Our Pennsylvania lawyers practice law and fight for clients throughout Pennsylvania including Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster and Philadelphia Counties. Contact us if you are seeking a lawyer in Harrisburg PA or Philadelphia; West Chester or Allentown; Norristown or Lebanon; Lancaster or York. We are the Pennsylvania Personal Injury Lawyers you will come to trust when it matters. Our practice areas also include Criminal Defense, Family Law and Civil Litigation.

Our Personal Injury and Automobile Accident Practice is for individuals and their family seriously injured in Pennsylvania because of the negligence of another. Our personal injury practice includes fighting for individuals injured at work, in construction accidents, work injuries and in workers compensation matters.  Speak to one of our experienced Pennsylvania Personal Injury Lawyers when you have been injured in a motor vehicle accident or other type of personal injury action.  Learn more.

Ciccarelli Lawyers are Pennsylvania Automobile Accident Lawyers; personal injury lawyers based in West Chester PA and Kennett Square PA who represent individuals injured in car, motorcycle, tractor trailer accident on Pennsylvania roads, who need an experienced personal injury lawyer to fight for their right to just financial compensation, medical benefits, and life planning.    Learn more at our automobile accident website.

Our Criminal Defense practice is for Pennsylvania cases involving criminal charges, criminal arrests and criminal complaints; traffic and speeding matters, DUI and drunk driving charges, juvenile and student crimes, probation violation matters and criminal record expungement and pardon cases. Learn more.

Our Pennsylvania Family Law practice involves representation in Family Court for divorce, mediation, custody, support, alimony, adoption and parental termination issues. Our West Chester PA Divorce practice primarily focuses on Chester County Divorce, Chester County Custody and Chester County Family Law matters, though our office also handles divorce, domestic violence and pfa matters throughout Pennsylvania including Delaware County, Lancaster County, Montgomery County and Philadelphia.  Learn more.

Our Civil Litigation practices include business and corporate law, employment law, wills and estates and probate law.  Contact us if you are seeking a Chester County lawyer for real estate, contract preparation, contract disputes, collection matters, incorporation, and estate planning.

Ciccarelli Lawyers are devoted and impassioned attorneys serving clients in Pennsylvania matters from our main location at 304 North High Street, West Chester PA 19380 in Chester County Pennsylvania.  Our Chester County law practice services clients in Kennett Square, West Chester, Downingtown, Coatesville, Oxford, Parkesburg, Phoenixville, Malvern, and Paoli. Consider us as your Chester County Personal Injury Lawyer, Chester County Criminal Lawyer, Chester County DUI Lawyer, Chester County Divorce or Chester County Family Law Lawyer. Contact us at (610) 692-8700.

We are pleased to announce our new address, which is centrally located in West Chester PA and more effectively provide services to our clients as our law firm continues to grow and prosper.  Our location at 304 North High Street, West Chester PA is still close to the Chester County Judicial Center but allows for more easy access to our clients with easy parking on High Street and easier access from the surrounding areas including Exton, Malvern, Devon, Paoli, Downingtown, Thorndale, and Coatesville.

Our main location at 304 North High Street now provides us the benefit of state of the art technology and benefits to our clients, including but not including multiple conference room support.  Our location benefits our litigation practice and provides the perfect locale for preparing for favorable litigation outcomes in personal injury, criminal defense and family law.  We can be reached at (610) 692-8700.

