Estate of Holly Maddux v. Ira Einhorn: We obtained the largest judgment ever against a single individual, a $907 million verdict against Ira Einhorn for the murder of his girlfriend, Holly Maddux.
Smith v Republic of Iraq et al: The firm won a $104 million verdict in 2003 on behalf of the families of victims of the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks, the first September 11th verdict.
Vlazny v. Cavarrocci MD et al: One of the largest medical malpractice verdict in Pennsylvania history. This case involved an adult heart surgeon who operated on a baby who required a relatively simple heart surgery. Dr. Cavarrocci was unfamiliar with the tiny anatomy of a very small, premature neonate, and his lack of knowledge caused the baby to suffer severe brain damage and amputation of his arm.
Gault v. Norwood: 2nd largest medical malpractice verdict in history. Famous heart surgeon William Norwood performed an unauthorized surgical procedure on Stephen Gault, rendering him severely brain damaged and in permanent need of lifelong care. Norwood operated on a healthy baby's narrow aorta, but performed an unnecessary procedure, stopping the baby's heart and blood flow. Cooling the body too quickly caused irreversible brain damage, leaving the child unable to walk, talk, or care for himself. The $55 million verdict allowed Gault's family to provide him the care he needed.
Maragos v. Bradley, et al: The closely-watched medical malpractice case revolved around a meniscus tear that Maragos' medical team failed to treat and the medically negligent decision to advance his rehab. "This case and this jury may have changed the course of history by now forcing these team doctors and trainers to stop worrying about when a player might return to play and start thinking about the next 50 years of a player’s life,” said Dion G. Rassias, who tried the two week case.
Fallon v Snyder: Jim Beasley, Sr. and Marsha Santangelo tried a six-week-long medical negligence case on behalf of a child who suffered oxygen deprivation and a brain injury due to a doctor putting a breathing tube into the esophagus instead of the lungs.
Sprague v. Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.: The largest defamation award in Pennsylvania history. The Beasley Firm sued the Philadelphia Inquirer and won $34 million on behalf of Richard Sprague, who was accused of quashing a murder investigation when he was acting as Philadelphia’s Assistant District Attorney. Tried twice, with the first verdict of $3.4 million, but when retried a different jury also found that the newspaper had intentionally harmed Mr. Sprague and came down with the record setting verdict: $2.5 million compensatory and $31.5 million punitive damages. This case lasted for more than twenty years and is a testament to The Beasley Firm’s tenacity in fighting for what’s right on behalf of those that have been injured.
Guarnere v. Cessna Aircraft Corporation Verdict: This was a record setting verdict for an airplane crash that involved a seat defect in a Cessna aircraft. The defective seat caused the pilot’s seat to slide backwards while the pilot was attempting to land, causing the pilot to lose control of the airplane and crash. Three of the four passengers, including the pilot were killed.
Fledderman v. Glunk: This tragic case came into the firm through the Firm’s founder, Jim Beasley Sr., and involved the unnecessary death of a teenager after an elective liposuction procedure. By the time this case was completed, the Beasley Firm expended over $390,000.00 to investigate this tragedy, generated over 10,000 pages of documents, and spent five weeks on trial. Former Beasley Firm attorneys Slade McLaughlin used their knowledge and the Firm’s resources to obtain a highly publicized $20.5 million verdict for the family of this young woman. At its core, the plastic surgeon failed to acknowledge the woman was suffering from post-operative complications and was having trouble breathing and the CRNA looked the other way why the woman was dying. Justice was served when the jury awarded the $20.5 million on the 7th year anniversary of this woman’s death.
Skirpan v. Caterpillar , Inc. and Chrin Brothers Settlement: Ex-marine Scott Skirpan was working in a landfill when he was run over by a bulldozer and suffered traumatic amputations of both legs.
Dupon v. Holy Redeemer Hospital Verdict: $15 million verdict for a woman who suffered a stroke during carotid artery surgery. Barbara Axelrod successfully handled the post-trial appeals in this case, allowing The Beasley Firm to hold on to the verdict.
Jim Beasley Jr., Scott Bennett, and Jimmy Binns represented the family of a man who was hit head-on by a drunk driver. This driver went to two bars, the second bar whose identify was unknown until The Beasley Firm’s relentless investigation identified this bar. After extensive and aggressive discovery, The Beasley Firm was able to prove that these bars were aware of this driver’s drunken state, and with the threat of a trial looming, they settled for a record amount.
