Birth Injury Lawyer Clifton, New Jersey.
The uncertainties and tremendous challenges of raising and caring for a child suffering from cerebral palsy or other serious birth injury are daunting. Over the past three decades, our team of experienced trial attorneys and specialists has established an impressive track record helping families, in the courtroom and in our community. Experience counts. Results matter.
In birth injury cases, our experienced attorneys know the value of R &I a detailed research and investigation. Our team includes medical and nursing experts who perform a deep and thorough medical research to evaluate the merits of a medical malpractice long before the lawsuit is filed.
Our team of experienced trial attorneys and world renowned experts provide the necessary edge in the preparation, research and trial of a case where a newborn is injured at birth.While significant birth injury accounts for fewer than 2% of neonatal deaths and stillbirths in the United States. It still occurs as a result of medical negligence, and we make sure that victims are not victimized twice by not receiving due compensation.
Our commitment to our clients and the community drive our dedication to assist our clients beyond the courtroom and in to the community. We take the necessary time, effort and energy to provide or seek out answers to parents' questions about resources and planning for the child's future. We take great care to investigate whether a child's injuries could have been prevented and if so, work with premier medical and nursing experts to pursue the remedies to which the family is entitled in order to assist in planning and our number one goal, to protect the child's future.
Cohen, Placitella & Roth, supports families facing these challenges outside of the courtroom as well. Our firm is proud to have established the Cohen, Placitella & Roth Family Support Fund at United Cerebral Palsy. The Family Support Fund is used to help individuals and families living with a disability cope with an unexpected emergency, acquire needed assistive technology and adaptive equipment, or help people live more independently. For more information visit United Cerebral Palsy - Philadelphia, http://www.ucpphila.org/support/familyfunds.
Our commitment and dedication runs significantly deeper than the courtroom extends further. Stewart L. Cohen serves as President of the Pennsylvania Brain Injury Association, and is a long time Board member and Vice President of Untied Cerebral Palsy of Philadelphia and Vicinity. He is a frequent speaker and a published author on the representation of medical malpractice victims, proof of medical negligence, and ethics in the representation of medical malpractice victims and their families. Results matter. Experience counts.
For over three decades, the lawyers at Cohen, Placitella & Roth have brought an unwavering commitment and dedication to the legal representation of traumatic brain injury survivors and their families. We represent infants who suffer cerebral palsy as a result of negligence during delivery, senior citizens who are the victims of a serious fall down and brain injury victims of every age and circumstance in between; we are advocates for brain injury victims and their families.
COMMITMENT TO OUR CLIENTS
For their service to the bar, as well as their civic and charitable activities, Cohen, Placitella & Roth attorneys have been recognized and honored for their leadership and devotion.
It is not surprising that our attorneys are leaders within their profession, including: President, New Jersey Trial Lawyers (ATLA-NJ); President, Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania; Vice President, United Cerebral Palsy of Philadelphia and Vicinity;Member,Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; Chairman, Judicial Conduct Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; Chairman of the Environmental Advisory Council and Vice Chairman of the Planning Commission of Lower Merion Township; and Controller, The City of Philadelphia.
The firm has established a standard for professionalism that is widely recognized by judges and other attorneys. Our clients, as well as other attorneys who refer matters to Cohen, Placitella & Roth, have come to expect the best in comprehensive trial preparation, careful attention to detail, high ethical standards, professionalism and, most important, consistently solid results.
COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY
The lawyers at Cohen, Placitella & Roth take a special pride in their work on behalf of severely injured children and disabled adults.
Whether the case involves a child who suffered brain injury at birth, catastrophic injury or death, or permanent disability, our attorneys are committed to obtaining the best result under the circumstances. The firm has obtained numerous multimillion-dollar recoveries for such clients over the years. In addition to seeking the best monetary result, the firm tries to do so in a manner most likely to provide for the lifetime needs.
Emblematic of the firm's commitment to children and the disabled is our special relationship and charitable contributions to two special organizations that serve the needs of children and the disabled: United Cerebral Palsy of Philadelphia and Vicinity, the Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania, and Holidays for the Homeless and Underprivileged, Inc. Click Here to see a listing of our charitable contributions to the community.
Should you be interested in offering support to any of these important organizations, we encourage to your visit their websites on the Internet: www.ucpphila.org, www.biapa.org, and www.holidaysforthehomeless.com.
OUR RECORD
It is unusual for one firm to have results such as these:
- More than 1,000 cases tried to verdict;
- More than 100 recoveries each in excess of $1 million;
- A number of verdicts and settlements for $10 million or more; and
- Verdicts recognized by THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL in "Top 100 Verdicts in the United States."
The firm's experienced trial lawyers are admired for their professionalism, high ethical standards and significant service to the community. They were selected for their commitment to excellence, courtroom skills and empathy with their clients' causes - qualities that enable the firm to handle the most complicated and delicate matters with discretion, finesse and compassion. The quality of their work and their character is among the reasons so many attorneys refer their clients to our firm.
Cohen, Placitella & Roth attorneys have authored numerous articles for local and national legal journals as well as reference material for many textbooks. In addition, several of our attorneys teach at area law schools and lecture to professional audiences. For years, the attorneys at Cohen, Placitella & Roth have spearheaded efforts to improve the law and the administration of justice.
OUR REPUTATION
While Cohen, Placitella & Roth enjoys an exemplary reputation in the personal injury, class action and toxic tort fields, the firm handles a wide variety of civil cases and consistently achieves outstanding results in other types of cases.
For more than three decades, the firm has been a formidable advocate, compiling a track record of impressive awards and precedent-setting verdicts. These include multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements in a wide range of complex cases and topics including:
Medical Malpractice
Professional Negligence
Securities Litigation
Antitrust
Pharmaceutical Insurance
ERISA
Subrogation
Vehicle and Highway Safety/Design
Motor Vehicle
Insurance Coverage
Environmental
Product Liability
Toxic and Mass Torts
Construction Accidents
For over three decades, Cohen, Placitella & Roth (CPR) have brought a unique combination of technical backgrounds and experience, access to resources that provide an edge in the preparation and trial of complicated cases, and an unwavering commitment to our clients and their causes.
We regularly consult and establish partnerships with leading subject matter experts in order to maximize recoveries for our clients. We understand that litigation is very difficult for clients. Lawsuits involving wrongful death, severe personal injuries and financial losses are life altering for the victims because these cases involve losses that dramatically affect all aspects of their own lives and those of their families.
That is why our commitment to our clients and their causes come first at CPR. Relationships and dedication to our clients AND their families are what makes CPR stand out and why they have always been part of how we practice law.
We help our clients not only through the litigation process, but also with getting on with their lives by assisting them in the lifestyle changes they make and by finding them necessary resources that can provide support and help protect their financial assets.
Our success is reflected in the many calls we receive from clients we have helped in the past--it is a part of our law practice and who we are.
