Peter Newman
About Peter Newman
Peter M. Newman represents clients in catastrophic personal injury cases including medical malpractice, product liability, complex personal injury, and wrongful death actions. He also handles claims against insurance companies for bad faith in adjusting or defending claims and for unreasonably denying disability benefits. Peter joined Feldman Shepherd after practicing at another prominent Philadelphia plaintiffs' firm. He earned his J.D. cum laude from Tulane University Law School and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and before multiple federal courts.
Notable case results
For a 37-year-old woman rendered quadriplegic during an epidural steroid injection
For brain injury during hip replacement surgery
For a child who sustained severe neurologic injuries from physicians' failure to diagnose twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
