Daniel Jeck

A shareholder at our firm with more than 30 years of courtroom trial experience and unparalleled results, senior litigator at the firm, Daniel Jeck, has tried and won seven- and eight-figure jury verdicts, and has litigated and tried a multitude of catastrophic injury cases in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.

In the early 1990’s, Daniel began his career and successfully obtained jury verdicts in medical malpractice and products liability cases for clients injured by physician and hospital malfeasance, and at construction sites by defectively designed equipment. Among other settlements and awards, at the beginning of his career, Daniel obtained a multimillion-dollar jury verdict for a patient who died after suffering a drop in blood pressure that went unrecognized and untreated following elective knee replacement surgery. In the early 2000’s, Daniel tried and obtained a jury verdict for a patient who suffered a lacerated sciatic nerve during hip replacement surgery, resulting in permanent debilitating nerve injuries.

The verdicts and awards continued. In the early 2000’s, Daniel obtained a $3 million jury verdict for a client who suffered injuries and died after an ATV accident, which occurred due to a defectively designed handlebar grip. He obtained a multimillion-dollar verdict for a young baby who suffered an Erbs palsy injury during a shoulder dystocia delivery.

In 2008, he secured an $11.2 million jury verdict against emergency medicine physicians who failed to diagnose and treat a brain tumor in a patient over the course of three hospital visits, culminating in permanent brain damage. At that time, it was one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts ever obtained in Philadelphia.

As his career advanced, so did his impressive results in a variety of complex cases. Through tireless work and perseverance, Daniel was able to determine the cause of catastrophic injury or death and achieve significant jury verdicts and settlements in cases where, for instance, corporate documents or medical records gave no indication as to what had really occurred.

Daniel held doctors accountable for an undiagnosed and untreated babesiosis parasitic infection from a tick bite, resulting in the death of a husband and father.

He tried and won a jury verdict in Camden, New Jersey, against an obstetrician who failed to recognize and treat an epidural infection after delivery.

He resolved a matter against another New Jersey obstetrician who failed to recognize and timely treat a placenta accreta, leading to the tragic and preventable death of a young mother during childbirth.

While specializing in medical malpractice, Daniel expanded his representation of victims of catastrophic wrongdoing over his career.

He litigated and settled a case for $6.79 million against an oil company and service station for inappropriately operating what was discovered as an unattended self-service gas pump, which sparked an explosion killing his teenage client.

He achieved an $8.35 million settlement for a contractor who was electrocuted when he inadvertently touched what was thought to have been a protected line while painting a house.

Daniel obtained an $8 million settlement against a renowned pharmaceutical company for the defective design of their chemical compounding equipment, which failed to recognize inappropriately and dangerously mixed Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN), which caused a catastrophic brain injury when administered to a young child.

He litigated and attained a $14 million settlement against a hospital system for what was determined to have been an institutional failure to properly monitor cardiac activity in post-operative patients.

More recent noteworthy results include an $8.9 million settlement against obstetricians who failed to recognize non-reassuring fetal heart monitoring consistent with cord occlusion during labor and to timely deliver an infant who suffered a hypoxic event.

In late 2023, as lead counsel, Daniel obtained a $4.7 million jury verdict for a young man who presented to his family doctor with cardiac complaints and was not referred for testing (or treated), and who ultimately died from a large clot in his heart.

In 2024, Daniel obtained a $14 million settlement for a patient who suffered a series of crippling strokes following the removal of a brain aneurysm.

In 2025, most significantly, Daniel secured a $54 million medical malpractice settlement against multiple providers and institutions in rural Pennsylvania, achieved after years of litigation and as trial approached for a client catastrophically injured by the failure to timely diagnose and treat a brain stem stroke, resulting in Locked-in Syndrome. This settlement is understood to be one of the largest medical malpractice settlements in Pennsylvania history.

“I think what separates us, is the determination and the drive to get to the truth—to get answers.”

Leadership in The Philadelphia Trial Lawyer Community

Daniel has and continues to be one of the leaders of the Plaintiff’s trial bar in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. Among his many other recognitions, Daniel recently served as President of the prestigious Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association (2020-21). He is currently the Chair of the Committee for a Better Tomorrow, the fundraising arm of the organization (2023-present).

During his presidency, he was instrumental in assisting the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas to return to trying civil cases safely and efficiently following the COVID-19 pandemic. A respected member of the bar, Daniel continues to sit on committees with the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas to work towards improving the judicial system. Daniel has been listed perennially on the Super Lawyers list and continues to be listed among the top attorneys in Medical Malpractice Law (2013 – present) by The Best Lawyers in America.

Academic Work and Community Involvement

Daniel has lectured and taught programs dedicated to trial advocacy at the Temple University School of Law and the Villanova School of Law. Over the past thirty years, he has frequently been asked to present, and has presented and coordinated, dozens of programs for his colleagues of the trial bar, including courses on case selection, deposition tactics, cross-examination at trial, breast cancer litigation, the MCARE Act, and how to maximize damages at trial.

Education and Experience with Medical Malpractice Cases

Born in Philadelphia, Daniel earned his B.A. degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1989. He received his J.D. from the Temple University School of Law in 1992.

Daniel also handles pro bono matters on behalf of the Philadelphia Bar Association. For 12 years, he volunteered and served as a basketball coach and commissioner for the Whitemarsh Youth Basketball League. For the past three decades, Daniel has served as a Board Member, President, and now advisor to the Beta Alumni Association of the Pennsylvania State University.