Latest WBS Highlights
Attorney Peter F. X. Callahan recently recovered one million dollars for a client in a civil rights/medical malpractice case involving failure to diagnose cancer and render proper and timely treatment. Pete Callahan along with Dennis Brogan also teamed up to obtain a recovery for a client in a hospital nursing malpractice case resulting in almost one quarter of a million dollars. Pete also co-prosecuted, along with Ed Sweeney, a sexual assault case in the employment environment and recovered just shy of $200,000 for another client. Pete has served as a prosecutor in the U.S. Marine Corps as well as in the District Attorney offices of Philadelphia and Delaware Counties.
David V. Grow, M.D., J.D. successfully concluded a medical malpractice death case involving emergency room care with respect to a patient with a dissecting aortic aneurysm which was not timely and properly diagnosed. Physician/attorney David Grow had practiced medicine for twenty-four years in his areas of internal medicine and cardiology before entering the law profession.
John J. Stanzione successfully litigated a work place premises safety case involving an amputee. It is anticipated that the combined recoveries in the liability case and the workers’ compensation resolution will approach $800,000 or more. John J. Stanzione recently completed a term as President of the Chester County Bar Association.
Attorney Edward C. Sweeney recently won a Commonwealth Court appeal in a novel Homeowner’s Association matter where a neighboring resident placed a row of arborvitae trees in front of his client’s home overlooking a golf course in a common area. Mr. Sweeney and Pete Callahan successfully fought a 2 ½ day bench trial which led to the removal of the trees and an award of attorneys fees against the neighboring resident as well as a determination that the Association’s Board failed to act with due diligence. Mr. Sweeney has also concluded a number of employment law discrimination cases, including a four-day trial involving a university professor in his claim for age discrimination with novel issues. Mr. Sweeney has been recognized by Main Line Today magazine as one of the top area employment lawyers on the Main Line.
Dennis D. Brogan, who concentrates his practice in workers’ compensation and civil litigation, continues to be the co-author of a prominent Pennsylvania state-wide legal publication on workers’ compensation law that many attorneys look to for guidance in their own practices. Dennis has also been selected for Super Lawyers in the area of personal injury.!
Joseph F. Wusinich, III has completed a term as President of the Honorable John E. Stively, Jr. American Inn of Court – Chester County Chapter, which is the teaching arm of the Bar Association for young lawyers seeking to become proficient in trial practice and advocacy. Over the years he has successfully handled medical malpractice, heavy truck liability and highway design cases, serious automobile accident and construction site injury cases resulting in numerous recoveries in the range from $300,000 to seven million dollars. Joe Wusinich has been practicing law in the Delaware Valley area for over thirty-five years. He formerly served as an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and later in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He is a Vietnam veteran.
The Wusinich, Brogan & Stanzione Law Firm has conducted litigation in cases in over twenty of Pennsylvania’s sixty-seven counties and in Federal Courts. Our attorneys, paralegals and support staff, continue to keep up with current trends in the law through continuing legal education courses, studied scholarship, and interaction with other attorneys and judges while engaged in this noble profession and high calling.