Ciccarelli Law Offices was successful in obtaining a significant settlement in a medical malpractice case recently.  Chester County Personal Injury Lawyers Lee Ciccarelli and Joshua Janis represented a woman who suffered temporary pain and suffering following a surgical procedure.  During the course of the operation, the hospital staff failed to completed remove all surgical sponges from the affected area before closing the wound with sutures.  Fortunately, the medical malpractice was determined shortly after the surgery but not before infection developed causing a new round of treatment.  After totally recovering from the incident, the Personal Injury Team of Ciccarelli Lawyers was successful in obtaining a substantial settlement in the amount of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars.  Have you been the victim of a significant personal injury action and need a team of experienced injury lawyers at your side?  Contact our personal injury lawyers.  Our main location is 304 North High Street, West Chester PA 19380 and we have satellite offices throughout the area.  We fight for justice and a just monetary aware for our injured clients facing pain and suffering throughout Pennsylvania including the Philadelphia metropolitan area.  Contact us (610) 692-8700. ]]> http://www.ciccarelli.com/2012/02/5-million-dollar-settlement-in-medical-malpractice-case/feed/ 0 http://www.ciccarelli.com/2012/02/not-guilty-verdict-in-chester-county-aggravated-assault-case/ http://www.ciccarelli.com/2012/02/not-guilty-verdict-in-chester-county-aggravated-assault-case/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:15:12 +0000 admin http://www.ciccarelli.com/?p=631 (West Chester)  Justice for a Ciccarelli Law Offices client:  Attorney Steve Jarmon of Ciccarelli Law Offices was successful in obtaining a Not Guilty verdict in a recent Chester County Criminal Trial.  The Chester County District Attorney’s office had been prosecuting the case and was alleging that the client, acting in a drunken rage, tried to choke the alleged victim and cause her serious bodily injury.  Chester County Criminal Attorney Steve Jarmon was successful in using a combination of intense cross-examination, defense testimony and collaborating evidence to put in doubt the alleged victim’s dramatic retelling of the purported domestic incident.  Through his cross examination, Steve Jarmon, the Chester County Criminal Lawyer, the jury was able to consider the victim’s own testimony that she was not fearful of the husband, and question her own veracity.   Steve Jarmon is an important part of the Ciccarelli Law Offices Criminal Defense Team, based at 304 North High Street, West Chester PA 19380 and fighting to get justice for the accused in the metropolitan Philadelphia area and throughout Pennsylvania

Our main location at 304 North High Street now provides us the benefit of state of the art technology and benefits to our clients, including but not including multiple conference room support.  Our location benefits our litigation practice and provides the perfect locale for preparing for favorable litigation outcomes in personal injury, criminal defense and family law.  We can be reached at (610) 692-8700.

The defendant entered a plea to misdemeanor charges of endangering the welfare of a child. As part of a deal between her attorney and the prosecution, Judge Anthony Sarcione sentenced her to three years of probation and ordered her to undergo substance abuse and psychological evaluations and comply with all recommended treatment.

The circumstances surrounding her arrest made headlines across the region. In her plea agreement, she admitted letting her daughter sit in the front driver’s seat of her SUV as it was “moving slowly in the travel lane of Walnut Street” in Coatesville on the afternoon of Sept. 6.

It was unclear whether the car’s engine had been running prior to police spotting it. It had not gone a significant distance from when police first saw the car to when they took Hogue into custody.

Initially, authorities indicated that the defendanthad forced her daughter to drive the car because she was too intoxicated at the time.   The Defendant’s reportedly laughed about the incident and said she was teaching her daughter to drive, police said. The arresting officer said the defendant had bloodshot, glassy eyes and appeared “very nonchalant about the whole situation.”

The relative, who was not named in the criminal complaint, then asked the girl: “Was your mom smoking that stinky stuff again?” The girl then allegedly replied, “yes” with tears in her eyes.

The 6-year-old female driver was “almost hanging off the steering wheel,” an officer said during testimony at the defendant’s preliminary hearing. “You could see approximately half of her face. Her nose was at the steering wheel.”

The defendant had been free on bail since her arrest pending the resolution of the case involving her daughter. In March, she pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a confrontation with city police in March 2009 when she objected to her son being taken into custody. She was sentenced to 90 days probation on a summary charge of disorderly conduct.

 Assistant District Attorney Kimberly Callahan, of the district attorney’s Child Abuse Unit, said the sentence fell under the standard range of the state’s sentencing guidelines. She said her office took into consideration whether the 6-year-old, and the defendant’s other children, were safe and determined that they are.

According to the plea agreement, the defendant will have to follow recommendation made by the county’s Dependency Court regarding her children, who live with the defendant and her family. Callahan said no problems had been reported since her arrest in September. 

Sometimes we make choices that can hurt our family and friends. Don’t let these choices ruin your life. Let the experienced lawyers at Ciccarelli Law Offices fight for you.

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The word “miraculous” scarcely describes the survival of a Santa Maria, California police officer who wrapped his Ford Police Interceptor around a tree Sunday morning. It’s what the local Police Chief calls the “worst accident he’s seen in 35 years.”

Sunday was a busy day for the members of the Santa Maria Police Department, starting with a police chase that resulted in a stolen car crashing into a first grade classroom of a local school. But that’s not where this amazing crash happened.

