Firm News, Updates and Press Mentions

A $1.95 million settlement was reached last month in the Northampton Common Pleas Court case of a bank employee whose brain was injured during a motor vehicle accident.

Two client awards earned by Duffy & Keenan received mentions in the PA Law Weekly's "Top Cases of 2007" supplement.

The law firm of Duffy & Keenan, led by Thomas J. Duffy, Esq., has moved into a grand new office space encompassing the entire 55th floor of One Liberty Place.

A Philadelphia jury awarded $6.5 million to a union glazier and his wife because the glazier was injured by a fall from a ladder at an allegedly disorderly strip mall construction site.

On the fourth day of a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court trial, a truck driver agreed to a $3.75 million settlement for a low-impact accident that the driver said permanently disabled him.

Tom Duffy argued an important issue regarding product liability cases on behalf of a client yesterday before Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices.

A now-partially paralyzed man was awarded $10.6 million from a Philadelphia jury and settled with other defendants for about $3.38 million after shelving in the warehouse where he worked collapsed.

In three separate lawsuits that were tried jointly, the insurers blamed a housing developer and a contractor for causing excessive water run-off that made the flood more severe. The case is St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. v. Nolen Group Inc.

A Philadelphia jury recently awarded most of a $1.55 million verdict to a veteran Center City defense attorney who claimed a January 2003 rear-ender left him with a torn rotator cuff. The remainder of the award went to the attorney's wife.

A 57-year-old former minister represented by a Philadelphia firm has reached a $6 million settlement over a February 2005 accident in New Jersey that caused his left arm to be amputated, and, allegedly, permanent brain damage.