift Litigation Group and Co-Chair of the Guardrail Litigation Group. His passion for workplace safety and safe product design has resulted in nearly 150 separate verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 million. Since 2012, he has been recognized each year as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer .
Dave's courtroom advocacy has earned multiple seven-figure verdicts for his clients, including a $19.1 million award in June 2021. American Lawyer Media recognized this verdict as the largest in Pennsylvania for 2021. Daves is a 1987 graduate of Haverford College, receiving a B.A. with honors.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky
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The families of 98 people killed in the June 2021 Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Florida, recovered over $1 billion through a class settlement run by a court-appointed Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, with final approval reached in under a year.
After Amtrak Train 188 derailed in Philadelphia in May 2015, killing eight and injuring more than 200, Kline & Specter's Thomas R. Kline led the plaintiffs' negotiations that produced a $265 million settlement fund for the victims.
A Pennsylvania-record $227 million settlement resolved claims brought by 19 victims of the June 2013 Center City building collapse, in which an improperly braced wall fell during demolition and crushed the adjoining Salvation Army thrift store, killing seven people.
A Montgomery County jury awarded the estate of Ellen Gregory Robb $124.26 million in November 2014 against her husband, a former Penn economics professor who killed her in 2006 and pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Of the total, $100 million was punitive damages. The proceeds were for the couple's daughter, the estate's beneficiary. The award stood after Robb's post-trial challenge, though collection was limited to his retirement and investment assets.
Four construction workers were killed and more than 30 injured when five floors of a parking garage under construction at the Tropicana Casino Resort in Atlantic City collapsed in October 2003, leading to what attorneys described as the largest construction-accident settlement in U.S. history at that time.
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