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The twelve personal injury attorneys at Dougherty Leventhal and Price LLP are handling serious personal injury and workers compensation cases in North Central Pennsylvania. The Law Firm includes six (6) Super Lawyers as voted by Philadelphia Magazine and is representing accident victims in Bradford, Susquehanna, Tioga, Potter, Wyoming. Sullivan and Wayne County. DLP has handled numerous serious injury cases involving tractor trailers, cars, motorcycles, defective products and other types of negligence. Recently, Attorneys Joe Price and Tom Cummings attended a seminar in Houston , Texas to help the firm represent clients injured or killed while involved in the drilling industry or when involved with a vehicle used in the gas drilling industry. The firm has represented clients from many communities including Wellsboro, Coudersport, Mansfield, Towanda, Athens, Waverly. Montrose, Sayre, Tunkhannock and other towns. If you suffer injuries as a result of an accident or while at work, please contact any of our lawyers at dlplaw.com or call 570-call-dlp.

A recent study out of Pennsylvania State University has been quoted by the gas industry as predicting that as many as 98000 new jobs may be created in Pennsylvania as a result of increased drilling for natural gas.

The Pennsylvania personal injury Attorneys at Dougherty Leventhal and Price LLP are committed to protecting the rights of workers and their families for injuries or death suffered while working at drill sites. Attorney Thomas Cummings and Attorney Joseph Price will be attending a seminar at the University of Texas which will discuss issues involving gas drilling. Attorney Cummings handles workers compensation claims for injured workers. Attorney Price handles serious/complex personal injury claims involving injury or death. Both Attorney Cummings and Attorney Price have been named Super Lawyers by Philadelphia Magazine.

Any person or family suffering death or injury as a result of gas drilling in Pennsylvania should contact Dougherty Leventhal and Price LLP immediately for a free consultation.

Dougherty, Leventhal and Price personal injury Attorneys Patrick E Dougherty, Joseph G. Price and Paul T. Oven settled a motor vehicle accident case against a paving company winning $14.5 million for their client. The client sustained traumatic injuries in the one car crash.

The client turned out of a driveway and traveled about a half mile when the passenger side tires left the road and dropped six inches in an open and exposed dirt shoulder. Traveling at about 45 mph, the tires ran along the dirt shoulder. The client then over-steered the vehicle back into the road, yawed and then struck two trees. The impact of the crash nearly threw the plaintiff through the rear window.

The paving company contracted with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to pave and shoulder more than 40 miles on a number of roads.

Shouldering and paving is a process whereby the edges of the road are prepared and two layers of surface are laid. Afterward, steps are to be taken to immediately restore the shoulders of the road or to protect or warn the public about the open road edge and drop off.

Despite completing the edge and paving work, the paving company did not shoulder the road or protect or warn the public about it at any time prior to completing the shoulder work.

Now a quadriplegic, the client spent months in various hospitals for intensive physical therapy and rehabilitation. A life care plan was prepared outlining the extensive costs associated with future medical care and medical management. The client is now at home under 24 hour care.

A Nanticoke couple has been awarded $1.96 million in a verdict returned by a Luzerne County jury against the Tennessee corporation that operates Dollar General stores. The couple, Joan and Jay Urbanski, was represented by personal injury Attorneys Patrick Dougherty, Joseph Price and Brian Walsh of the DLP law firm. Attorney Price believes the verdict to be a record in Luzerne County for that type of case. It also could go higher as a motion has been filed seeking delay damages against Dollar General.

Mrs. Urbanski, 40, was injured in the fall at a Dollar General Store in Hanover Township on Sept. 4, 2000. She fell after stepping on transparent plastic packaging material that had been left in the store aisle. The jury determined Mrs. Urbanski, a nurse, should receive $862,000 for economic damages, including lost income and the costs of ongoing medical treatment, and $1 million in punitive damages. Her husband was awarded $100,000 for loss of companionship. Dollar General admitted negligence relative to Mrs.Urbanski’s fall, but disputed the extent of her injuries and the diagnosis of reflex sympathetic dystrophy, a nerve disorder resulting from the fall, which disables Mrs. Urbanski. Mr. Price said the case and verdict have a component of deterrence. Attorney Price noted :”We wanted to tell this Tennessee corporation that, if they’re going to have outlets and make profits from people in Northeastern Pennsylvania, then they need to operate safe stores”.

