Personal Injury Case Results

Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death and Survival Actions Attorney: Eric Purchase Case: Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death and Survival Actions

McKean County Verdict: $1.25 Million On the day of the Pennsylvania car accident, our client, Sandra, was 23 years old. She’d recently graduated from college with a fine arts degree and was working as a professional bass guitar player. She and her bandmates were due to...

Motorcycle Fatality Settlement Our client’s husband was killed in a motorcycle accident caused by a careless driver. His underinsured motorist carrier originally denied coverage, based on a policy exclusion, and then offered only half the coverage.  Eventually, after extensive insurance policy research and...

Car Accident Settlement Our client was injured when an oncoming SUV slid across the roadway after a snowstorm resulting in a head-on collision. The claim filed by our client against the at-fault driver settled for $95,000. When our client filed...

Pedestrian Struck by Car

From Zero to $325,000 in Six Months An over-the-road truck driver was exiting the highway when he failed to stop in time for traffic that was backed up on the merger ramp. The truck driver rear-ended a mini-van. Our client was...

Rear-End Accident Results in $260,000 UIM Evaluation In this case, our client was struck from behind by a careless driver. Our client had been disabled by preexisting low back problems for a decade or more prior to the accident, but the...

Do You Really Need a Lawyer in Your Case Against Encompass Insurance The car accident happened in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Our client was stopped at a red light when the defendant hit him from behind. Our client was taken to the...

Verdict for Patient Against Oral Surgeon in Medical Malpractice Trial Askins v. Simmons Erie County Docket No. 10727-2005 In this action, our client was treated by an oral surgeon who was fixing a displaced mandibular fracture. We alleged that the surgeon...

Pennsylvania Premises Liability Case Nets $200,000 Settlement This case came to us from another personal injury lawyer who had taken it as far as he could. The case began when the client, whose delivery job required her to visit the premises...

C5-C6 Herniation Vertebral Fusion – $185,000 The defendant driver was westbound on 12th Street between Weschler and Greengarden. It was rush hour. He was in the passing lane and thinking about his tasks for the day. He took his eyes...

Erie Injury Lawyers Report: Head Injury Limited Tort Settlement of 135K This was a case referred to us by another Erie injury lawyer because of its complicated factual background. Not only was the client subject to the Pennsylvania limited tort option, but...

The Case About the Insurance Company That Didn’t Know Its Own Policy An uninsured driver crossed the center line and hit a car being driven by a 56-year-old woman. The collision resulted in injuries to the woman’s knees, including a meniscus tear...

Erie Car Accident Case: Lost Wages Drive Settlement Our client was injured in an Erie car accident. The other driver went through a red light at nearly 40 mph and hit the front-quarter panel of our client’s truck. Both vehicles were...

The Case That Mysteriously Grew Tenfold Our client was camping with some friends. They went to look for firewood in a pickup truck being driven by the defendant. A group of people, including our client, sat on the pickup’s tailgate...

Rear-End Accident: Conservative Care Only This case was unusual in the sense that it involved a rear-end motorcycle accident that led to injuries for which conservative/chiropractic care was sufficient. We are, unfortunately, too accustomed to seeing much worse injuries in such accidents. In...

Erie Injury Lawyers: Pool Hijinks Lead to Injury Settlement Our client was injured when thrown into a pool against her wishes. She was working as a cleaning lady for a local physician and the physician was showing her the pool. Our client...

$200,000 UIM Evaluation Policy Limits A young man wasn’t paying attention while driving up French Street in Erie, PA. He failed to notice traffic stopped in front of him and, as a result, he struck a car in the rear....

Uninsured Motorist Claim Settles for Limits (But First the Insurer Tried to Get Away with Less) This case was one of the more unusual insurance claims I’ve encountered. Our client came to us after he’d already settled his Pennsylvania uninsured motorist claim. That’s...

Referral from Erie Car Crash Lawyer Settles for Policy Limits Our client was injured in an Erie car accident when a young woman feel asleep at the wheel, crossed the center line, and collided with our client’s vehicle. Our client...

Erie Car Accident Ends in Payment of Policy Limits Our client was injured in an Erie car accident when a young woman feel asleep at the wheel, crossed the center line, and collided with our client’s vehicle. Our client ended...

Referral from Erie Car Crash Lawyer Settles for Policy Limits A young man returning from a hockey game failed to stop for traffic on French Street in Erie, Pennsylvania. He rear-ended a vehicle in front of him. The driver of...

Do You Really Need an Attorney in Your Case Against Erie Insurance: The Rusty Trailer Story It’s been some time since I last wrote about the inherent bias and occasional incompetence that Pennsylvania insurance companies sometimes display toward their own insureds. (The...

Policy Limits Our client was involved in a motor vehicle accident. The facts of the accident aren’t important because the gentleman who struck our client readily admitted that the accident was his fault. Our client suffered an injury to her...

Do You Really Need a Lawyer in Your Case Against State Farm The case began when an elderly driver went through a stop sign in Millcreek, PA. A young woman and her mother were biking on the cross street. The...

The Case About the Insurance Company That Sued a Nine-Year-Old Boy A nine-year-old boy was riding his bicycle on Plum Street in Erie, Pennsylvania. As he peddled, an elderly woman was driving her car west on 11th Street and approaching...

Do You Really Need a Lawyer in Your Case Against... Erie Insurance Our client was a passenger in a car driven by her supervisor from work. The supervisor made a left turn in front of a snowplow which collided with...