Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky
About the firm
Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky is a Philadelphia-based personal injury firm founded in 1998, known for securing some of the largest verdicts and settlements in Pennsylvania history, including a $227 million Salvation Army collapse settlement and a $160 million U-Haul settlement. The firm handles catastrophic injury cases exclusively, covering construction accidents, medical malpractice, trucking accidents, and mass casualty disasters.
Notable results
Saltz Mongeluzzi and Bendesky joined the plaintiffs' leadership team that secured a $1.2 billion settlement for the families and survivors of 98 people killed when Champlain Towers South collapsed in Surfside, Florida on June 24, 2021 -- the largest construction-disaster settlement in U.S. history.
Robert Mongeluzzi helped secure a $265 million federal settlement on behalf of more than 125 claimants injured or killed when Amtrak Train 188 derailed at 106 mph on a Philadelphia curve in May 2015.
A Pennsylvania-record $227 million settlement resolved claims brought by 19 victims of the June 2013 Center City building collapse, in which an improperly braced wall fell during demolition and crushed the adjoining Salvation Army thrift store, killing seven people.
Four construction workers were killed and more than 30 injured when five floors of a parking garage under construction at the Tropicana Casino Resort in Atlantic City collapsed in October 2003, leading to what attorneys described as the largest construction-accident settlement in U.S. history at that time.
A Philadelphia jury awarded $75.6 million to Joseph Tuski, a highway construction flagman left quadriplegic when a drunk driver who had just served himself alcohol at the bar he managed struck him at 40 mph and fled the scene.
Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky secured a $65 million class-action settlement against Lehigh Valley Health Network after a 2023 BlackCat ransomware attack exposed intimate medical images and private health records of more than 134,000 patients.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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