The Axelrod Firm’s attorneys have a combined over 50 years of experience handling a wide array of bodily injury litigation.

Representative Matters

Arbitrator on a Large, Complex Premises Liability – Negligent Security Claim: Represented a Major Corporate Client in a Negligent Security Action Brought by a Teenager who Claimed he was Raped on its Premises: 

Developed multiple defenses for our client and successfully amicably resolved the action.

Premises Liability – Slip and Fall / Defective Condition Claim: Represented a Building Owner Against an Individual Who Allegedly Sustained Serious Injuries Due to a Defective Condition on our Client’s Premises:

Following his fall over the allegedly defective condition, the plaintiff underwent multiple surgeries, and claimed he lost all use of his dominant arm. The Axelrod Firm mounted a strong defense including by retaining:

(1) an investigator who uncovered a damaging photograph of the plaintiff, showing him lifting with his allegedly unusable arm, an over 50 lb. snapper turtle; and

(2) an independent medical examiner who found Plaintiff’s claims to be contradicted by the size of the musculature in both of his arms.

We then successfully settled the case.

Premises Liability – Claim For Negligent Samaritan Assistance: Defended Global Company and an Employee From Teenage Decedent who Collapsed on Its Premises And Died:

The young man’s administratrix claimed that when the client-defendant, by and through its employees, endeavored to rescue the child, they did so negligently. The Axelrod Firm obtained discovery demonstrating that Plaintiff’s decedent had two distinct heart defects, which each contributed to his passing. The Firm was also able to develop strong statutory and case law support for there being no duty beyond calling 911 within a reasonable amount of time, which Firm’s attorneys felt confident was done. That said, there was damning discoverable evidence against our client.

We managed to successfully amicably resolve the matter before trial.

Motor Vehicle: Represented a Plaintiff who was Injured In a Rear End Car Collision: 

Successfully settled the matter after the defense took Plaintiff’s deposition.

Motor Vehicle: Defended Global Corporation From Claims by a Man Hit Head-On When the Corporation’s Driver Allegedly Made an Illegal U-Turn: 

Plaintiff retained 6 experts including an economic expert who contended that Plaintiff sustained a loss of earning and earning capacity of $675,000 to $1.4 million and another $1.8 to 2.5 million in future medical expenses.

Successfully amicably resolved the matter shortly before trial.

The global corporation was so pleased with The Axelrod Firm’s work in this matter, that after the case resolved, the Firm began to receive all of the global corporation’s certain line of its general liability matters in Philadelphia.

Motor Vehicle: Defended a Global Corporation from Punitive Damages Against an Elderly Couple its Driver Hit Head-On and Severely Injured While Texting:

The Axelrod Firm successfully got Plaintiffs’ punitive damages claim stricken.

Once that occurred, we successfully settled the case.

Electrocution Cases: Defended Electric Company:

Obtained highly favorable settlements in each case.

Representation of Governmental Entities:

Represented various Pennsylvania state governmental entities and an individual sued in his official governmental capacity against high-profile claims brought by a coalition of school districts, parents, and public interest groups who claimed that the way the state government and official disbursed funds for public school education, was unconstitutional and disproportionately impacted poor urban and rural districts.

Our clients did not oppose these claims and stood in the position of advisors to the court as our clients did not have the legislative authority to bring about the declaratory and injunctive relief Petitioners sought. 

The court ultimately ruled that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s school funding system is unconstitutional, and ordered state legislative officials to devise a new, constitutionally compliant funding plan.

The Axelrod Firm’s attorneys have a combined over 50 years of experience handling a wide array of product liability litigation.  The actions they have handled include the following:

Representative Matters

Product Defect: Represented a Worker Who Sustained Serious Brain Injuries After Being Struck by a Bulk Trash Truck’s Metal Door, Allegedly Due to its Defective Lock:

The case involved successful prosecution of successor liability claims against the subsequent manufacturer of the product, under the product line exception.

We managed to successfully amicably resolve the action.

Design Defect: Successfully Defended an Aerospace Component Part Manufacturer from Post-Trial Claims and an Appeal in Federal Court Asserting that its Seal was Defectively Designed and Caused the Plaintiffs’ Decedents’ Deaths: Represented a Building Owner Against an Individual Who Allegedly Sustained Serious Injuries Due to a Defective Condition on our Client’s Premises:

The jury had found for our client-defendant.  Then counsel at The Axelrod Firm assisted, responding to Plaintiffs’ post-trial motions claiming multiple errors and that a new trial was required.

After extensive rounds of briefing before the district court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and oral argument thereon, we were successful in getting the trial court to deny Plaintiffs’ post-trial motions. Plaintiffs appealed and after multiple briefs before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, we successfully convinced the Third Circuit to affirm our client’s defense verdict.

Product Defect: Represented a Consumer in a Strict Liability Action Involving Permanent Loss of Vision and Disfigurement:

The case involved extensive discovery including expert depositions on technical issues on the design of the defective contact lens solution, causation, and FDA regulations involving medical devices.

As the parties prepared the joint pretrial order in federal district court in New Jersey, we successfully settled the action.  

Product Defect: Represented a Licensor in a Strict Liability Action Involving an Injured Young Child: 

Counsel in The Axelrod Firm represented the licensor of a toy stroller whose axle was iron, pointed on both ends, and designed on spring mounts between wheels which held the iron back by nothing but paper hubcaps. The child-plaintiff allegedly fell on it, her head landing on one of its wheels. The spring-loaded axle then sprung out, tearing through the paper hubcap and entered her skull.

In briefs, counsel at The Axelrod Firm, culling from the few cases around the country on the subject of which companies in the chain of distribution hold greatest responsibility for injuries, argued that our client-licensor should not be held liable as between it and other parties in the chain of its manufacture and distribution.

We successfully obtained an amicable settlement in which the other parties in the chain of distribution paid far more than our client did.

Product Defect: Represented a Worker who was Rendered a Paraplegic After a 2,000 LB. Sack Fell on Her at Work:

Through extensive discovery, disputes and motions, we uncovered that the employer, its parent corporation, and the distributor had knowledge of a prior accident involving stacked bags and failed to change company practices, enabling our client to surmount the Worker’s Compensation Defense.

We successfully reached a settlement with some parties as a result of a mediation and later, at the start of trial, we also did with the remaining defendant.

Product Defect: Represented a Consumer in Defective Design and Failure to Warn Action Involving Permanent Brain Injuries from a Dietary Supplement:

This was one of the first cases for injuries resulting from Ephedra products, before Ephedra products were banned by the FDA.

The case was vigorously defended by the manufacturer and distributor, required numerous depositions and extensive discovery, including tracing the production, distribution  and point of sale of product lot numbers.

Counsel in The Axelrod Firm managed to successfully amicably resolve the action.

Product Defect: Represented the Distributor of a Glass Soda Bottle in an Exploding Bottle Strict Products Liability Matter:

In the case, an individual’s eye was sliced apart by an exploding bottle. 

We successfully settled the case.