Following “Another Avoidable Pedestrian Tragedy”, SMB Attorneys Available to Discuss Legal Consequences

PHILADELPHIA, PA (February 8, 2023) – Catastrophic building-negligence attorneys from Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky, PC, are available to discuss the legal consequences of this morning’s Center City incident in which a 30-year-old pedestrian was struck and critically injured by falling concrete as she was walking by the building, undergoing masonry repairs, at 201 S. 13th Street.

SMB attorneys Robert J. Mongeluzzi and Andrew R. Duffy said, “There is absolutely no excuse for deadly concrete slabs falling from a building in Center City. Our thoughts go out to the victim who was critically injured in this avoidable tragedy. Proper safety planning by the building owner/management and the contractors performing the work must protect pedestrians from being struck by falling material. Those responsible for this inexcusable violation of basic project safety rules must be held accountable. Public safety must always be the first consideration at any project.”

The SMB team of building collapse, structural failure and construction accident attorneys has represented victims and their loved ones in numerous mass-casualty – often fatal – building collapses in Philadelphia and nationwide. It has obtained the three largest recoveries in building collapse cases in American history: $1.2 billion in the 2021 Surfside condominium collapse that killed 98 in Miami; $227 million in the Market Street building collapse in Philadelphia, and $101 million resulting from the Tropicana garage collapse in Atlantic City. NJ. The firm has also collected multi-million dollar recoveries in the 2015 collapse of a building onto the Lululemon store, Walnut St., Philadelphia, the structural failure of a railing at the Army-Navy game at Veteran’s Stadium, and the collapse of the Kimmel Center, when it was under construction.