Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Lawyers

Medical Malpractice Law

345 Market St, Kingston, PA 18704

David translated ten years of defending personal injury claims into a solo practice helping those who are injured in 2001. Since then, David has had the opportunity to grow the practice through the representation of hundreds of clients throughout eastern Pennsylvania. In 2005, David teamed up with Carl Guagliardo and the next year, Selingo Guagliardo, LLC was formed. The boutique personal injury and litigation practice handles major claims including trucking accidents, medical malpractice claims, insurance disputes, and insurance bad faith claims. David was certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by NBTA, a Pennsylvania Supreme Court accredited agency, in 1999, recertified in 2004, 2009 and 2014. He was elected as a Fellow in Litigation Counsel of America in 2008 and as a Senior Fellow in 2015. He attained certification as a Civil Pretrial Advocate in 2012 and was recertified in 2017. David is rated AV by Martindale Hubbell, the highest ranking available by his peers.

Medical Malpractice Law

1515 Market St, Suite 1100, Philadelphia, PA 19102

Eric H. Weitz practices law in Philadelphia with The Weitz Firm, LLC, handling catastrophic injury, medical negligence and commercial litigation matters. His earlier positions include both associate and firm-management roles. At Cozen & O’Connor, he worked as an associate from 1992 to 1994; later appointments included serving as of counsel to the Law Offices of Andrew D. Stern from 1998 to 2003. An associate position at Layser & Freiwald followed from 2003 to 2006. He subsequently served as co-managing partner of Messa & Associates between 2011 and 2016. His academic background began in communications. At Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Weitz majored in television, radio/film management and received his B.S., cum laude, in 1989. His undergraduate honors included the Robert Costas Scholarship for Excellence in Broadcast Writing. Villanova University School of Law awarded him a J.D., also cum laude, in 1992. Alongside the injury and litigation matters, his individual practice listing includes insurance bad faith, consumer claims and business torts. It also identifies premises liability, motor vehicle and trucking matters, construction site and workplace injuries, and healthcare litigation. Weitz’s professional service includes a 2012–2014 term on the executive committee of the Temple American Inn of Court. His work with the Pennsylvania Association for Justice has included two other dated assignments: co-chair of its Bad Faith Committee from 2010 to 2014 and Eastern Caucus Whip from 2011 to 2016.

Medical Malpractice Law

32 Parking Plza suite 401, Ardmore, PA 19003, USA

Representing clients in complex personal injury cases, Eric is an active litigator in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York courts, and has been recognized as a SuperLawyer™ in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He has also been recognized as a Top Attorney in Pennsylvania. Eric enjoys extensive experience as a courtroom litigator. Over almost 30 years of practice, he has earned many multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts litigating product liability, medical malpractice, premises liability, construction accidents, auto accidents, and other complex claims.

Medical Malpractice Law

200 E State St suite 103, Media, PA 19063, USA

Established malpractice attorney, Frank Curran brings over thirty years experience to his practice located in the Philadelphia suburbs. Born in Delaware County, he spent several years in Michigan where he earned his undergraduate and law degrees, graduating with high honors. After completing his education, Mr. Curran brought his family back to Pennsylvania where he accepted a position with the renowned attorneys at Kassab, Archibald and Cherry. There, he received an invaluable opportunity to tackle complex cases and obtained guided hands-on experience under the tutelage of skilled and successful mentors. He founded The Curran Firm, P.C. in 1998, and based his new firm on honesty and authenticity – crucial values he felt were severely lacking in the legal profession. The firm achieved remarkable success, due in part to Frank's distinctive approach to malpractice law, which involves fostering a trusting and sincere relationship with each client. His natural talent for connecting with clients and juries on a personal level has not only earned their trust but also ignited a passion within him to prevail in any case. Over the course of his career, he has proudly secured hundreds of millions of dollars for his clients. Frank’s passion and dynamic persona have made The Curran Firm, P.C. a major player in Pennsylvania malpractice law and victim’s litigation.

