Robert Ross
Robert Ross, a founding partner at Ross Feller Casey, LLP, has established a preeminent presence in Pennsylvania and New Jersey through a series of remarkable courtroom victories and settlements, some of the largest in those states.
Ross's work on a broad range of catastrophic personal injury cases has resulted in upwards of $400 million in recoveries for his clients.
He was lead trial counsel in a case that resulted in the largest personal injury verdict in New Jersey for 2003. It involved Ana Gomez, an El Salvadorian immigrant who gave birth at the Atlantic City Medical Center and suffered extensive blood loss after the delivery. It took more than an hour for blood to arrive for a transfusion. The delay resulted in Mrs. Gomez's cardiac arrest, a loss of oxygen to her brain and, consequently, brain damage. A jury verdict of $22 million was handed down in her case (read about this case).
Ross was also the lead litigator in a medical malpractice case involving a podiatrist whose foot was amputated after she developed a hospital-based infection, which went undiagnosed and untreated. A Philadelphia jury returned a $20.8 million verdict (read about this case).
In 2003, Ross obtained a $18.5 million jury verdict for a girl whose doctors failed to consult a pediatric cardiac surgeon and remove two benign tumors on her heart. As a result, 6-year-old Kelsey Keen was forced to undergo a heart transplant -- a surgery that greatly reduced her life expectancy (read about this case).
After a young boy suffered anaphylactic shock and brain damage from eating peanuts, Ross argued that the doctors, pediatricians and allergist were all negligent for failing to warn the child's parents about the life-threatening nature of his allergy and because they didn't order an EpiPen, which could have prevented the incident. A jury returned a $10 million verdict. A month after the victory, Ross was selected as "Litigator of the Month" by the prestigious National Law Journal (read about this case).
Ross was also lead counsel in a case involving a woman who died of malaria. At trial, he argued that the woman was prescribed the wrong medication by her doctor and that her malaria was not timely diagnosed and treated in the hospital's emergency room. The jury returned a $5.8 million verdict (read about this case).
In his more than two decades in the courtroom, Ross has teamed with other lawyers for spectacular results:
- A $51 million verdict for the 1999 case of Shareif Hall, a 4-year old boy who had his foot torn off by a defective subway escalator (read about this case).
- A $29.6 million settlement in 2004 involving the Pier 34 collapse that killed three women and injured dozens of other people (read about this case).
- A $25 million verdict in 2001 in a medical malpractice case involving a female doctor who died after a routine fertility procedure.
- A $15 million verdict in 1999 for a Down Syndrome baby who suffered severe injury after medical errors were made during heart surgery.
Ross has been distinguished by his selection as a fellow to several prestigious organizations, including the American College of Trial Lawyers, which limits membership to merely one percent of the lawyers in each state, and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. This ultra-exclusive group is limited to 500 attorneys across the nation, and Ross is one of only 56 from Pennsylvania to be counted among its fellows.
As a member of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's Civil Procedural Rules Committee, Ross was involved in reviewing, revising and updating the Rules of the Committee. Ross graduated from Lafayette College in 1983, and Cornell Law School in 1986. He was formerly a partner in three other Philadelphia law firms: first, at the Cohen Shapiro firm, then at the Fox Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel, and at Kline & Specter, P.C.
He is a member of the Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and New Jersey bar associations, the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Associations, ATLA/NJ, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
