A Pennsylvania judge has ordered Nationwide Insurance to pay an $18 million “bad faith” damage award to a family after the company allegedly had the family’s severely damaged vehicle repaired even after an outside appraisal firm deemed that the vehicle should be replaced for safety. The plaintiffs, Berks County residents Daniel and Sheryl Berg, “took…

A 27-year-old man who was scheduled to play professional soccer in Colombia after college has received a $3.34 million medical malpractice verdict from a Philadelphia jury to compensate him after a problematic groin surgery left him unable to pursue his soccer career. The former athlete, Juan Duque, was injured during surgery in 2009 which left…

As he drove his 1999 Acura Integra along a Maryland road in May 2010, a tire on Carlos Martinez’s car blew out after striking a nail, causing the car to veer off the road, go into a ditch and roll over multiple times. The crash, which occurred at about 33 mph, caused catastrophic injuries to…

When Jeanne Ellis went to a hospital emergency room in October 2006 in Boston complaining of a persistent cough, a doctor ordered a chest X-ray and then sent her home with antibiotics to treat what he said was an upper respiratory infection. Thirteen months later, as her symptoms worsened, Ellis again went to the hospital,…

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…