Justice For Victims of Wrongful Death
They Hurt You. It’s Time To Fight Back.
We help victims stand up to some of the largest and most powerful businesses in the U.S. If your loved one was fatally injured as the result of somebody else’s negligence, we’re the wrongful death attorneys you need to have on your side.
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“Losing a loved one due to another’s carelessness is devastating. Families who have had a loved one taken from them ask SMB to find out what happened, find out who is responsible and, most importantly, make sure it never happens to anyone again.”
– Robert J. Mongeluzzi
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"Among the nation’s most successful personal injury firms.”
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"Known both for surgically precise trial technique and for the hundreds of millions of dollars won in verdicts and settlements for clients.”
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
Skilled Attorney Teams
The wrongful death lawyers at Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky (SMB) have extensive experience successfully representing families in complex wrongful death lawsuits. Since its founding in 1998, SMB has developed a national reputation as one of the country’s most successful personal injury law firms. Led by partner and founder Bob Mongeluzzi, SMB has built upon its initial foundation as the leading Philadelphia firm for worksite injuries and medical malpractice to become a national powerhouse in personal injury law.
With a roster of nationally-known practitioners and formidable financial resources, SMB has taken on some of the country’s most complex, technical, data-heavy, and document-intensive cases and won.
About Wrongful Death Lawsuits
Wrongful death lawsuits can arise from negligent conduct occurring in many different contexts, including:
- Boating & Maritime Accidents
- Crane Accidents
- Dram Shop/Liquor Liability Claims
- Drowning Accidents
- Defective Automobiles
- Electrical Accidents
- Fraternity Hazing
- Industrial Accidents
- Medical Malpractice
- Negligent Security
- Nursing Home Neglect
- Premises Liability Claims
- Products Liability
- Structural Collapses
- Train Accidents
The Wrongful Death Lawyers With Unmatched Results
Over the three decades since its founding, SMB has secured countless multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements for our clients in wrongful death cases, including:
- $1,200,000,000 Partner Jeffrey Goodman leads the way to a record-setting $1.2 billion settlement in Surfside condo collapse litigation. Read Story
- $265,000,000 Settlement was reached in the May 2015 Amtrak Train No. 188 derailment in which 8 people died and over 200 were injured. The case settled for a ... Read Story
- $227,000,000 $227 million in damages will be paid to the 19 plaintiffs—including the loved ones of the seven that died in the June 5, 2013, Salvation Army ... Read Story
- $160,000,000 U-Haul Co. of Pennsylvania will pay a record $160 million in a settlement after a Feltonville food truck exploded nearly four years ago, killing a ... Read Story
- $124,260,000 A Montgomery County jury has awarded $124 million in a civil case against Rafael Robb, the former University of Pennsylvania economics professor who ... Read Story
- $101,000,000 A global settlement worth more than $101 million has been reached in the massive litigation stemming from the October 2003 collapse of the Tropicana ... Read Story
The Wrongful Death Lawyers with Unmatched Experience
The wrongful death lawyers at SMB understand that the families of those who were killed by the negligence of others—including individuals, businesses, municipalities, or healthcare providers—want answers to questions like:
- How could this have happened?
- Who was responsible for this tragedy?
- What can be done to ensure that no other families have to endure similar tragedies?
We put our vast resources and decades of experience to use to get to the bottom of your wrongful death case and to figure out exactly what happened, why it happened, and who is responsible. We are not afraid to go to court and litigate to obtain compensation for our wrongful death clients.
Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky has been achieving justice for victims of wrongful death for more than 30 years, and no law firm does it better.
If your family member has been killed because of the negligence or carelessness of some other person, business, government, or other institution, and SMB agrees to take your wrongful death case:
- You will pay nothing to us unless we win.
- We will make claims on your behalf against all responsible parties.
- We will engage the best experts, physicians, scientists, and others to help us prove your claims.
- We will use the latest technology and methods to prove your case.
- We will give your case the time it needs to be as successful as possible.
- We will take your case to trial if we need to.