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Our Case Results

Over $2 Billion Won on Behalf of our Injured Clients.

Over $2 Billion Awarded on Behalf of our Injured Clients.
Personal Injury
$907,000,000
$907,000,000

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.

The largest judgment ever against a single individual, against Ira Einhorn for the murder of his girlfriend, Holly Maddux.
Personal Injury
$104,000,000
$104,000,000

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.

$104 million for September 11th victims, the first September 11th verdict.
Medical Malpractice
$100,000,000
$100,000,000

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.

One of the largest medical malpractice verdict in Pennsylvania history.
Medical Malpractice
$55,000,000
$55,000,000

Gault v. Norwood: 2nd largest medical malpractice verdict in history. We obtained this record setting verdict just weeks after being awarded the $100 million verdict. This case was against the world famous cardiothoracic heart surgeon, William Norwood, M.D., who performed an unauthorized surgical procedure on Stephen Gault, rendering him severely brain damaged and in permanent need of lifelong care. A beautiful little boy was born healthy, with a small narrowing in the aorta, the blood vessel that leaves the baby’s heart and goes to the body. This condition is known as a “Coarctation of the Aorta” and it requires a simple operation through the rib cage to easily correct it. He also had a small hole in his heart that was closing on its own and all of his doctors reported it was a non-issue. Stephen was taken to the pediatric heart surgeon to repair the Aorta, but instead of doing the procedure that the parents were told was going to be done, the doctor did an additional procedure to also fix the hole in the child’s heart. That procedure required the doctors stop the baby’s heart and also stop all blood flow in his body. To do this they had to cool his body to about 55 degrees Fahrenheit to ensure the body was cold and to protect the brain. Unfortunately when they cooled him they did it too fast and the brain was still warm when the blood flow was stopped. When they woke him up after the surgery, he had a massive seizure that left him unable to walk, talk, see or care for himself. We obtained a $55 million verdict on behalf of this child to ensure he would always be cared for.

2nd largest medical malpractice verdict in history.
Medical Malpractice
$43,500,000
$43,500,000

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.

$43.5 million verdict for malpractice against former Eagles captain Chris Maragos.
Birth Injury
$37,000,000
$37,000,000

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.

Jim Beasley, Sr. and Marsha Santangelo tried a six-week-long medical negligence case on behalf of a brain injured child.
Complex Litigation
$34,000,000
$34,000,000

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.

The largest defamation award in Pennsylvania history.
Aviation Accidents
$29,000,000
$29,000,000

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.

Record setting verdict for an airplane crash that involved a seat defect in a Cessna aircraft.
Medical Malpractice
$20,500,000
$20,500,000

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.

Our firm used all its resources to obtain a highly publicized $20.5 million verdict for the family of a teenage woman.
Medical Malpractice
$20,000,000
$20,000,000
Personal Injury
$16,250,000
$16,250,000

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.

We were able to invest over $400,000.00 in costs to prepare this file, allowing our attorneys to enter the courtroom with no stone unturned.
Medical Malpractice
$15,000,000
$15,000,000

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.

Attorney Barbara Axelrod successfully handled the post-trial appeals in this case, allowing The Beasley Firm to hold on to the verdict.
Dram Shop Recovery
$13,000,000
$13,000,000

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.

The Beasley Firm represented the family of a man who was hit head-on by a drunk driver.
Birth Injury
$12,600,000
$12,600,000
After two days of deliberations the jury awarded $1.5 million in lost earnings, $3 million in pain and suffering, and $8.1 million in future medical expenses.
Trucking Accident
$12,000,000
$12,000,000

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.

The Beasley Firm was able to successfully resolve a case when triplet children were hit by a dump truck while riding a bus and get some closure to this horrific accident for this family.
Premises Liability
$11,000,000
$11,000,000

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.

$11 million verdict for failure to ensure working smoke detectors were present in the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) houses.
Medical Malpractice
$9,750,000
$9,750,000
Jim Beasley Jr. was asked to represent a man who was blinded after a heart transplant.
Aviation Accidents
$8,000,000
$8,000,000
Wrongful Death/Malpractice
$7,500,000
$7,500,000

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.

