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• News

  Rulings sought in Camden boys' car deaths

  • Four years after three Camden boys died in the trunk of a car, attorneys are asking a federal judge to decide whether police and government officials should be held liable. This week, opposing attorneys filed hundreds of pages in federal court asking U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Simandle to take their side by granting summary judgment.

  Life cycle of a lawsuit

  • How do lawyers choose their cases? In part one of this discussion on the life cycle of a lawsuit, Ringler Radio host Larry Cohen and co host Bill Wakelee, settlement annuity specialist in the Philadelphia office of Ringler Associates, welcome Villari, Brandes & Kline, P.C., partner Paul Brandes, Esquire. Brandes discuss the rigid process the law firm uses to evaluate the merits of a client's case, the factual and legal criteria a case must meet to justify filing a lawsuit on behalf of their client, and who is involved in litigating and trying the case on behalf of the client.

  Baby gets stem cell treatment

  • NBC’s Michael Okwu reports on one little boy who’s made a dramatic recovery from his diagnosis of cerebral palsy thanks to some cutting-edge treatment.
    MSNBC
    March 11, 2008
• Press Releases

  VILLARI, BRANDES & KLINE PLAYS SIGNIFIGANT ROLE IN IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION

  • As a result of VBK's work, State environmental regulators were compelled to concede that the components or constituents of coal ash waste are, indeed, toxic or hazardous and therefore ordered all parties responsible for the disaster to properly clean up or purchase the affected properties, waterways and land.

  VILLARI, BRANDES & KLINE, P.C. ATTORNEY PAUL D. BRANDES PRESENTS AT TUCKER COMPANY WORLDWIDE INC.’S 2009 STRATEGIC COUNCIL MEETING.

  • Villari, Brandes & Kline P.C., announced today that Paul D. Brandes, Esq. was a featured presenter at Tucker Company Worldwide Inc.’s 2009 Strategic Council Meeting.

  VILLARI, BRANDES & KLINE, P.C. ATTORNEY DAVID B. KLINE PRESENTS AT SPANISH AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION

  • Villari, Brandes & Kline P.C., announced today that Equity Partner David B. Kline presented at Spanish American Civic Association on September 30, 2009.

  PERSONAL INJURY ATTORNEYS PETER M. VILLARI AND PAUL D. BRANDES NAMED “SUPERLAWYERS” FOR 2009

  • Personal injury attorneys Peter M. Villari and Paul D. Brandes of the law firm Villari Brandes & Kline have been recognized by their peers as some of the best in the business.

  PLAINTIFF ATTORNEYS FOR FLY ASH VICTIMS PRAISE DECISION TO ALLOW EPA OVERSIGHT IN CLEANUP – YET CHALLENGES REMAIN

  • Villari, Brandes & Kline (“VBK”) announced today that the recent agreement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (“TVA”) under Superfund law to allow the EPA to directly oversee daily cleanup activities of the TVA coal ash waste spill in Kingston, TN, is a step in the right direction, but still presents challenges for the victims.

  VILLARI, BRANDES & KLINE EXPANDS COMPLEX LITIGATION PRACTICE

  • Jeff Gutkowski, Esquire, to focus on medical malpractice and other catastrophic personal injury cases.

  Paul D. Brandes Appointed to Investigative Division of The Philadlephia Bar Association's Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention

  • Villari, Brandes & Kline P.C., announced today that Paul D. Brandes, Esquire, was recently appointed by the Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association to be an investigator in the investigative division of the association's Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention.

  Over $1 Mil. Awarded to Family of Breast Cancer Medical Malpractice Victim

  • Attorneys Peter M. Villari and Paul D. Brandes of Villari, Brandes and Kline, P.C., announced today that after a five-day trial, a Dauphin County jury awarded $1,225,000 to their client, the family of Genevieve A. Lupp, because a Harrisburg radiology group negligently failed to timely diagnose and recommend treatment of what turned out to be early stage breast cancer.

