Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Lawyers

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