Category: In the News

On June 11, 2019, Jonathan Turner, 35, visited an urgent care center in Philadelphia, complaining of chest pain and accompanying cardiac symptoms. The doctor he saw there performed an EKG (which showed nothing abnormal), diagnosed him with atypical chest pain, and recommended he schedule a follow-up visit at the family practice next door in a […]

Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck attorneys Frederic Eisenberg and Brian Hall recently secured a confidential arbitration verdict for $1,775,000 in a medical malpractice case that cost our client her life. Our client was 23 years old, with a good job at a local utility, who was working toward her business degree in night school. […]

Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck, P.C. shareholders Dan Jeck and Joshua B. Schwartz recently confidentially settled for $14,000,000 a medical malpractice action they pursued against a neurosurgeon and hospital for the negligent performance of an endovascular embolization surgical procedure to seal off a brain aneurysm. Due to the improper catheter position at a location […]

Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck attorneys Frederic Eisenberg and Brian Hall recently confidentially settled for nearly $1,000,000 a lawsuit on behalf of a client who suffered a head injury after being discharged from a hospital. The case, which was brought in a suburban county outside of Philadelphia, concerned a 26-year-old woman who was left […]

On April 27, Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck shareholders Nancy Winkler and Dan Jeck presented a program titled “Proving Permanent Injuries” to New Jersey Association for Justice members during the organization’s Boardwalk Seminar 2023 event. During their program, Nancy and Dan, along with co-presenter Mark S. Wagner, Ph.D., ABN, FACPN, ABVE, explored techniques lawyers […]

Late Thursday, July 1, 2021, the Boy Scouts of America and its local councils announced they had reached a historic settlement with survivors of sex abuse allegedly committed by Boy Scouts scoutmasters and other Boy Scouts representatives. Settlement negotiations with the Boy Scouts, its local councils, their insurers, and sponsoring and chartering organizations, have been ongoing almost from the day Eisenberg Rothweiler, along with its co-counsel in Abused in Scouting, filed a sex abuse lawsuit against the Boy Scouts in August 2019.

With hundreds of men and boys looking to sue the shuttered Glen Mills Schools, a Philadelphia judge has agreed to consolidate the litigation into a mass tort program. On June 15, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Arnold New issued a one-paragraph order granting a motion seeking to consolidate litigation against the school, where boys and young men were alleged to have been abused by staffers and fellow students for decades.

As attorneys begin reckoning with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the legal profession, one question is on everyone’s mind: When will courts be able to hold jury trials again? When it came to the decision to officially suspend jury trials another three months, Fox said the court arrived at the date with a lot of input from Administrative Judge Jacqueline Allen, who, Fox said, was working backward to estimate how long it might take to address all the known unknowns. “

Earlier this week, The Philadelphia Inquirer published a front-page story about the all-time high number of suicides in Pennsylvania prisons. In his mother’s lawsuit against the prison’s officials and corrections officers, she alleges that the defendants violated Christopher’s Eighth Amendment constitutional rights by being deliberately and recklessly indifferent to his medical needs.

Recently, the Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy, in part because of the lawsuits filed by attorneys from Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck, P. C. , and the Abused in Scouting team on behalf of their clients who allege they were sexually abused by Boy Scouts of America scoutmasters.