Jeff is an experienced Pittsburgh injury attorney, a trial attorney who routinely tries cases to verdict. Jeff primarily focuses his practice on workers’ compensation claims, workplace injuries and personal injury matters. Jeff has worked diligently on a wide array of personal injury cases, from automobile and motorcycle crashes, to workplace falls and premises liability.
Many times, Jeff’s workers’ compensation cases have spawned additional litigation, focusing on the negligence of third parties, including medical malpractice. Often these third party liability claims involve workers’ compensation issues involving liens, and sometimes very significant, wage and medical liens asserted on the third party liability claim. These types of cases must necessarily be resolved at the time of settlement or verdict on the third party liability claim. Jeff’s broad experience in that area allows him to identify when such claims are appropriate.
CASE RESULTS
• $1.3 million settlement – personal injury –motorcycle accident
• $535,000 – personal injury – settlement stemming from injuries sustained in a fall
• $367,000 – workers’ compensation – settlement stemming from a herniated disc
• $350,000 verdict – personal injury – stemming from an automobile accident
• $6,340,000 verdict – motorcycle accident, various injuries, including closed head injury
• $665,000 settlement involving a back injury occurring at a Steel Company – workplace injury
• $150,000 settlement – product liability claim involving a fractured wrist due to a defective product used in mountain climbing
• $350,000 settlement involving a blow to the head from falling glass at the workplace – involved a head injury
• Compromise and Release of workers’ compensation claim – $175,000.00 involving a knee injury
• $230,000.00 workers’ compensation settlement involving a wrist injury
• $130,000.00 settlement, back injury, no surgery
• $200,000.00 settlement involving fracture of the right foot with a diagnosis of reflex sympathetic dystrophy
• Workers’ compensation settlement – $55,000.00 arm injury
• $89,000.00 workers’ compensation settlement – back injury of City Employee
• $150,000.00 workers’ compensation settlement -injury torn left bilateral meniscus with an additional sum paid by the insurance carrier to fund a Medicare Set-Aside Trust for future medical expenses in the amount of $24,626.00
• Settlement, workers’ compensation claim – $150,000.00 shoulder injury to carpenter resulting in surgery and an inability to return to work as a carpenter.
PAST EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS
• McKeesport Area School District, School Director, 1989 – 1993
• McKeesport Area School District, Board President, 1992
• Pribanic & Pribanic, Member, 1989 – 2008
• Fayette County, PA, Assistant District Attorney
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
• American Association for Justice, 1989 – 1993
• Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association
