Personal Injury Verdicts & Settlements

As one of the most respected Philadelphia personal injury law firms, we are dedicated to obtaining the best outcome possible for each of our clients.

Highlights of Our Success

• $5,000,000 - Police Misconduct (More info) Settlement for victims who were sexually assaulted by a police officer whose supervisors did not properly discipline him for prior misconduct or properly monitor him following discovery of his deviant sexual propensities.
• $3,800,000 - Construction Accident (More info) Settlement for the family of a union glazier that died during a scaffolding accident on a construction project at the Camden County Community College. Our Philadelphia personal injury attorneys successfully prosecuted negligence claims against the general contractor, Turner Construction, as well as negligence and products liability claims the scaffold manufacturer, Fraco.
• $3,000,000 – Longshoreman Accident (More info) Wrongful death of a longshoreman killed when crushed due to negligent stacking of 10 ton steel slabs and improper maintenance of Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• $2,500,000 – Medical Malpractice (More info) Verdict for family of 25-year-old man who committed suicide in psychiatric hospital after being involuntarily committed. Hospital staff failed to place patient under constant observation as required.
• $2,400,000 – Medical Malpractice (More info) Negligent administration of Pitocin by medical resident resulting in uterine rupture and severe brain damage to newborn child.
• $2,200,000 – Medical Malpractice (More info) Settlement secured on behalf of a 35 year old man who suffered brain damage as a result of his physicians' failure to recognize that he was experiencing bleeding in his brain. The plaintiff was discharged from the hospital and ultimately suffered brain damage from the uncontrolled bleeding.
• $1,900,000 – Construction Accident (More info) Bulldozer accident at construction site resulting in the severing and reattachment of a soil technician's leg. The firm’s trial attorneys successfully pursued a claim for the soil technician against the general contractor and the excavation subcontractor in the United States District Court – Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
• $1,800,000 – Workplace Accident (More info) Closed head injury and severe leg injury to a truck driver in the receiving area of a major corporate defendant as a result of the defendant providing the truck driver with a defective ladder to use while securing cargo.
• $1,700,000 - Workplace Accident (More info) The firm's personal injury attorneys secured a substantial settlement for a commercial truck driver that suffered debilitating leg fractures and injuries in a loading dock accident at a major furniture retailer's distribution center.
• $1,725,000 – Medical Malpractice (More info) Settlement secured for the family of a 47-year-old woman who died in the hospital after her respiratory distress went untreated by hospital staff. For four hours, doctors and nurses failed to treat her breathing problems, resulting in respiratory and cardiac arrest, brain damage, and her death one year later.
• $1,600,000 – Medical Malpractice (More info) Settlement reached by our personal injury attorneys for the family of a 38 year old woman who died after being admitted to a local hospital for treatment of an asthma attack. Though her condition required transfer to an intensive care unit, this was not done. She subsequently suffered a heart attack and died.
• $1,550,000 – Auto Accident / Roadway Defect (More info) Settlement recovery in defective roadway case brought on behalf of a college student that was seriously injured when he was ejected from his Jeep Wrangler during a rollover accident in New Jersey. The firm’s trial attorneys successfully pursued a claim against the Township for failing to maintain and repair the roadway and inadequate policies and procedures for inspecting roadways to eliminate dangerous conditions.
• $1,400,000 – Medical Malpractice (More info) Settlement for the wife and family of a 59 year old man who was improperly discharged from a hospital after his physicians failed to recognize that he suffered a minor heart while hospitalized. Several days after leaving the hospital, the patient died following a massive heart attack.
• $1,200,000 – Medical Malpractice (More info) Jury verdict in medical malpractice case brought on behalf of a family of a 68-year-old woman whose family doctor failed to diagnose throat cancer. Had the cancer been diagnosed three months earlier, she would have survived.

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If you suffered a serious injury or the death of a loved one, the exceptional Pennsylvania and New Jersey personal injury and wrongful death lawyers at the firm of Sheridan & Murray can help you receive the compensation you are entitled to under the law.

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