Medical Malpractice Law

310 Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, USA

Firm founder, Attorney Jason Matzus has over 20 years of experience handling complex personal injury cases, including medical malpractice, industrial and construction site injury cases, auto and trucking cases and fires and explosions. Attorney Matzus is proud to be a trial lawyer and has dedicated his entire career to advocating on behalf of injury victims and their families that are seriously injured or killed through no fault of their own. Throughout the course of his career, Attorney Matzus has recovered tens of millions of dollars for his clients. But, what matters most to him and his clients is that cases pursued by Attorney Matzus have resulted in safety improvements in medical care at local hospitals, worker safety at job sites, roadway safety for motorists as well as other public safety improvements in other industries.

Medical Malpractice Law

437 Grant St., Suite 200, Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Mr. Perry is respected across Pennsylvania as one of the most active and authoritative lecturers in the areas of medical malpractice and personal injury and is an Adjunct Professor of litigation at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law (Named to Who’s Who in Law Higher Education). Mr. Perry has earned a reputation as a champion of victim’s rights and his battle with the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare over a recipient’s obligation to repay benefits was named the 2008 case of the year in the State of Pennsylvania. In 2013, Mr. Perry’s battle with an ERISA Plan culminated in a nationally monitored United States Supreme Court decision clarifying victims’ ERISA repayment obligations. Mr. Perry has obtained many of western Pennsylvania’s highest settlements and verdicts including a $32,000,000 verdict, the largest ever in Allegheny County for the death of a child. Mr. Perry’s trial skills and results have earned him national recognition in numerous editions of Marquis Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in the World. In 2005 through 2022 he was named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, an honor awarded to the top 5 percent of the attorneys in Pennsylvania. In 2008 through 2022, he was named one of Pittsburgh’s Top 50 Super Lawyers and a Top 100 in Pennsylvania. For decades, Mr. Perry has been included in The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of medical malpractice and personal injury. Mr. Perry was designated 2013 Pittsburgh Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs “Lawyer of the Year” by the Best Lawyers’ in America. In 2015 and then again in 2018, he was designated Pittsburgh Medical Malpractice Lawyer of the Year. In 2008, he was honored with The Duquesne University School of Law’s Outstanding Achievement Award. In 2009, Mr. Perry was honored with Duquesne University’s prestigious Mind, Heart & Spirit award. In 2012, Mr. Perry was honored with the Service to Society Award for career achievement and service from The Pennsylvania State University. In 2013, he received the inaugural Dan Berger Service to Society Award from the Western Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers’ Association and in 2022 he was recipient of the Duquesne Law Public Interest Law Alumni Award. Mr. Perry’s intellect and ethics earned him Martindale Hubbell’s prestigious AV rating. Mr. Perry maintains an active litigation practice and has been recognized for numerous multi-million dollar verdicts. He is a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Mr. Perry is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, the American Association for Justice, and the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County and its Board of Governors, the Allegheny County Bar Association and its Gender Equality Committee. Along with his wife, Joni, Mr. Perry founded Pennies from Heaven, a charity providing economic assistance to financially challenged families to allow parents to stay with children admitted to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. To date, Pennies From Heaven (www.facebook.com/PFHPittsburgh) has raised over $3,000,000 and assisted more than 750,000 families.

Medical Malpractice Law

183 Market St, Kingston, PA 18704, USA

Attorney Melanie Fellerman of Harvey’s Lake, Pennsylvania is a Cum Laude graduate from Widener University Delaware Law School, where she obtained her Juris Doctor. She is a dean’s list graduate from Penn State University where she obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing, as well as a Master of Science in Nursing in the Nurse Executive Program from Wilkes University. While in law school, she completed judicial internship for the Honorable Joseph F. Saporito, Jr. for the United States District Court in Middle District of Pennsylvania, a Certified Legal Internship for the Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office, as well as legal internship for Fellerman and Ciarimboli Law. While in law school she received the Reed Hamilton Memorial Award for demonstrating excellence in the area of health law. Attorney Fellerman is a lawyer and a registered nurse who focuses her practice on healthcare and medical malpractice. She has specific focus on representing areas of health law as well as the victims of medical negligence and birth injury. Prior to joining Fellerman & Ciarimboli, Law PC, Attorney Fellerman has worked over 20 years as a practicing Registered Nurse. Initially starting her career as a Labor and Delivery Nurse, Melanie has practiced in multiple states, at various sized hospitals including small community hospitals to large Level III centers giving care for a broad range of high-risk maternal and fetal conditions. This level includes the ability to care for critically ill pregnant women and fetuses, with on-site access to subspecialists like maternal-fetal medicine experts, neonatologists, and pediatric surgeons. Later, Melanie advanced her career as Director of Nursing for home health care company, with extensive experience in quality patient care, developing policies, managing staff, and adhering to regulatory state and federal standards. Continuing to excel in an administrative healthcare role, Melanie decided to start her own business providing services that combined retail pharmacy, home infusion, and nursing. As a healthcare business owner, Melanie has extensive experience with insurance contracts, pharmacy regulations, home infusion, nursing clinical supervisor, business strategy, financial management, regulatory state and federal compliance including HIPAA and quality assurance programs.

