Position: Partner
Address:
15 South Franklin Street
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711-0075
Email: E-Mail Me
Direct Dial: (570)826-5650
Direct Fax: (570)706-3416
Vcard:
Assistant's Name: Darlene A. Ashton
Assistant's E-Mail: E-Mail
PRACTICE
For more than 25 years, individuals around the state who have been injured through the fault of another or who are involved in disputes with insurance companies, have looked to Mr. Russo to help them get proper compensation and reimbursement for their injuries. His cases cover the landscape of personal injuries. The most common cases involve tractor trailer crashes; automobile, motorcycle and truck accidents; injuries caused by drunk drivers; injuries that result from landowner neglect; defective or dangerous products, and chiropractic or medical injury claims. The cases are often tragic, involving wrongful death, brain injuries, spinal cord, neck or back injuries, fractured bones, scarring, burns or RSD. Clients come to him for his tenaciousness, his trial skills and tireless energy in seeking to make them whole from their injury. Mr. Russo also handles claims against insurance companies who have acted in bad faith towards their insureds. A past president of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Mr. Russo serves as the Vice President of the Committee for Justice for All and on the Board of the Kevin Kitchnefsky Foundation for Spinal Cord Research. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Wilkes University and a cum laude graduate of Temple University Law School.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- Successfully represented singer, Gloria Estefan, her husband, Emilio Estefan, Jr., and their son, Nayib, for injuries they suffered when their tour bus was hit by a tractor-trailer. The settlement amount is confidential.
- $7.45 Million recovery for a Tunkhannock man who suffered a spinal cord injury and quadriplegia in a work place accident.
- $5.25 million recovery for a Kingston teen, who suffered a brain injury in a car accident, involving an insurance dispute with his underinsurance company.
- $3.0 Million settlement during the trial of a tractor- trailer crash that seriously injured an elderly retired Luzerne County woman.
- $2.0 Million settlement of a claim for bad faith against an insurance company.
- $1.02 Million recovery for a Montrose couple whose car was hit by a truck in Florida.
- $1.0 Million for a Wyoming County man who suffered head injuries in a car accident.
- $925,000 recovery for arm injuries to a security guard who was injured by a tractor trailer.
- $750,000 for a Nanticoke teenager injured on an Interstate highway by a tractor trailer.
- $675,000 settlement for a Plains Township man who was injured in a tractor trailer accident.
- $600,000 settlement for the estate of a Lackawanna County man who committed suicide after being injured in a car accident. The court recognized that this was a case of first impression in Pennsylvania.
- $570,000 for a Schuylkill County man who suffered a brain injury in a motorcycle accident.
- $400,000 recovered for a Pittston woman who suffered RSD as a result of a car accident.
- $225,000 settlement for two Monroe County children injured by a drunk driver.
- Confidential settlement for the parents of a Scranton toddler who died when his physician failed to diagnose pneumonia.
- Confidential settlement and accompanying verdict for the death of a Susquehanna County woman who died due to her doctors' failure to diagnose a brain aneurysm.
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EDUCATION
- Wilkes University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1977)
- Temple University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1980)