Hoffer v. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Verdict: On November 2, 2012, after a two week trial, a Philadelphia jury awarded 12.6 million dollars to a child who suffered severe brain injury due to the neglect of his health care providers. When his mother was 38 weeks pregnant, the baby had flipped around inside her, for the first time in a “breech” position rather than head down. The midwife diagnosed this during a routine visit, but failed to call a physician to attempt to externally turn the baby. Instead, she was discharged without care, and scheduled for a cesarean section the following week. The day before she was supposed to have the cesarean section, her water broke and the umbilical cord prolapsed out and was between her legs. They rushed to the hospital but by the time the baby was delivered by emergency cesarean section it was too late and he suffered severe and permanent brain damage.
Jim Beasley Jr, Dion Rassias, and Jimmy Binns of The Beasley Firm represented a family whose triplet children were seriously injured, one of whom passed away, after a dump truck crashed into their school bus. The firm successfully resolved the case with accident reconstruction and expert testimony and were able to gain some closure for the family after this horrific accident.
Myers & Gray v. Philadelphia Housing Authority: $11 million verdict for failure to ensure working smoke detectors were present in the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) houses.
$8,000,000 verdict for helicopter crash victim.
In a particularly tragic case, the parents of a child who died after being improperly discharged from a community hospital reached out to Jim Beasley Jr. to investigate how this could have happened, and to hold the doctors and the hospital who permitted this to happen accountable. After extensive investigation, Jim and Pete Johnsen uncovered that the doctors at this hospital were more focused on discharging this child rather than abiding by the parents’ wishes to transfer him to a pediatric specialty hospital. This recovery, in a conservative county in Pennsylvania, was one of the largest recoveries in that county for a medical malpractice wrongful death case.
$6.6 million automobile accident settlement. Our client was paralyzed in a car accident in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Jim Beasley Jr. was contacted by another attorney to handle this catastrophic injury case.
Jim Beasley Jr was asked by the family of a child who ended up blind due to a delay in diagnosing cancer in his eyes. A very challenging case to prove, only after Jim took these defendants to trial did they settle to provide the funds needed to care for this child.
$5,400,000 million verdict against the USA Air Traffic Control System after a fatal mid-air collision.
$5 million total settlement value (full insurance policy limits) for a birth injury/delayed birth/cerebral palsy case in rural Pennsylvania.
Valenti v. Central Parking $5 million verdict for a security guard who was injured at the Philadelphia Sports Complex: Calvin Valenti was a lifelong Phillies fan and spent his life working for Comcast Spectator at the Philadelphia Sports Complex.
$4.5 million recovery for a patient injured in a psychiatric center. Jayne Piarulli represented a young man who was seeking treatment for his schizophrenia. While he was a patient in the state-run psychiatric center, there was an altercation that left the patient paralyzed and a quadriplegic.
$4,500,000 million settlement for improper maintenance resulting in an uncontrollable aircraft and crash.
Jones v Lovrinic: $4.4 million verdict: Failure to diagnose tongue cancer. Bob Jones was an engineer, devoted husband, and father of two daughters. He religiously went to his doctor and was checked for white spots on his tongue, a condition known as …
$4 million settlement: Failure to diagnose a post-operative bleed, and the patient bled to death in the recovery room. Joe Ruzzi was a healthy twenty-year-old boy studying to be a chef when he tripped and fell down a flight of stairs. He was fine but …
$3.9 million settlement during trial: Prenatal/Birth negligence: failure to deliver baby showing distress on Fetal Monitoring Strips Mom was a young woman with her first pregnancy and was excited to finally become a parent. She made every prenatal …
$3 million settlement for a delay in delivering a distressed fetus. The Firm sued a local Delaware County hospital for a newborn that developed Cerebral Palsy (CP) as a result of a delayed birth. The fetal heart monitoring strips showed that the baby was in distress from the time the mother arrived at the hospital. The mother was of advanced maternal age and had several miscarriages prior to her admission and numerous complications during her pregnancy. After discovery was completed, Dion Rassias was able to settle the case for $3 million, and ensured that this child had proper money management, so that the recovery will result in over $17 million over the child’s lifetime.
When a kiss is more than a kiss. A waitress was awarded $3 million by a Philadelphia jury for an unwanted kiss from a restaurant patron. See Lisi v. Englesbe in Cases in the Spotlight. Note: Praecipe to Satisfy Judgment filed, the case resolved.
$2.25 million settlement: Failure to deliver a premature baby when the doctors knew there was an infection in the uterus. Our client was pregnant with her first child and came to the hospital due to early labor contractions. Blood tests and examinations showed an infection in the womb, yet the doctors permitted the mother and baby to wait over eight hours before delivering the baby. The child was born critically ill with an infection and unfortunately suffered permanent brain damage.
