A recent civil lawsuit in Pennsylvania alleges that a FedEx truck driver is liable for more than a dozen injuries and multiple deaths following a devastating Pennsylvania turnpike accident in 2020, according to news reports. According to the complaint, the truck driver might have avoided the crash if they weren’t wearing noise-canceling headphone...
Author: Stewart Eisenberg
Deadly Pennsylvania Turnpike Accident Caused by Noise Cancelling Headphones?
Ransomware Attack on Hospital Leads to Infant’s Death
Can I Sue for Medical Malpractice if I Was Harmed During a Clinical Trial?
Clinical trials are a great way to test new treatments and advance medicine. However, when healthcare providers are not careful, they may injure patients during a clinical trial. Our malpractice lawyers are here to help protect your rights if you’re injured during a clinical trial. What Is a Clinical Trial? A clinical trial tests a new medicine...
Tesla Autopilot: Does It Make Vehicles Safer… Or Not?
It seems like not a week passes without manufacturers and CEOs like Elon Musk saying how fully self-driving cars are just around the corner and are safer than human-operated vehicles. Nor are reports about such self-driving vehicles that uncommon. A post exposé is calling into question whether Autopilot is actually safer… or not. This is an issu...
Types of Truck Accidents: Blind Spot Accidents
According to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, there were 6,344 crashes involving heavy trucks statewide in a recent year, with 110 of those crashes involving at least one fatality. Many of these crashes are blind spot accidents, as trucks have more areas of low visibility compared to other vehicles. Truck drivers have a responsibil...
Temple University Beasley School of Law Names Its 2020–2021 Stewart J. Eisenberg Scholars
Daniel Craig and Carly Gubernick, two third-year students at Temple University Beasley School of Law, were recently named the school’s 2020–2021 Stewart J. Eisenberg Scholars. The scholarship, endowed by our own Stewart Eisenberg, is given annually to the Temple Law students who are most outstanding in trial advocacy. “What was then the Te...
Eisenberg Winkler Jeck Schwartz Schoenhaus & Sherry, P.C., Secures Record Settlement in Suicide at Prison
Nancy Winkler and Todd Schoenhaus recently settled a lawsuit for $3.35 million against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections on behalf of the parents of a man who died by suicide at a Pennsylvania state correctional institution. The settlement is the largest settlement ever paid by the Pennsylvania D.O.C. in a prison suicide case. The lawsu...
Seven-Figure Settlement Secured for Client Disfigured in Botched Breast Reduction Surgery
Dan Jeck and Josh Schwartz recently secured a seven-figure settlement for a client whose botched breast reduction surgery left her disfigured, permanently in pain, and emotionally scarred. Our client alleged that the surgeon who performed the procedure committed malpractice by failing to properly plan for it and by failing to properly address post-...
$109 Million Verdict in Medical Malpractice Suit
Woman Who Left Hospital without Hands or Feet Due to Botched Operation Receives $109 Million Verdict in Medical Malpractice Suit A woman’s routine trip to the hospital turned into a life-changing nightmare. According to Fox 13, Lisa-Marie Carter, a former Department of Defense analyst finally succeeded in holding her doctor liable for a mistake ...
Nancy Winkler and Todd Schoenhaus Discuss How to Litigate Prisoner Rights Cases
Eisenberg Winkler Jeck Schwartz Schoenhaus & Sherry, P.C., shareholder Nancy Winkler and partner Todd Schoenhaus participated in a webinar on December 11 titled, “On the Inside and Out: Excessive Force, Police Brutality and Prisoner Rights Cases.” The webinar, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, focused on strategies and techniq...
