Ross Feller Casey leads Pennsylvania nursing home injury litigation from One Liberty Place, 1650 Market St. 34th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103, with over $3 billion in personal injury recoveries and $1 billion in four years for nursing home cases at 215-515-4401. The firm’s doctor-lawyers handle pressure ulcers on heels, feet, hips, buttocks, and tailbone, elder abuse including sexual assault and battery, wound infections causing sepsis and osteomyelitis, death from dehydration, and brain injuries from choking or aspiration. They address elopement from unsecured facilities, painful contractures, falls causing fractures and head trauma, bed rail entrapment deaths, catheter injuries to penis and bladder, plus catastrophic understaffing injuries. Ross Feller Casey pursues cases where hundreds of thousands suffer neglect annually through negligent hiring, understaffing, insufficient training, medication errors, and statutory violations. Harvard Law School praised them as “a firm that keeps setting new records,” while The Philadelphia Inquirer called them “among the nation’s top plaintiffs firms” with 75+ verdicts exceeding $10 million, offering free consultations without charges until recovery.
Joseph Monaco practices as a Cumberland County nursing home abuse lawyer from offices at 1818 Market Street, Suite 3200, Philadelphia, PA 19103 and 1 Eves Drive, Suite 111, Marlton, NJ 08053, with over 25 years of experience as a New Jersey Trial Lawyer. The firm handles cases involving bedsores, pressure sores (decubitus ulcers), inadequate supervision leading to falls, malnutrition, dehydration, improper staffing levels, improper staff training, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and financial abuse. Monaco represents residents throughout Cumberland County including Vineland, Bridgeton, and Millville, working to investigate how placing profits over safety contributed to harm. The practice offers free consultations and emphasizes thoroughly investigating the role of inadequate staffing, training deficiencies, and systemic failures in detecting serious medical conditions. Monaco continues a long tradition of fighting for victims while ensuring elderly residents receive justice when nursing homes fail to provide dignity and proper care standards required by law.
Heiligman & Mogul, P.C., established in 1983, operates from 135 South 19th Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19103, (215) 561-0111, holding nursing homes accountable for abuse by employees, managers, supervisors, CNAs, doctors, nurses, and other residents. The firm handles physical abuse including striking, pushing, tripping, or intentional injury; mental abuse through verbal humiliation, intimidation, deliberate ignoring, isolation, or punishment; and sexual abuse involving intentional non-consensual intimate touching or contact. They pursue cases where facilities negligently screen, train, hire, monitor, educate, and retain employees. Poorly screened or supervised staff abuse makes supervisors, managers, owners, and facilities liable. The firm addresses physical and sexual assaults by other residents enabled by lax security and poor supervision. Cases include facilities losing certification due to abuse. Beyond physical and emotional abuse, they handle financial exploitation where staff or residents exploit victims for financial gain. The attorneys take swift legal action for all abuse forms including inadequate medical care and emotional abuse. They file nursing home abuse lawsuits to obtain fair compensation including punitive damages for victims and families.
Jared S. Zafran leads Zafran Law Group from 1500 Walnut Street Suite 500, Philadelphia, PA 19102, handling nursing home neglect cases with attorneys Jonathan A. Fendler, Mark A. Verlin, Jonathan Grau, and over twenty additional lawyers. The firm addresses elder abuse affecting 1.3 million nursing home residents nationally, where one in six older adults faces abuse yearly and one in ten experiences neglect according to CDC and WHO data. With over 50% of Pennsylvania facilities rated below average by Medicare’s Nursing Home Compare, the attorneys investigate intentional abuse causing harm and neglect from carelessness or understaffing. Zafran’s team handles cases taking 18-24 months to resolve, proving facilities breached duty of care through medical neglect, inadequate nutrition, poor hygiene, or unsafe conditions leading to bedsores, falls, and infections. The practice operates on contingency fees from offices in Philadelphia, Blue Bell, Voorhees, Newark, and Hunt Valley, offering free consultations at 215-587-0038 to families whose loved ones suffered physical assault, emotional manipulation, sexual abuse, or financial exploitation. They pursue compensation for medical expenses, pain and suffering, emotional distress, and loss of quality of life under federal and Pennsylvania nursing home laws.