$1.9 million products liability settlement for a defective helmet resulting in paralysis. The Firm’s client was wearing a helmet while he was playing sports at his school when he was hit in the head. The faulty helmet allowed his neck to bend in such a way that the spinal cord was injured. The sports helmet manufacturer fought hard, but the Firm was able to obtain a settlement that will provide for this young man’s future care.
Kostic v. LU Transport: $1.6 million truck accident settlement. John Kostic was driving on a state road in New Jersey when a tractor-trailer rear-ended him, killing him almost instantly. We were able to bring this case to Pennsylvania and overcame …
$1.45 million settlement: failure to diagnose blood clot after knee replacement surgery. Our client underwent a successful elective knee replacement surgery. On the night following the surgery, she developed a blood clot in her leg that cut off the blood flow to her leg. The night nurse did not come in to see or evaluate the patient all night, and by the time the doctor saw her the next morning, the leg was cold and dying. She required amputation as a result of the nurses’ neglect.
$1.4 million settlement during trial: Failure to recognize intraoperative bleeding and death. Our client required a pacemaker to be removed from his body because of an infected pacemaker wire. During the procedure, the doctor pulled out the wire and ripped a hole in the patient’s blood vessel, causing internal bleeding. For the next hour, even though the heart rate and blood pressure were becoming increasingly abnormal, the doctors never called a heart surgeon to help stop the bleeding. The patient, a father of two, died on the procedure table. After a few days of trial, the defendants settled for $1.4 million.
$1.4 million settlement: failure to diagnose and treat a parotid tumor resulting in recurrence and metastases to the brain. Our client’s husband repeatedly went to the ears, nose, and throat (ENT) doctor complaining of a lump by his ear, yet the doctor did nothing. Unfortunately, by the time the parotid tumor was diagnosed, cancer has spread to his brain causing horrible pain and suffering until he died.
$1.4 million settlement for fall injury. Dion Rassias represented a plaintiff who filed a premises liability action as a result of a rotted wooden railing that caused the plaintiff’s fall. During the fall, the plaintiff sustained an internal facial laceration that caused him to lose his sense of smell and some of his sense of taste. The case raised issues about the property owner’s knowledge of the defective railing and settled in the summer of 2014 for $1.45 million.
Attorney Lane Jubb won a $1,300,000.00 verdict against Reading Hospital in a Berks County Medical Malpractice lawsuit related to an undiagnosed stroke of 31 year old woman in the Emergency Room. The verdict was for non-economic pain and suffering damages only.
$1 million premises liability settlement during trial: Electrocution. Our client was shopping at a clothing store and when she raised her arm to try on a shirt, her hand touched a light bulb socket that was unprotected and she was electrocuted. The electrical shock caused her to develop a condition known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD). This caused almost permanent damage to the nerves in her arm. A jury had been selected and the trial was about to begin when the defendant paid its entire insurance policy to resolve the case.
$1 million settlement: failure to diagnose a heart attack. Our client went to the emergency room with chest pain and sweating, which are classic symptoms of a heart attack. Even though the ER doctor called a cardiologist, the heart doctor didn’t show up for hours. The patient had a heart attack while waiting for treatment in the hospital’s emergency room.
$1 million settlement: Failure to diagnose ovarian cancer. Our client always had a fear she would get ovarian cancer, and as a result, religiously went to the gynecologist for tests. And even though this specialist was seeing the cysts on her ovaries growing and becoming “complex” (a dangerous finding for ovarian cancer) no further testing was ever ordered. Ultimately, our client developed her worst nightmare – ovarian cancer. The defendant paid $1 million to settle the case to avoid a trial.
$1 million settlement: failure to diagnose a brain tumor. Our client was complaining of headaches and underwent a brain scan or CT scan of the brain. The radiologist misread the film, so the brain tumor continued to grow to the point that it became an incurable and inoperable brain cancer.
Cohen v Gulf Oil – first $1 million verdict in PA and a bench trial - auto accident. Beasley lawyers represented an attorney in Philadelphia who was rear-ended in a motor vehicle accident (MVA) and suffered significant neck injuries as a result of the accident.
$850,000 settlement: improper pelvic surgery causing incontinence. Our client required surgery to repair a fistula in between her vagina and her rectum. Rather than correcting this connection (the fistula), the surgeon caused her to become incontinent of stool or feces, which passed through her vagina requiring her to undergo four additional surgeries to repair the mistake.
