Firm News, Updates and Press Mentions

The state Superior Court has upheld the $17.3 million judgment in a Philadelphia products liability case entered against the manufacturer of a racking system used in a frozen food warehouse.

A man rendered paraplegic after being crushed under a slab of granite has reached a $7 million settlement with the manufacturer of a stone cutting table and two distributors of the table.

Duffy + Partners obtained one of the "Largest Awards & Settlements in PA," according to the recently-released PaLAW Annual Report on the Legal Profession.

Others named to the 2011 list include Vice President Joe Biden, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy and Presidential Chief of Staff William Daley.

This article originally appeared in a special "Personal Injury Litigation" supplement of The Legal Intelligencer on Tuesday, November 15, 2011.

The "Best Law Firms" rankings are compiled in part by using evaluations by clients and other attorneys on such areas as responsiveness, expertise, understanding of a client's needs, and integrity.

Duffy is an accomplished commercial pilot who owns a collection of vintage wartime planes and who has participated in the show in the past (including a fantastic display that delighted fans in 2010).

A union glazier became permanently disabled after he had to dive to get out of the way of a crate of glass being unloaded by a crane.

Tom Duffy was the subject of a feature article in "The Philadelphia Lawyer," the quarterly magazine of the The Philadelphia Bar Association.

The jury found that the hospital was mostly responsible for a man falling into metabolic encephalopathy, or a brain disorder.