Medical Malpractice Law

15 Public SQ, STE 501, Wilkes Barre, PA 18701-1704

Attorney Michael J. Kowalski represents individuals and their families in personal injury matters. This includes cases of medical malpractice, automobile and truck accidents, nursing home negligence, medication errors, defective medical devices, premises liability, and psychiatric malpractice. He also counsels and represents clients in insurance bad faith and insurance denial matters. An experienced trial and appellate attorney, Michael has appeared before state and federal courts throughout Pennsylvania on behalf of seriously injured accident and malpractice victims. He is the medical malpractice lawyer you want fighting for you.

Medical Malpractice Law

401 Liberty Ave, Suite 1543, Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Attorney Rudolph L. Massa is the founding partner of our law firm. He has spent his entire career working to find justice for his clients. Attorney Massa has remained vigilant in the fight against inadequate health care and ruthless health insurance companies. With a strong interest in medicine, ‘Rudy’ attended The Pennsylvania State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. Further to his interests in the practice of medicine, he then attended and graduated from the National College of Chiropractic in Chicago. As a chiropractic physician, Dr. Rudolph Massa practiced for many years in South Florida until a neck injury ended his medical practice. While recovering from this life-altering tragedy, he shifted his interest into practicing law. He then attended and graduated cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, Florida. As a law student, he served as law review editor and as the American Bar Association student representative for the University of Miami. Because of his strong roots in Western Pennsylvania, after law school, Rudy brought his family home to Pittsburgh to establish his law firm, with the intent to help permanently scarred victims of medical and nursing home neglect or abuse, and those harmed by vaccines. Having been involved in medicine for nearly all his adult life, coupled with his law practice focus on medical cases, Rudy knows the safety rules that are designed to keep all patients safe. When hospitals, nursing homes, doctors, or other medical providers don’t follow patient safety rules and someone gets hurt, Rudy and his team will work tirelessly to get the justice that is deserved. During his long legal career, Rudy has successfully argued numerous cases before the Pennsylvania Superior and Supreme Courts. He has many recoveries over one million Dollars to his name and has tried many medical malpractice cases to verdict. One of Rudy’s major accomplishments in the field of Medical Malpractice is the Miller case, which remains the largest verdict in a medical malpractice case in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Rudy is a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a select group of attorneys who have achieved multi-million-dollar recoveries of more than two million dollars for their clients. Rudy is also a member of the Allegheny Academy of Trial Lawyers, an exclusive group of local attorneys, whose sole focus is trial advocacy. He is a member in good standing of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Florida Bar Association, Federal Claims Bar Association, American Bar Association, and the Allegheny County Bar Association. We know that you have many choices when seeking a medical malpractice attorney, in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. Please consider our experience and vast knowledge of the medical profession and contact us so that we can help you to get the justice that you deserve.

Medical Malpractice Law

161 Washington Street, Suite 401, Conshohocken, PA 19428

Upon graduating from law school, Theresa was selected to serve as a law clerk to the Honorable James N. Diefenderfer, President Judge of the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas (retired). As a law clerk for two years Theresa gained extensive research and writing experience and played a key role in helping draft civil court opinions and rulings. Theresa next worked as an associate at a small general practice firm, where she gained a wide range of legal experience, including in the areas of bankruptcy law, family law, and divorce proceedings, but worked primarily in the area of plaintiff’s personal injury litigation. Since joining Villari, Giannone and Matteo, Theresa continues to represent victims of personal injury, with a concentration in medical malpractice cases, tractor-trailer collision cases and other major personal injury matters. Her dedication to her clients and persistent efforts on their behalf are two of her most valued assets. Theresa is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. and is a member of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers’ Association. “While I was in law school, I took a job at a firm where they did a lot of civil work and I found that I enjoyed that and had an affinity for it. So continuing through law school, I went in that direction. And I liked that aspect of it in terms of helping people, the research that was involved, being able to get into court and all of those things… In this type of law, you really get to help people. And the longer you do it, you get to see the outcomes of the cases you were able to handle and how not just what the end result of the case is but then how it went on to help somebody, especially with the types of cases we do to help children or help families.” – Attorney Theresa Giannone To learn more about how attorney Giannone can help you, contact us and schedule your free case evaluation. See how and why Theresa is proud of her accomplishments and the families she helps.

