Todd A. Schoenhaus

Todd A. Schoenhaus is a Philadelphia personal injury attorney with nearly 30 years of experience. He concentrates his practice on product liability, premises liability, construction accidents, vehicle collisions, and medical malpractice cases. Todd also has experience litigating cases involving civil rights and abuse claims.

As part of our legal team, Todd is committed to fighting for justice on behalf of injured persons and their families. He is meticulous in his investigations of catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases and does not back down in negotiations or the courtroom, having achieved countless seven- and eight-figure recoveries.

“We can’t make lives whole, but we can make them better.”

Selected Results

$265 Million Settlement in Amtrak Train No. 188 Derailment

In May 2015, Amtrak train No. 188, traveling to New York City, sped around a curve in Philadelphia and derailed, causing over 200 injuries, including eight deaths. An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board concluded the crash was caused by the engineer mistakenly accelerating around the curve instead of decelerating.

Working as part of the Plaintiff’s Management Committee to handle the Multi-District Litigation, Todd and Fred Eisenberg were able to secure a historic $265 million settlement to ensure that all victims would be compensated for their injuries and losses in a timely manner.

It is believed to be the largest such settlement in railway history.

$24.8 Million Verdict in Construction Accident Case

Todd was part of the Eisenberg Winkler Jeck Schwartz Schoenhaus & Sherry team that secured a $24.8 million jury verdict in a construction case where our client, working alone on the roof of an auto body shop, tripped and fell 25 feet through a skylight onto the concrete floor below. As a result of this accident, he suffered severe and permanent brain damage.

$12.75 Million Settlement in Automobile Accident Case (Confidential)

Todd and Nancy Winkler secured a confidential $12.75 million settlement in an automobile accident case where our client suffered catastrophic quadriplegic injuries when she was a passenger in a vehicle that was rear-ended by a truck as her vehicle was pulling over onto a highway shoulder.

$9.25 Million Settlement in Construction Accident Case (Confidential)

Todd and Nancy Winkler secured a confidential $9.25 million settlement in a case where our client fell from the second story of a newly constructed home while attempting to carry a large piece of sheetrock across an unguarded opening. Our client struck his head on the ground and suffered skull and facial fractures, hematomas, and other catastrophic injuries, leaving him permanently disabled with a traumatic brain injury.

$9 Million Settlement in Automobile Accident Case (Confidential)

– Todd and Fred Eisenberg secured a $9 million settlement as trial was set to begin in a case where our client’s car was struck in a head-on collision with a tractor-trailer when the truck crossed the center line. The truck driver had a history of medical issues and safety violations, was overly fatigued, and should not have been permitted by his employer to operate a commercial vehicle. Our client, a single mother, suffered a traumatic brain injury and broke multiple bones, rendering her permanently disabled.

$5.5 Million Settlement in a Premises Liability Case (Confidential)

Todd and Nancy Winkler secured a confidential $5.5 million recovery in a case where our three-year-old client was traumatically brain-injured after falling from an unsafe window in an affordable housing apartment building.

$4.7 Million Jury Verdict in Undiagnosed and Untreated Coronary Artery Disease Case

Todd and Dan Jeck secured a $4.7 million jury verdict in a case where our client died because of undiagnosed and untreated coronary artery disease weeks after multiple visits to an urgent care center that did not refer him to a cardiologist despite his complaining of chest pain and other cardiac symptoms.

$3.35 Million Settlement in Prison Suicide Civil Rights Case

Todd and Nancy Winkler secured a $3.35 million settlement for the parents of a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections inmate who hung himself while on suicide watch. Facing allegations of constitutional violations for a deliberate indifference to serious medical needs, the Department paid a then-record amount and also agreed to certain policy changes.

$2.5 Million Verdict in Medical Malpractice Case

Todd and Joshua Schwartz secured a $2.5 million jury verdict for the family of a 75- year-old double amputee who died after falling out of his wheelchair following an eye examination involving dilation and an antibiotic ointment. Todd and Josh convinced the jury that the patient should not have been discharged with temporarily impaired eyesight, given his wheelchair dependence and underlying amputations.

Education and Experience in Personal Injury Law

Todd graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. He then earned his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in December 1996. While in school, he served as an Associate Editor of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, and received several writing and advocacy awards.

Before joining our law firm in 2012, Todd was a litigation partner in an international law firm, where he spent a decade litigating a wide array of tort matters on behalf of individuals and companies throughout the country.

Lectures

Todd has frequently lectured on an assortment of topics, including third-party liability for workplace injuries, proving premises liability and the traumatic injuries that result, the historic $256 million Amtrak settlement, when and how to seek punitive damages, techniques to help win the tough worksite case, and insurance brokers’ liability for breaching the duty to advise.