Cases
Significant Representative Matters: Significant experience with numerous catastrophic tractor/trailer accidents including over 50 fatalities, multiple traumatic brain injury cases, paraplegia, quadriplegia cases,
right leg above the knee amputation.
Summary judgment for trucking company whose driver caused a double fatality on the highway
was later convicted of vehicular homicide in a collateral case involving traumatic brain injury
total disability sustained by a tow/vehicle removal specialist who was struck in the head
suffered a skull fracture when wreckage he was cutting for removal shifted. The court agreed that neither duty nor foreseeable causation existed.
Successfully h
led three tractor trailer under-ride cases, one involving death
two involving traumatic brain injuries.
H
led coverage tender in multiple injury
multiple vehicle tractor/trailer accidents including the fire entrapment deaths of an engaged couple.
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led a tractor trailer/van collision involving death of a mother, leaving the father a quadriplegic, with significant injuries to four children, caused by an inexperienced CDL driver with permanent lease/trip lease issues.
Represented a large distribution company involving alleged negligent retention of an independent contractor in a dedicated fleet situation. The accident resulted in a multiple vehicle collision
an infant burned to death.
Defense of trucking company whose truck lost a trailer dolly being towed behind a single 28' pup trailer. The detached dolly caused two deaths
one permanent injury, crushed legs.
Representative Cases: Racz v. R.T. Merryman Trucking, 1995 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3840 (USDC-EDPA)
Hughes v. Hemingway Transport, Inc., 539 F. Supp. 130 (ED Pa 1982)
Published Works: Limited Tort Proof: Get the Signed Waiver Election Form!! , Defense Digest, Vol. 20, No. 4, December 2014
Pennsylvania Supreme Court 'States' The Rule On Interstate Shipments, Defense Digest, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2003
'Going My Way?' Venue Not Created By Post-Accident Transportation Of Victim, Defense Digest, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 2002
Serious Injury Under the MVFRL: Serious Disagreement, Defense Digest, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1998
Forum Non Conveniens Transfer of Venue Forecast: Continued Cloudy, Defense Digest, Vol. 2, No. 6, 1996
Third Circuit Review: Evans v. Buchannan 23, Villanova Law Review 782, 1977