Medical Malpractice Law

15 W. Highland Ave, Suite 15A, Philadelphia, PA 19118

The attorney you choose makes a difference. In medical malpractice litigation, it is the most important decision you will make. Theresa Blanco has the kind of experience and compassion that will see you through the case, beginning to end. The daughter of dedicated high-school teachers, she was the first American-born member of her father’s family, who emigrated from Cuba as refugees in the early 1960’s. She attended American University in Washington, DC on a full academic scholarship funded by the National Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and Temple University Law School – Evening Division so she could work full time during the day to pay for school. It was at Temple Law that she found her niche in not only trial law, but medical malpractice. A chance schedule change put her in a class taught by the esteemed health law professor, Frank McClellan, and a lot of hard work won her the Trial Advocacy Award for her class. She hit the ground running after graduation working with Eaton & McClellan, with a series of cases which changed the way medical malpractice cases are litigated, how patients and families are compensated, and how cases against hospitals are proven.1 Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1996, she has spent the last 25 years litigating medical malpractice cases not only in Pennsylvania, but all over the country. Theresa has a particular expertise in cardiac cases, and has consulted on and handled numerous pediatric heart cases in state and federal courts nationwide. She also has a particular interest in pediatric cases which make up a large portion of her work. As more medical records have become computerized over the last ten years, Theresa has been at the cutting edge of interpreting these records and the data behind them to the advantage of her clients, and was one of the first attorneys in Pennsylvania to routinely obtain this data in each case. The details matter and it is the details that will make a case successful. Theresa’s attention to those details and her knowledge of how to utilize them will make all the difference in your case. Not only is she relentless in the pursuit of justice for her clients, Theresa is dedicated to taking the cases that expose health care inequities and discrimination. She was one of the first attorneys to bring claims under the federal Rehabilitation Act in a malpractice case as a result of alleged disparate treatment of disabled children in a hospital. Theresa is an advocate and an ally and she will have your back. You can count on it.

Medical Malpractice Law

1302 Green Ridge Street, Dunmore, PA 18509

Mark Perry has over thirty years’ experience specializing in complex litigation, including healthcare, commercial, products liability, and class action cases. He has tried more than 100 cases in Pennsylvania and New York in both state and federal courts, in virtually every specialty of medicine, including birth trauma cases. Mr. Perry practiced law with Phillips, Lytle, LLP, in Buffalo, New York, from 1986 through 1991. In 1998, he founded The Perry Law Firm. Mr. Perry is certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Requirements for board certification include substantial involvement in trials and settlements, participation in continued legal education, a reputation among judges and other lawyers for competence, and successful completion of a written examination. Mr. Perry is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocacy. ABOTA is an invitation only organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Seventh Amendment, which guarantees the right to Civil Jury Trials. Mr. Perry is "AV" rated by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating awarded by this preeminent legal resource. In 2011, Mr. Perry was elected a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society composed of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. Mr. Perry has been selected as a “Super Lawyer” for 21 consecutive years (2005 -2026). In 2017, Mr. Perry was honored with a lifetime achievement selection as one of the Top 100 Attorneys in Pennsylvania. Attorney Perry was recognized in The New York Times for his selection as a Lawyer of Distinction in 2021 (NYT 4/25/21). In 2021, Mark was named one of the Top 10 Personal Injury Lawyers in New York. Mr. Perry was one of the original members of the Board of Directors of the Medical Education Development Corporation. The work of the MEDC led to the creation of the Commonwealth Medical College. Mr. Perry received the Exemplary Service Award from The Lackawanna County Bar Association in 2010 and 2023. Mr. Perry is currently serving in his second term as a Hearing Committee Member for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Mr. Perry is currently serving as the President of the Lackawanna County Bar Association for 2026.