Multi-million-dollar premises liability settlement

Attorneys Jonathan M. Cohen, Julia Ronnebaum, and Colin James Beisel obtained a 7-figure settlement on behalf of a client who suffered a brain injury due to the Defendant’s failure to enforce and uphold standard safety practices.

Multi-million-dollar settlement for medical malpractice

Jonathan M. Cohen obtained a multi-million-dollar settlement on behalf of a client due to a hospital’s failure to provide proper care and treatment.

$2.5 million trial verdict for nightclub shooting

Following a trial to the Judge, Jonathan M. Cohen was able to secure an award of $2.5 million for the family of a victim of a fatal shooting at a nightclub in Philadelphia.

Million-dollar sexual assault suit

Jonathan M. Cohen obtained a seven-figure settlement for a client who was sexually assaulted.

$7.9 million on a re-trial after years of appeals

An example of Mr. Cohen’s perseverance is the Drum case, which spanned seven years and numerous legal motions and appeals before a jury awarded $7.9 million to an injured Pittsburgh worker in November 2003. Cohen stepped into the litigation after James T. Drum lost his first trial and after appeals to the Pennsylvania Superior and Supreme Courts. It was the second jury that found for Drum, who suffered a 12-foot fall from a raised forklift.

$8.3 federal jury verdict for woman sexually assaulted by police officers

Jonathan M. Cohen tried a highly publicized case that resulted in an $8.3 million federal jury award for a woman who had been sexually assaulted by two Philadelphia police officers.

$22 million verdict for mother suffering brain damage after giving birth

Cohen was co-trial counsel in a case that produced a $22 million verdict for a woman who suffered brain damage after giving birth. Ana Gomez had suffered bleeding in her uterus but it took doctors and staff at Atlantic City Medical Center more than an hour to get her blood for a transfusion. As a result, Gomez went into cardiac arrest and lost oxygen to her brain. She was left disabled, unable to feed or bathe either herself or her newborn daughter. The $22 million verdict was the largest involving a personal injury case in New Jersey for 2003 as cataloged by the New Jersey Law Journal.

Fatal Salvation Army Collapse

Jonathan Cohen represented two individuals who were severely injured when a Salvation Army Thrift Store collapsed on them on June 4, 2015. Seven people were killed and twelve individuals, including Cohen’s clients, were severely injured. In 2017, a jury found all defendants liable and the settlement in the amount of $227 million, one of the largest of its kind in Pennsylvania, was divided among the plaintiffs.

$1.8 million arbitration award in car crash case

In 2017, Jonathan M. Cohen secured $1.8 million during an arbitration, for clients who were struck and injured by an uninsured motorist.

$5.8 million for medical negligence

Cohen was co-counsel in a $5.8 million award for an Atlantic City hotel worker who was prescribed the wrong anti-malaria drug before a trip to Africa and later died of complications related to the disease.

$20.8 million medical malpractice jury verdict

Cohen was co-counsel in a $20.8 million jury verdict for a podiatrist who lost her foot as the result of an unrelated medical error.

Eight-figure premises liability settlement

Attorneys Jonathan M. Cohen, Julia Ronnebaum, and Colin James Beisel obtained an 8-figure settlement on behalf of a client for the negligent maintenance of a premises.

Eight-figure settlement in medical malpractice action

Jonathan M. Cohen obtained an eight-figure settlement on behalf of a client due to medical negligence.

Settlement for monetary recovery and pilot project

Cohen has also often worked for the public good, as he did in a federal in which he engineered a settlement with the City of Philadelphia in a police cell room suicide case that has resulted in a monetary recovery and in a pilot project to subject all detainees to video monitoring to help prevent the common tragedy of pre-trial suicides.

$1.3 million for whistleblower

Just after a jury was selected, Cohen obtained a $1.3 million settlement in a whistleblower case for a sergeant who was retaliated against by his employer, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, after he reported unlawful and unethical conduct, including sexual harassment of female detectives, to his superiors.

$3.5 million mid-trial settlement in civil rights case

Cohen won a $3.5 million settlement with the City of Philadelphia for a 27-year-old man who suffered brain damage after attempting suicide in a city jail. The agreement in the civil rights case came on the seventh day of trial and after Cohen delivered a stirring closing speech in which he blamed the city for failing to properly train officers and safeguard Christopher Foster, who had been known to have attempted suicide in the past.

$2.9 million for mild brain injury

Jonathan M. Cohen obtained a recovery of $2.9 million for a produce delivery driver who sustained a mild brain injury in the workplace.

$6.5 million jury verdict for injured worker

Cohen was lead counsel in a trial that resulted in a Philadelphia jury verdict of  $6.5 million for a 34-year-old mason who was injured while working at a Merck & Co. facility in Lansdale, PA.

$1.5 million for death of newborn

In 2012, Jonathan M. Cohen secured a $1.5 million settlement after a hospital’s failure to maintain proper records lead to the death of an infant child.

$5.8 million for medical negligence

Cohen was co-counsel in a $5.8 million award for an Atlantic City hotel worker who was prescribed the wrong anti-malaria drug before a trip to Africa and later died of complications related to the disease.

$1 million against landlord

Cohen also served as co-counsel on the highly publicized case of Helen Shapiro, an 87-year-old tenant who died in her apartment when the air-conditioning was turned off for several days while repairs were ongoing. The landlord, a major real estate conglomerate, offered a $10,000 settlement. A jury awarded $600,000, a relatively large award for an elderly person. However, because of a pre-trial agreement made with the landlord, Shapiro’s family ended up with a settlement for a different sum – $1 million.