Carmen P. Belefonte

Carmen Belefonte, the managing attorney of the firm’s Delaware County office in Media, PA, is a personal injury attorney. He focuses on medical malpractice cases, premises liability cases, and professional liability cases in Pennsylvania.

With more than 40 years of highly successful and diverse trial experience, Mr. Belefonte has achieved numerous multi-million dollar results for Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky clients, including:

• $12 million life care plan settlement for a two-year-old boy who suffered brain damage due to an emergency room misdiagnosis
• Substantial settlement for two victims who died in an apartment fire caused by faulty electric wiring
• $2,000,000-Plus  Malpractice Renders Paraplegic a Quadriplegic
• $1,000,000-Plus Traumatic Brain Injury Auto Accident
• $3,000,000-Plus Spinal Cord Injury Resulting in Paraplegia
• $1,000,000-Plus Fifteen Month Old Baby Death Case
• $1,000,000-Plus Fetal Death Case
• $2,000,000-Plus Permanent Injuries Due to Work Safety Issues at Waste Treatment Plant

Mr. Belefonte is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and holds a law degree from the Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University (1965). Due to his high academic ranking at Dickinson, he was an editor of the Law Review and member of the Woolsack Honor Society. Before entering private practice, Mr. Belefonte served as a litigator in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG Corps).

In January 2006, Mr. Belefonte merged his highly respected Media-based practice with Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky and is now the managing attorney of the firm’s Delaware County office.

In addition, Mr. Belefonte frequently lectures lawyers on effective trial advocacy.

He is also the solicitor of the Delaware Valley Regional Finance Authority and the Garrettford-Drexel Hill Volunteer Fire Company.