Kwartler Manus, LLC practices from 1429 Walnut Street 14th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19102, phone (267) 457-5570, with David E. Kwartler, Jason I. Manus, and team handling emotional abuse in nursing facilities. They address psychological abuse affecting approximately 2.5 million elderly victims annually according to the American Public Health Association, with 65% being women. The firm handles harassment, insults, humiliation, threats, verbal and nonverbal communication causing distress, including residents displaying emotional agitation, becoming withdrawn or non-communicative, behaving differently around certain people, experiencing humiliation, ridicule, intimidation through yelling, ignoring, isolation from activities, scapegoating, blaming, demeaning behavior, and terrorizing. With a Cherry Hill office at 413 Marlton Pike East Suite 300, NJ 08034, they’ve recovered millions for nursing home abuse victims. The practice emphasizes that emotional abuse lacks physical signs, making it difficult to identify, requiring skilled attorneys to gather facility evidence, work with doctors, and build compelling cases to maximize compensation for this severe problem affecting vulnerable residents nationwide.
Jeffrey Reiff leads Reiff Law Firm at 1500 John F. Kennedy Blvd #501, Philadelphia, PA 19102, phone (215) 709-6940, specializing in nursing home wrongful death cases. The firm handles deaths from nursing home abuse, medication errors where residents don’t receive prescriptions timely or staff use medications themselves, and malnutrition when residents are denied sufficient meals. They pursue wrongful death and survival claims under Pennsylvania law, with close family members (spouses, parents, children) eligible to file within two years of death. The practice addresses physical abuse, psychological abuse, sexual abuse, neglect causing bedsores and infections, and cases where residents were severely underweight at death. Attorneys Robert Szostak and Wade Suthard help prove duty of care violations, establishing how nursing homes failed reasonable standards. They’ve secured $2.875 million for premises liability with elevator shaft falls, $1.5 million for sidewalk injuries, and $5 million for lead paint exposure. The firm gathers medical records, clothing, correspondence, photographs of wounds, and maintains detailed timelines of abuse patterns.
The Law Office of W. Keith Williams II, P.C. operates from 710 1/2 Church Lane, Yeadon, PA 19050 and 1650 Arch Street #2501, Philadelphia, PA 19103, (610) 626-3855, protecting elderly residents’ rights under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987. Attorney W. Keith Williams II, with supporting counsel Troy Horton, Erica Bazzell, and Eric Pearson, handles cases where facilities violate federal standards for quality of life, resident rights, staffing requirements for licensed nurses, and training requirements for nursing assistants. The firm recognizes that 43% of Americans over sixty-five will reside in nursing homes, trusting facilities to provide high care levels despite severe health and conduct violations going undetected. The practice believes equal rights shouldn’t change with age, working to end gross injustices when negligence and abuse remain hidden or difficult to pinpoint. Offering free consultations and case evaluations, the Yeadon attorneys advise families suspecting wrongdoing to follow instincts and investigate potential violations of reformed oversight mechanisms focused on patient outcomes.
Wapner Newman operates from 1628 John F Kennedy Boulevard Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19103, phone (215) 569-0900, specializing in nursing home malpractice representation throughout Pennsylvania. This firm handles nursing malpractice cases involving medication errors, falls from inadequate supervision, pressure ulcers from improper turning protocols, dehydration, malnutrition, physical abuse, and financial exploitation of vulnerable residents. With additional offices in New Jersey at 16000 Commerce Parkway Suite C Mount Laurel, NJ 08054, West Conshohocken at Four Tower Bridge 200 Barr Harbor Drive Suite 400, Center Valley, and Harrisburg, the practice provides comprehensive coverage for nursing negligence claims. They pursue compensation for bedsores, inadequate patient assessments, inappropriate nursing interventions, equipment misuse, and failures to notify physicians of resident condition changes. The firm offers free consultations at 1-800-529-6600, handles wrongful death cases resulting from nursing malpractice, and works on contingency fees for all nursing home abuse matters.
