Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig
About the firm
Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig LLP is a Philadelphia-based personal injury firm founded in the 1980s that represents victims of catastrophic injury in medical malpractice, birth injury, motor vehicle accidents, defective products, construction accidents, and sexual abuse cases throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the United States. The firm has secured some of the largest verdicts and settlements in Pennsylvania and New Jersey history.
Notable results
A $160 million settlement -- the largest pre-verdict settlement in Pennsylvania court history -- resolved claims against U-Haul after an overfilled propane tank exploded at a North Philadelphia food truck, killing a mother and her teenage daughter and severely burning three others.
A Philadelphia jury found Pottstown Memorial Medical Center liable for a newborn's severe spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy after the hospital's outdated, unmaintained ultrasound equipment led a physician to incorrectly declare the baby dead, delaying an emergency cesarean section by 81 minutes.
Feldman Shepherd secured a combined $50 million settlement from IKEA on behalf of three families whose toddler sons were fatally crushed by MALM dressers, a result that preceded a nationwide recall of approximately 29 million chests and dressers.
Alan Feldman of Feldman Shepherd secured a $46 million settlement against IKEA on behalf of the family of a 2-year-old boy crushed by a MALM dresser in California, reported at the time as the largest child wrongful-death settlement in U.S. history.
Feldman Shepherd secured a $26.1 million settlement for the family of a man killed and a husband left with a traumatic brain injury when a tractor-trailer hit stopped traffic on Interstate 80 at more than 70 mph.
A Philadelphia jury held J.B. Hunt Transport 40% liable for catastrophic injuries to a roadside pedestrian after finding the freight broker failed to screen its independent-contractor driver, who was operating with a blood alcohol level more than four times the commercial legal limit.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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