$800,000 verdict: Damage to eye muscles causing permanent strabismus during sinus surgery. Dave Moncrief was a graphic designer who started to suffer from headaches. He went to his doctor, who suggested he see an Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) doctor to see if it was his sinuses that were causing his head pain. Even though the CT scan of his sinuses was basically normal, the doctor operated on his sinuses anyway. During the operation the doctor pushed the bone scraper through the sinus bone and into Dave Moncrief’s right eye socket, grabbing an eye muscle and causing damage to the nerve that controlled his eye movement. Mr. Moncrief was left with permanent double vision and an eye that always points to the right side. The case was brought in Chester County, a very conservative county that hasn’t had a favorable plaintiff malpractice verdict in years, and the firm got Dave and his wife an $800,000.00 verdict.
$750,000.00 settlement for birth injury resulting in an infant’s death. Our clients were at the hospital having their first child when, unfortunately, the baby required forceps to help with the delivery. The resident doctor improperly placed the forceps on the child’s head, crushing the baby’s fragile skull. After about one month of suffering, the child passed away.
Friedman v. Terrance Malloy, M.D.: $650,000 verdict: Failure to properly insert a penis implant and failure to diagnose. We represented a physician who suffered from impotence after having his prostate removed. He and his wife waited five years to be …
$600,000 settlement for inadequate security. We represented a family whose house was broken into and burglarized after a prisoner escaped from a local prison. We sued the security guard company and obtained this significant settlement for this family.
$500,000 settlement during trial: Failure to diagnose testicular torsion and loss of testicle. Our client went to the hospital with pain in his left testicle, but when he went there, rather than a doctor reading the ultrasound images and results to see if his testicle was twisted, a tech interpreted the scan. Unfortunately, the technician misread the images and it led to a failure to diagnose and treat a testicle that was twisted. The delay in diagnosing the testicular torsion and lack of blood flow to the testicle caused our client to lose his testicle. We tried this case for only a few days before the defendants paid $500,000.00 to settle the case.
Attorney Lane Jubb won a seven-figure medical malpractice arbitration award in New Jersey for a case involving the death of a four year old child.
Attorney Lane Jubb has represented many physicians when they themselves receive substandard medical care. He achieved a six-figure monetary settlement for a young doctor in a medical malpractice case involving allegations of failed orthopedic surgery and poor post-operative management in a well-known orthopedic center in Montgomery County.
Attorney Lane Jubb achieved several seven-figure settlements from multiple obstetrical providers and a Berks County Hospital in a medical malpractice case pertaining to an undiagnosed labor complication and delayed neonatal care of an infant, who suffered hypoxic ischemic injuries and catastrophic brain damage.
Attorney Lane Jubb recently achieved a large confidential settlement in Oregon for a man who sustained permanent blindness following open heart surgery. Lane alleged the acute blood volume loss, hypotension, and temporary systemic hypoxic ischemia caused Posterior Optic Ischemic Neuropathy and permanent blindness.
Attorney Lane Jubb represented the Estate a 34 year old airline pilot who was tragically killed as a passenger in a plane crash in Northeastern, Pennsylvania. The aircraft crashed near Stroudsburg, PA. The case settled for all available insurance policy limits.
Obtained a confidential six-figure settlement in a New Jersey sexual assault case on behalf of a client who, as a child, was assaulted and abused when attending a sleep-away summer camp in Pennsylvania.
In a New Jersey slip-and-fall case, our firm obtained a confidential six-figure settlement on behalf of a client whose injuries required her to undergo orthopedic surgery after falling at a roller skating rink and fracturing her ankle.
In a Pennsylvania medical malpractice case, our firm obtained a confidential six-figure arbitration award on behalf of a mother who sustained life-altering and catastrophic injuries during an emergent C-Section, as a direct result of her obstetrician’s negligence.
In a Pennsylvania medical malpractice case, our firm obtained a confidential six-figure settlement on behalf of a wife and her late husband, who died as a result of a hospital’s failure to administer his anticoagulant medication.
In a Pennsylvania motor vehicle case, our lawyers obtained a confidential settlement just under six-figures after the defendant driver’s insurance exhausted nearly all of the applicable coverage to settle the case.
Confidential 7-figure settlement for a woman who underwent a double mastectomy. When her breasts were removed the lump was found to be benign.
Confidential 7-figure settlement for a mother and newborn due to mismanaged labor which resulted in a ruptured uterus, cerebral palsy for the child, and damage to the mother’s pelvis, with incontinence and pelvic pain.
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