Wilkes & McHugh is excited to announce that Super Lawyers named nine of our personal injury attorneys to either the Super Lawyers or Rising Stars lists for 2018, including three new honorees.
Each year, the research team at Super Lawyers selects no more than 5 percent of lawyers in the state for the Super Lawyers list and no more than 2.5 percent of lawyers for the Rising Stars list.
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Wilkes & McHugh attorney Bill Murray spoke with The Philadelphia Inquirer about the nursing home chain Skyline. The company acquired more than 100 nursing homes across the country in just two short years. In March, state officials in Nebraska and Kansas had to take over control of the chain's facilities when the company announced it could not make payroll there. The Philadelphia Inquirer investigated what kind of scrutiny the Pennsylvania Department of Health applied to Skyline and its owner, Joseph Schwartz, before allowing the company to take over management of 10 facilities there. The answer was, not much.
A Lancaster County jury reached a unanimous verdict on May 3, 2018, in a case where a woman was sexually assaulted in a nursing home. The jury awarded $7.5 million in compensatory damages, but the parties reached a settlement before the punitive damages portion of the trial could begin. W&M attorneys Lorraine Donnelly, Matt Stone and Carl Wilander represented the family at the trial. Our firm was honored to help the Brace family find justice.