  Villari, Brandes & Kline, P.C., Attorney David B. Kline Presents at Spanish American Civic Association

  • Villari, Brandes & Kline, P.C., attorney David B. Kline presented at the Spanish American Civic Association on 545 Pershing Ave. in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 17, 2008.

  Paul D. Brandes Elected to the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association

  • Villari, Brandes & Kline P.C., announced today that Paul D. Brandes, Esquire, has just been elected to the board of directors of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.

  Villari, Brandes & Kline Expands Complex Litigation Practice

  • Three new associates to focus on medical malpractice and other catastrophic personal injury cases.

  Villari, Brandes & Kline, P.C., Attorney David B. Kline to Speak at the Neighbours Inc. High School Transition Project

  • Villari, Brandes & Kline, P.C., attorney David B. Kline will speak on Special Education advocacy and guardianship issues at the Neighbours Inc. High School Transition Project on March 12th, 2008, from 6:00-8:00 P.M. at the Delaware County Intermediate Unit, 200 Yale Avenue, Morton, PA.
• Villari, Brandes & Kline In the News

  Breast Cancer Litigation

  • Legal Talk Network
    January 5, 2009
    In October of 2008, the husband of a woman named Genevieve Lupp was awarded over $1.2 million by a jury after a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania radiology group failed to timely diagnose and treat her for breast cancer, which ultimately resulted in her untimely death. Ringler Radio host Larry Cohen and co host Bill Wakelee, settlement annuity specialist in the Philadelphia office, welcome Attorney Peter M. Villari, partner at the firm, Villari, Brandes & Kline, P.C., and the plaintiff lawyer who pursued this case to a judgment, to discuss the case and breast cancer litigation. They will take a look at this case, focus on the verdict and discuss the importance of timely diagnosis and treatments of breast cancer.

  Diversity Still Low, Optimism High in Plaintiffs Bar

  • The Legal Intelligencer
    July 21, 2008

  The Worth of Family Values

  • PAJustiice News
    April, 2008

  Bus Crash in Europe Gives Pa. Attorney a Taste of Italian Law

  • The Legal Intelligencer
    February 15, 2008

  Pittsburgh-area residents sue state DEP, demand fly ash cleanup

  • The Times Leader
    September 10, 2007

  Succession Planning Important To Viability of Midsized, Small Firms

  • The Legal Intelligencer
    May 9, 2007

  Firm Finds Success With Birth Injury Cases

  • The Legal Intelligencer
    March 7, 2007

  Pa. Lawyer Wins $2.8 Million Med-Mal Case

  • The Legal Intelligencer
    November 11, 2006

  Software Will Assist With Malpractice Cases

  • Philadelphia Business Journal
    August 6-12, 2004
    VOLUME 23 - NUMBER 25

  The Med-Mal Debate: Whose Crisis Is It?

  • By Peter M. Villari
    Pennsylvania Lawyer
    MARCH - APRIL 2003
    VOLUME 25 - NUMBER 2
• Motor Carriers Held Responsible father’s death

  No Immunity for Negligent Hiring of Outside Trucker

  • New Jersey Law Journal
    June 2, 2006

  No Immunity for Waste Hauler That Negligently Hires Outside Trucker

  • New Jersey Law Journal
    May 29, 2006

  Justices: Big rig's victims can sue

  • The Star-Ledger
    May 23, 2006

  Paul Brandes secures major victory for his clients and motorists nationwide in a case before the Supreme Court of New Jersey (click here to read the Court's opinion in Puckrein v. ATI Transport, Inc.)

