Accident & Personal Injury
Stark & Stark’s Accident & Personal Injury group is one of the select few firms in Pennsylvania and New Jersey that has both the depth of resources and level of experience necessary to personally represent each of our clients so they may achieve the maximum compensation possible. Our multi-disciplinary personal injury group combines the comprehensive experience of its lawyers, nurse practitioners and para-professionals to represent individuals in a wide variety of personal injury matters throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and New York.
Careful examination and preparation for trial has been, and will continue to be, the cornerstone of our practice. Our attorneys and support staff strive to meet each client’s needs through careful attention to detail and unparalleled dedication to provide effective and caring service to injured victims. Stark & Stark’s attorneys maintain a nationwide network of experts and resources in order to provide each client with the highest level of service throughout the life of their case.
We regularly represent clients who have been injured as a result of medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, birth injuries, defective products, car accidents, construction accidents, motorcycle accidents, on the job injuries, defective drugs, and toxic contamination.
The accident and personal injury attorneys of Stark & Stark help victims and their families obtain cash settlements for medical expenses, lost wages, and pain & suffering.
Experience
- Recovered $6,000,000 for a Philadelphia child who is severely delayed in both receptive and expressive language skills, has no bowel or bladder control and requires assistance in feeding, bathing and dressing and will continue to need assistance, supervision and support 24-hours a day for the duration of his life due to a delay in the diagnosis of non-progressive encephalitis, secondary to herpes and encephalitis.
- Won a $3,440,000 result against a Philadelphia doctor and national pharmacy chain for a young man rendered permanently impotent by a drug overdose.
- Recovered $3,000,000 on behalf of a 4 year-old child who bled to death shortly after a tonsillectomy in Philadelphia.
- Obtained $3,000,000 for a Montgomery County child who suffered from an injury during birth, which caused cerebral palsy.
- Obtained a $3,000,000 verdict for a Philadelphia woman who fell at a grocery store and suffered from traumatic epilepsy.
- Recovered $3,000,000 for a Levittown man who suffered a traumatic brain injury after contact with electric power lines while trimming a backyard tree.
- Recovered $2,900,000 for a mother and daughter injured, and a minor son killed, in a tractor-trailer accident.
- Recovered $2,000,000 in Philadelphia for the family of a woman who died after an aortic valve replacement.
- Secured a $1,600,000 settlement from Peddler’s Village, Lahaska, Bucks County, after they served a minor alcohol at his sister’s wedding. The intoxicated minor killed our client in a car accident shortly after leaving the wedding.
- Obtained $1,150,000 for an Allentown man blinded in one eye after being hit by a golf ball.
- Recovered $1,000,000 for the family of a motorcyclist killed by a vehicle that went through a stop sign.
- Reached a $1,000,000 settlement for a Bucks County woman who suffered brachial plexus injury in a car accident.
- Recovered $975,000 for the family of an elderly Montgomery County woman who suffocated in a hospital after being improperly restrained.
- Recovered $900,000 for a man who required neck and back surgery following an accident with a tractor-trailer.
- Recovered $850,000 for the family of a Philadelphia man who had complained to his doctors of blood in his urine and was not properly diagnosed and treated for kidney cancer.
- Recovered an $800,000 settlement for the family of a Philadelphia resident who underwent surgery to repair esophageal reflux, a hiatal hernia, and gallstones, and later died after doctors failed to diagnosis the patient with a pulmonary embolism after surgery.
- Obtained a $500,000 settlement for a Carbon County resident who suffered traumatic brain injuries, post concussive syndrome and depression after being struck by a tractor-trailer who lost control due to driving at excessive speeds on the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
- Received a $500,000 settlement for a Bucks County resident who slipped and fell on the elevated dance floor of a nightclub. The staff of the club had been instructed by the club owner to remove the elevated floor. Their failure to do so caused our client to break several bones and extreme debilitating nerve damage.
- Obtained a $175,000 settlement for an 82-year old Bucks County woman suffered 2 fractured ribs, a fractured shoulder and a badly bruised right arm as well as short-term memory loss and 50 stitches to her head after an automobile crash with a tractor-trailer.
- Obtained a $150,000 settlement for a Bucks County resident who slipped and fell on water which leaked through the wall of the Franklin Mills Mall after mall management had known for weeks of the issue and did not correct the problem.