Barczak, Ronald J.

A recently elected 2007 and 2008 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Rising Star, Jason Banonis has spent much of his career handling premises liability, products liability, professional liability, commercial motor vehicle, and general liability matters for national and local clients. He continues to devote much of his practice in those same areas since joining Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin in 2002.

During his career, Jason has handled hundreds of premises, retail, and motor vehicle matters, trying several cases to verdict. He has represented a considerable number of service providers to sports and entertainment, retail, corrections, healthcare, facilities, restaurant and bar industries.  In one of many noteworthy cases, Jason was able to reduce a settlement demand from $2 million to $25,000 with the assistance of medical, vocational, and liability experts. As a knowledgeable litigator, Jason was also involved in the MDL litigation for the distributor of a latex products.  He also regularly serves as court-appointed arbitrator in the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County and Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County, and United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Jason gives back to his community, spending time as Chairman of the Lower Saucon Township Zoning Hearing Board. The five member board meets monthly to hear and decide substantive and procedural challenges to the validity of land use ordinances.

Before becoming an attorney, and while attending law school, he was a casualty claims representative with Crawford & Company where he managed premises liability and products liability matters. He also worked for the PMA Group as a client account representative, handling general negligence and professional liability cases for several government entities. He also served a judicial externship with Judge Richard Gebelein of the Superior Court of Delaware.

Significant Representative Matters:

• Obtained summary judgment for a correctional services food services provider for toxic tort claims of correctional officers alleging exposure to mold in the prison where demand was in excess of $1 million.
  

• Successfully and economically resolved a complex premises liability case at an air cargo distribution hub through creative use of meteorology experts and discovery.
  

• Successfully and economically resolved a complex industrial shelving unit collapse case resulting in catastrophic head injury through creative use of biomechanical and engineering experts.
  

• Successfully and economically resolved a medical product liability case involving a catheter sheath through effective use of engineering and design experts.
  

• Successfully and economically resolved a products liability case involving a motorized yard truck through effective use of engineering and human factors experts.
  

• Obtained summary judgment for a tree removal service based on plainitff's failure to file action within statute of limitations.
  

• Obtained defense verdict at trial in a low speed motor vehicle accident through effective use of photographs, damages estimates and medical experts.
  

• Successfully obtained dismissal of the distributor of an allegedly defective log splitter.
  

• Successfully defended construction liability case where the demand was $10 million by showing that the action of my client was not the proximate cause of plaintiff's injuries.