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…

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…