A 57 year old paraplegic who sustained right shoulder injuries while staying at the Holiday Inn Express secured a settlement of $750,000.00 based on the negligence of the defendant. The plaintiff, who was represented by Personal injury Attorneys Patrick Dougherty and Brian J Walsh of the DLP Law Firm, suffered a torn bicep tendon, as well as a torn rotator cuff when the safety bar detached from the wall while the plaintiff was alighting from the commode.

As a result of the incident, the plaintiff underwent arthroscopic surgery for his torn rotator cuff. At the time of the incident, the plaintiff was employed by the paralyzed veteran’s association as a wheelchair repair person. Due to the incident, the claimant was deemed totally disabled and was unable to continue his employment.

DLP pursued a theory of liability that the safety rail was inappropriately secured to the bathroom wall. In addition, the complaint filed by DLP alleged that the defendant was negligent for failing to have appropriate inspection measures in place to ensure that the safety rails were properly attached to the wall.

The case settled prior to trial with the plaintiff securing a settlement in the amount of $750,000.00 to compensate for future loss of earning capacity and plaintiff’s pain and suffering.

Each year the Boys and Girls Club of Northeastern Pennsylvania selects individuals from the community to honor for their outstanding work in advancing the cause of children and youth programming and services. The honorees are recognized because they exemplify the ideals of being a “Champion of Youth”. Each honoree has given selflessly of their time and resources to ensure very child in the community will realize their full potential.

This year, Pennsylvania personal injury attorneys Judy and Joe Price were honored as award recipients of the Champions of Youth Award. They were recently honored at an awards ceremony held in their honor. The Prices continue a long tradition of attorneys from DLP supporting and representing children of Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Medicare has adopted a new policy whereby it will no longer pay hospital costs incurred by patients due to medical errors.  The policy is designed to force hospitals to take responsibility for their own mistakes.  The policy also obviously seeks to reduce the amount Medicare pays out in the form of medical bill payments.  However, Medicare’s new policy may ultimately result in patients who are victims of medical error being victimized twice in that the hospitals will now seek payment directly from the patients when Medicare denies payment for their medical treatment.  In circumstances where a hospital requires pre-treatment authorization of payment, Medicare’s new policy may also result in patients who are the victims of medical error being denied treatment required to remedy the medical error.

Medicare’s new policy excludes from coverage the extra costs of treating preventable errors, injuries and infections that occur in hospitals.  Among the conditions that will be affected are pressure ulcers and bedsores, injuries caused by falls, and infections resulting from the prolonged use of catheters in blood vessels or the bladder. In addition, Medicare’s new policy will deny payment for treatment of “serious preventable events” like leaving a sponge or other object in a patient during surgery and providing a patient with incompatible blood or blood products.

If you were the victim of a medical error caused by a hospital or doctor, call the DLP team of Pennsylvania Personal Injury Attorneys for a free evaluation of your right to compensation, including your right to payment for medical treatment caused by the medical error.

John P. Finnerty, Esquire

In a ruling highly favorable to injured plaintiffs, in Sackett v. Nationwide Mutual Ins. Co., PICS Case No. 07-0594 (April 17, 2007), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that an insurance company is required to obtain a new executed waiver of stacking from from a named insured every time the named insured adds a vehicle to an existing auto insurance policy.  An insurance company’s failure to obtain a new executed waiver of stacking form signed by a named insured will result in the insured being deemed to have stacked UM/UIM coverage.  The policy will be deemed to provide stacked UM/UIM coverage even though the insured never paid for such coverage because the insured must be given an opportunity to waive stacked coverage. 

If you have been injured in a motor vehicle accident and have a question regarding the amount of UM/UIM coverage on your policy, contact DLP team of Pennsylvania Personal Injury Attorneys for a free consultation.

John P. Finnerty, Esquire  

In three separate confidential settlements, the DLP Law team of Pennsylvania Personal Injury Attorneys have secured six-figure settlements for motorcycle accident victims. Although the details of each case are confidential we can tell you that all three settlements were for the insurance policy limits.