MyPhillyLawyer has just opened its first-ever office in Northeast Philadelphia, far from the bustle of Center City, where we can now begin serving our clients in the neighborhoods where they live and work. This is the first time since the birth of our founding law firm in 1976 that MyPhillyLawyer has opened an office away…

A Philadelphia woman has been awarded $2.4 million in compensation by a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury after she was severely injured in a bicycle accident on Broad Street as she headed home from classes at Temple University on Feb. 23, 2011. The woman, Ashley McKean, who was 24 years old at the time of…

An 11-year-old boy and his mother have been awarded $14.5 million in damages by an Ohio jury in a medical malpractice lawsuit that dates back to the boy’s birth back in 2003. The boy, Alijah Jones, now 11, suffered a brain hemorrhage when his delivery was allegedly delayed by medical staff at MetroHealth Medical Center…

Joyce R. Meeks had moved her family away from the mean streets of Chicago in 2000 to Lincoln, Neb., so they could live in a safer place. For more than a decade, she and her family enjoyed the quieter lifestyle in Lincoln. Thirteen years later, tragedy struck on June 25, 2013 as she was driving…

A Montgomery County woman has been awarded a $1 million jury verdict in connection with a car crash nine years ago that severely injured both of her legs. The crash, which occurred in Lehigh County in February 2005, caused serious knee injuries to Christy Carassai when the car she was riding in struck another vehicle…

There have been more than 60,000 lawsuits filed over transvaginal mesh (TVM) and bladder slings, medical device products that are used to address stress urinary incontinence in women. Devices are made of strips of surgical mesh and are inserted through one incision in the vagina and two in the abdomen. The plaintiffs in the lawsuits…