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About Steven G. Wigrizer
"I have dedicated my career to giving a voice to those who have suffered serious harm from poor medical care or negligent actions by the medical industry." In January 2020, Steven G. Wigrizer joined the firm as Chair of the Medical Malpractice Department. Steve has been a premiere medical negligence attorney in the region for decades and brings more than forty years of experience to the team. His sustained success in medical malpractice actions has brought him national acclaim.
In 2017, Steve served as co-lead counsel with Bob Mongeluzzi in the Philadelphia Salvation Army Thrift Store Collapse trial, which resulted in the historic liability verdict and record-setting settlement. The trial lasted nearly six months, the longest civil trial in Philadelphia history. The $227 million dollar settlement is believed to be the largest in Pennsylvania history.
In addition to the $227 million dollar result in the Salvation Army trial, Steve has achieved numerous impressive verdicts and settlements, including: By way of new litigation and practice areas, Steve filed suit on behalf of the City of Coatesville in the groundbreaking Opioid litigation against the manufacturers and distributors of the product. Steve believes that the root cause of the opioid crisis is over prescription, which stems directly from deceptive and misleading information provided to prescribing doctors. At Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky, Steve now serves as the Chair of the Medical Malpractice group.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky
These results are credited to Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
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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