Joseph N. Bongiovanni IV

Joseph N. Bongiovanni is a Principal in the firm's Professional Liability Department. He represents clients in complex litigation, including defense of health care providers, physicians, nurses, hospitals, physicians assistants, and nurse practitioners at trials, mediations and arbitrations.

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• Following oral argument at the start of trial and consistent with written submissions and motions, obtained dismissal of client/doctor in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in a case alleging failed diagnosis of stroke by emergency medicine provider(s).  
• Obtained a defense verdict for an electrical supplier following a two-week jury trial in Philadelphia County, Court of Common Pleas. While at work in a factory, the plaintiff, a factory employee, crawled under equipment to clean residue from the moving rollers of a conveyor belt when his arm became entangled in the rollers and he sustained catastrophic injuries to his wrist, arm, and shoulder. Plaintiff, who initially demanded $8 million, claimed permanent and disabling injury of his dominant arm, a complete inability to return to work, and the requirement of lifelong medical care. 
• Following oral argument and written submissions, secured summary judgment and dismissal in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on behalf of a psychiatric nurse whose employer had contracted with a correctional facility to provide inmate mental health care, in a case where the decedent’s estate alleged the defendants denied the decedent adequate medical care, causing his death by suicide, and violating his constitutional rights.
• Obtained summary judgment in the Court of Common Pleas, Washington County, PA on behalf of a comprehensive health and human service provider and its affiliate corporation in a case where the decedent’s estate alleged that the negligence of defendants and the defendants’ failure to supervise the decedent while she was residing in a community residential rehabilitation services facility caused the decedent’s death. 
• Obtained summary judgment in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Camden County on behalf of an emergency medicine provider in a case where the plaintiff alleged that the defendant medical providers and hospitals’ failure to timely treat and diagnose a post-partum infection caused severe injuries. 
• Following a 2 ½ week jury trial in Philadelphia County, obtained defense verdict on behalf of a physician assistant in a case where the decedent’s estate alleged that the defendants failed to diagnose the decedent with deep vein thrombosis/pulmonary embolism, leading to the decedent’s death.