$9.1 Million Jury Verdict for Death of Golf Pro Crushed by Fallen Tree
$9.1 million in damages was awarded by a Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas jury following the 2020 death of beloved Philmont Country Club golf professional Justin Riegel.
Mr. Riegel was fatally crushed by a massive, overgrown oak tree that course management should have assessed, condemned and removed. Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky represented Mr. Riegel’s widow and child, who was born after the horrific incident, at the two-week trial. The verdict is believed to be among the largest of its kind in a lethal, workplace tree-collapse case in Pennsylvania.