RTJG client Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) secured a defense verdict in its favor in a negligence action tried before a jury in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in December 2025.
Plaintiff claimed she sustained a partial amputation of her right thumb when her hand came in contact with a “jagged edge” of a visitor’s chair while visiting her minor child in CHOP’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
Plaintiff’s theory of liability was that Plaintiff and her husband notified CHOP that the chair was broken, purportedly telling an unidentified nurse the arm of the chair was “annoying” prior to the incident, and, therefore, CHOP should have removed the chair. Defense counsel successfully argued that the mechanism of the injury was completely unknown, as the Plaintiff could not explain how the incident occurred, and there was no physical evidence linking the allegedly defective chair to Plaintiff’s injury.
The case was tried by RTJG Founding Member Francis Grey and Associate Karen Davis.
