Stewart L. Cohen - Attorney Profile

Phone: (215) 567-3500
Toll Free: (888) 375-7600
Fax: (215) 567-6019
scohen@cprlaw.com 

Office:
Philadelphia

Mailing Address:
2001 Market Street 29th floor
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
United States

He has been selected by his peers to be included in the 2007 edition of the Best Lawyers of America®.  In 2005, his jury verdict of 25 Million Dollars in a personal injury case in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania was recognized by The National Law Journal to be one of the Top 100 Verdicts in the United States that year.  He was lead counsel in a groundbreaking national class action settlement which reimbursed union health and welfare funds, self-insured employers, and insurers ("third-party payors"), for losses caused by the withdrawal of Baycol® cholesterol medication.

Education:

Law School: Temple University School of Law, J.D., (1977)

College: Pennsylvania State University, B.A., with high distinction in the Honors Program, (1973)

Academic Awards and Teaching Experience: 

Phi Beta Kappa, (1973); Phi Kappa Phi, (1973); Adjunct Professor of Law, Widener University School of Law, (1985 -1995); Distinguished Alumni Award, Pennsylvania State University, (2007)

Community and Bar Association Activities:

Disciplinary Board of Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Member (April, 2007 - Present); Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania, President and Board Member (2001 - Present); United Cerebral Palsy of Philadelphia and Vicinity, Vice President and Board Member (2002 - Present); Lower Merion Township, Chairman of the Environmental Advisory Council and Vice Chair of the Planning Commission, (1988 - 1994); Disciplinary Board Hearing Committee, Member and Chair, (1992 - 1998) and (2003 - 2007); Philadelphia Bar Association, Member, State Civil Judicial Procedures Committee, (1987 - Present); Pennsylvania Bar Association, Member, Judicial Selection and Reform Committee, (1987); Pennsylvania Bar Association, Member, House of Delegates (1994 - 1996); American Bar Association, Member, Tort and Insurance Practice, (1986 - Present); Member, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York Bar Associations, The Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association and Lawyers Club of Philadelphia.

Notable Writings:

"Liability of Insurance Sales Professionals for Negligent Errors and Omissions, A Review of Pennsylvania Law", Pennsylvania Bar Assn Quarterly, Vol. LXX, No.2, April 1999;  "Human Engineering in Civil Torts Proceedings", Handbook of Psychology and Law, Publisher, Springer-Verlag, 1992;  "Subrogation", Risk Management, Volume 37, No. 5, May, 1990;  "Resolving Insurance Coverage Disputes in Pennsylvania Through Principles of Tort Law", Pennsylvania Bar Assn. Quarterly, Vol. LX, No. 4, October, 1989;  "Subrogation: The Recovery Route", Best's Review, Property/Casualty Edition, Volume 90, No. 3, July 1989;  "Contributory Negligence by Any Other Name is Still Inadmissible in a Strict Liability Claim", The Barrister, Volume XV, No. 4, 1984.

Speaking Engagements:

Frequent speaking engagements over the last 5 years at the request of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Associations and the Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania at various occasions and as part of continuing legal education seminars on the subjects of personal injury litigation, insurance litigation, brain injury litigation, products liability, pharmaceutical liability, damages and ethics involving representation of persons with disabilities.

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