Hours later, Officer Damon Badnell was responding to an officer involved in a foot pursuit of a burglary suspect when he lost control of his vehicle on a slippery road. The momentum wrapped the vehicle around the tree, nearly bisecting the Ford Crown Victoria.

The officer, who recently was awarded for stopping the most drunk drivers, has a few broken bones but doctors are hopeful about his recovery. 

Automobile accidents are serious events that can cause both physical and mental pain. Trust the attorneys at Ciccarelli Law to seriously handle your case and get you the help you need and deserve.

The defendant is accused of taking the $82,067 that her 81-year-old aunt had coming from a second mortgage on her Fifth Avenue home in Phoenixville and spending it on herself, leaving her aunt, who was suffering from dementia at the time, in danger of losing the home her husband had bought for the couple in 1956.

Ashton had told her aunt, that she would repay the money, which she needed for personal expenses, authorities said. But she never did. The house was foreclosed on and Voytowicz faced eviction until family members and attorneys stepped in and saved the home from being sold out from under her.

The aunt died in November 2008 after suffering a debilitating stroke. She was 84.

On Wednesday, the defendant pleaded guilty to charges of theft by deception, theft by unlawful taking, theft by failure to make required disposition of funds and receiving stolen property. The plea ended her trial on those charges, which had begun in Judge William P. Mahon’s courtroom Monday.

Mahon told the defendant her guilty plea simply hastened the inevitable.

“This would have been one of the swiftest deliberations any jury had ever gone through to convict you on these charges,” Mahon told the defendant, 57. He said he spoke out of his 11 years on the bench, as well as his reading of the jurors, who he sensed were ready to find her guilty.

Now, she faces sentencing on the charges. She will be held in Chester County Prison while a pre-sentencing report is completed.

The incident happened just before 4 p.m. Wednesday at Ferncroft Lane and Sunderland Avenue in Chester Springs, Pa., officials say.

The unidentified 7-year-old was airlifted by medical helicopter to the A.I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del. with serious injuries, officials say. He was last listed in critical condition.

The student is a first grader who attends Pickering Valley Elementary School, officials say.

It’s unclear what led to the accident, but the boy was hit by the same school bus he had ridden home from school on, police say.

The investigation is ongoing.

CHICAGO – Claims-processing errors by health insurance companies create billions of dollars in unnecessary administrative costs, slow down payments to doctors and frustrate patients, the main U.S. doctor’s group said on Monday.

The American Medical Association said one-fifth of all claims are mishandled by health insurers.

Begun in 2008, the association’s annual “National Health Insurer Report Card” rated the nation’s eight largest health insurers in how they handle claims, and concluded that if all problems were resolved the system would save $15.5 billion annually in administrative costs.

Currently, the health care system spends as much as $210 billion annually on claims processing, according to the report issued at the AMA’s annual meeting. Doctors have long complained about excessive paperwork required to satisfy insurance companies.

“Each insurer uses different rules for processing and paying medical claims, which cause complexity, confusion and waste,” former AMA President Dr. Nancy Nielsen said in a statement accompanying the report.

“Simplifying the administrative process with standardized requirements will reduce unnecessary costs in the health system” that often requires doctors to file different forms to each insurer, she said.

The AMA described mishandling as claims processed with errors – underpaid, overpaid or incorrectly unpaid.

Among the eight companies, Conventry Health Care was rated the best with an accuracy rate for processing and paying claims of 88.4 percent. Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield was at the bottom with a score of 74 percent.

The overall accuracy rate was 80 percent, with each 1 percentage point improvement worth $778 million in savings in unnecessary administrative costs, the AMA said.

Still, the AMA said insurers led by privately owned United Healthcare made progress since 2008 in accurately reporting the fees paid to contracted doctors.

All except Cigna Corp had gotten slower since 2008 in responding to claims, with responses coming between five and 13 days. Insurers made better use of websites to disclose policies and fees to physicians, reducing disputes.

Denials of insurance claims remained a sore point for physicians, who called for insurers and employers to provide clarity about what is and is not covered. The percentage of claims denied — usually because of eligibility issues — ranged from 0.7 percent to 4.5 percent.

Other companies evaluated were Aetna Inc, Humana Inc, UnitedHealthGroup, and Health Care Service Corp. 

Ciccarelli Lawyers will aggressively fight for your rights against the big insurance companies. Contact us today to find out how.