Medical Malpractice
$7,000,000
$7,000,000
Auto Accident
$6,600,000
$6,600,000
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.
Blindness Recovery
$6,500,000
$6,500,000
Jim Beasley Jr was asked by the family of a child who ended up blind due to a delay in cancer in his eyes.
Paralysis Recovery
$5,500,000
$5,500,000
Pediatric Heart Surgery Recovery
$5,500,000 (2)
$5,500,000
Jim Beasley Jr. led the Firm’s prosecution of the physicians and hospital that caused this child’s brain damage during this complex and challenging heart surgery.
Aviation Accidents
$5,400,000
$5,400,000
Birth Injury
$5,000,000
$5,000,000
Premises Liability
$5,000,000 (2)
$5,000,000
$5 million verdict for a security guard who was injured at the Philadelphia Sports Complex:
Paraplegia Injury
$5,000,000 (3)
$5,000,000
Medical Malpractice
$5,000,000 (4)
$5,000,000
Medical Malpractice
$4,500,000
$4,500,000
Premises Liability
$4,500,000 (2)
$4,500,000

$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.

Aviation Accident
$4,500,000 (3)
$4,500,000
Medical Malpractice
$4,400,000
$4,400,000
Jones v Lovrinic: $4.4 million verdict: Failure to diagnose tongue cancer.
Medical Malpractice
$4,000,000
$4,000,000
$4 million settlement: Failure to diagnose a post-operative bleed, and the patient bled to death in the recovery room.
Birth Injury
$3,900,000
$3,900,000

$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 …

$3.9 million settlement during trial: Prenatal/Birth negligence: failure to deliver baby showing distress on Fetal Monitoring Strips
Medical Malpractice
$3,300,000
$3,300,000
Medical Malpractice
$3,100,000
$3,100,000
Medical Malpractice
$3,100,000 (2)
$3,100,000
Medical Malpractice
$3,000,000
$3,000,000
Birth Injury
$3,000,000 (2)
$3,000,000
Personal Injury
$3,000,000 (3)
$3,000,000

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.

A waitress was awarded $3 million by a Philadelphia jury for an unwanted kiss from a restaurant patron.
Medical Malpractice
$3,000,000 (4)
$3,000,000
Failed Spinal Injection
$3,000,000 (5)
$3,000,000
Failure to Treat Spinal Infection
$3,000,000 (6)
$3,000,000
Medical Malpractice
$3,000,000 (7)
$3,000,000
Birth Injury
$2,250,000
$2,250,000
Medical Malpractice
$1,950,000
$1,950,000
Defective Helmet Injury
$1,900,000
$1,900,000
Product Liability
$1,900,000 (2)
$1,900,000

$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.

Medical Malpractice
$1,700,000
$1,700,000
Medical Malpractice
$1,700,000 (2)
$1,700,000
Medical Malpractice
$1,600,000
$1,600,000
Trucking Accident
$1,600,000 (2)
$1,600,000
We represented the family of the victim who was killed after being rear-ended by a tractor-trailer in New Jersey.
Medical Malpractice
$1,500,000
$1,500,000
Medical Malpractice
$1,500,000 (2)
$1,500,000
Medical Malpractice
$1,500,000 (3)
$1,500,000
Medical Malpractice
$1,500,000 (4)
$1,500,000
Medical Malpractice
$1,450,000
$1,450,000
Medical Malpractice
$1,400,000
$1,400,000

$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.

Medical Malpractice
$1,400,000 (2)
$1,400,000

$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.

Premises Liability
$1,400,000 (3)
$1,400,000

$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.

Premises Liability
$1,000,000
$1,000,000

$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.

Medical Malpractice
$1,000,000 (2)
$1,000,000
Medical Malpractice
$1,000,000 (3)
$1,000,000
Medical Malpractice
$1,000,000 (4)
$1,000,000
Auto Accident
$1,000,000 (5)
$1,000,000
Medical Malpractice
$850,000
$850,000
Medical Malpractice
$800,000
$800,000
Birth Injury
$750,000
$750,000
Medical Malpractice
$650,000
$650,000
Friedman v. Terrance Malloy, M.D.: $650,000 verdict: Failure to properly insert a penis implant and failure to diagnose.
Premises Liability
$600,000
$600,000

$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.

Medical Malpractice
$500,000
$500,000
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