PA Car Accident Recoveries and Settlements

Ostroff Injury Law has obtained millions of dollars for families of PA car accident victims for over 20 years. We have been helping victims of serious accidents across Pennsylvania for over 20 years.

Here are some examples of our recoveries:

$5.7 million to a woman from Bradford County, PA who suffered facial and brain injuries when her car collided with the side of a truck. Though the police found her at fault originally, Jon proved that the driver of the truck she struck was actually responsible for the collision and Jon's client received an award that gave her financial security for the rest of her life.

$3.1 million for a mother and daughter injured in a high-speed collision near Pittsburgh, PA. Both mother and daughter suffered from leg and hip injuries. The van driver that collided with Jon's clients' car originally blamed a  car that supposedly fled the scene, but Jon found other witnesses and proved that there was no such vehicle and the van was to blame. Jon settled the mother's claim in less than a year and the daughter's claim a short time later.

$1.3 million to a man who severely injured his ankle after being hit in his car by a drunk driver near Scranton, PA. Even though the drunk driver only had a $500,000 insurance policy, Jon won an award for his client that was almost three times that amount.

A Closer Look:Another $1.3 million settlement.

This one started with our client suffering an ankle injury during a crash with a drunk driver. The injury took several costly surgeries to fix. The drunk driver at fault only had a $15,000 liability insurance policy to pay for our client’s medical costs. But our client was driving a car that had very good under-insured motorist (UIM) benefits totaling $500,000.

Jon pursued the full amount of this UIM insurance policy, the whole half-million, to cover his clients injuries, but the insurance company refused to pay it. The insurance company had a period of time to pay this amount and since they didn’t, the case went to arbitration.  The arbitrator's awarded Jon's client $1.3 million. Since the insurance company wouldn’t pay the $500,000 within a reasonable period of time, Jon took the chance to fight for more.

Just before the arbitration hearing, the insurance company offered Jon’s client $350,000 to avoid arbitration. Jon's client wanted to take this award but he trusted Jon, and Jon persuaded him to hold out and let him fight it out at arbitration. Jon told him the chances of him getting much more in arbitration were very high. Luckily, the client listened and he won almost a million dollars more because of it.

Jon indicated to the arbitration panel that his client deserved this $1.3 million to cover his costs and that the insurance company missed their chance to pay only the $500,000. He won this arbitration on behalf of his client and the client immediately received the $500,000. Over the next six months, he received a substantial portion of the entire award.