  • Based on the arguments made by Paul Brandes of Villari Brandes & Kline, the Supreme Court of New Jersey ruled that the firm's clients (the Puckrein and Greaves families) can seek to hold the world's second largest commercial waste hauler/transporter, Allied Waste, Inc./Browning-Ferris Industries of New York, liable for the deaths of Kevin and Alecia Puckrein, and the injuries to Jean Greaves caused when a tractor-trailer with missing brakes and no insurance violently crashed into their car at an intersection while the tractor-trailer was hauling a load for BFI. Mr. and Mrs. Puckrein left behind two young children. Paul was successful in arguing that the Court should create new law, requiring companies that are largely engaged in the transport of goods over the highways (like Allied Waste/BFI) to make certain that the independent trucking companies and drivers they hire are competent and insured. With tractor-trailers causing 5,000 deaths each year on the highways -- a significant portion of which are caused by incompetent and uninsured tractor-trailer drivers and their poorly maintained trucks -- this ruling goes a long way to furthering public safety and insuring that innocent victims of these goliaths of the highway are not left uncompensated.

  Puckrein v. ATI Transport/NJ Supreme Ct oral argument re: tractor-trailer accident

  • Over 5,000 people are killed on our nation's highways each year by tractor-trailers, many of which do not have proper insurance and registration. The end result, devastated families left without proper and fair compensation/Paul D. Brandes Argues Before the New Jersey Supreme Court that Companies who hire Uninsured or Unregistered Independent Tractor-Trailer Operators or Motor Carriers Should be Held Responsible for the Damages and Deaths Negligently Caused by those Tractor-Trailers and their Drivers
• Environmental Disasters

  Fly ash landslide victims file more lawsuits

  • Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
    January 26, 2007

  Forward residents look to court for more fly ash relief

  • The Daily News
    October 16, 2006

  Neighbors of fly ash slide now seeking relief in court

  • Valley Independent
    October 13, 2006

  Fly ash lawsuit expected

  • The Daily News
    February 14, 2006

  DEP to address Forward Twp. fly ash concerns at Feb. 9 meeting

  • The Daily News
    February 2, 2006

  Attorney: Fly ash still a danger in Forward Twp.

  • The Daily News
    November 12, 2005

  Forward Township residents want session with state DEP

  • Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
    September 29, 2005
• Improper police search leads to childrens’ death

  Family of one boy has filed lawsuit; other two may

  • Courier-Post
    June 22, 2006

  Mother of Camden Victims Remembers

  • KYW CBS 3
    June 22, 2006

  Camden pain lingers 1 year after trunk tragedy

  • New York Daily News
    June 18, 2006

  Mother sues police over death of son

  • Courier-Post
    April 6, 2006

  Dead boy's mother sues over search

  • The Philadelphia Inquirer
    April 5, 2006

  Mom named executor of boy's estate

  • Courier-Post
    November 15, 2005

  Monica Yant Kinney | In Camden, it's time for lawyers

  • Philadelphia Inquirer
    August 23, 2005

  Camden police didn't follow own rules

  • Philadelphia Daily News
    August 13, 2005

  Editorial | THE CAMDEN TRAGEDY

  • Philadelphia Daily News
    August 8, 2005

  Editorial | Report on Camden Trunk Deaths

  • Philadelphia Inquirer
    August 4, 2005

  News Coverage: CN8 "It's Your Call"

  • August 3, 2005
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  What went wrong in search for 3 Camden boys?

  • Philadelphia Inquirer
    July 25, 2005

  Report delayed on how car trunk wasn't checked

  • Philadelphia Daily News
    July 23, 2005

  Sources: Errors marked tragic search

  • Philadelphia Daily News
    July 20, 2005

  Boys alive during search, coroner says

  • Philadelphia Inquirer
    July 20, 2005

  Thousands pay respects at service for boys found in trunk

  • Philadelphia Daily News
    June 30, 2005

  Crowds Gather at Boys' Funeral to Mourn and to Vent

  • New York Times
    June 30, 2005

  News Coverage: ABC 6

  • June 28, 2005
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  News Coverage: CBS 3

  • June 28, 2005
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• Trucking Accident Cases

  Lawyer links trucker's messaging system to fatal crash

  • The Mercury
    October 4, 2002

  Fatal crash blamed on dashboard computer

  • Times Herald
    October 2, 2002