Josh is a civil litigator, concentrating his practice in Special Investigation Unit (SIU) defense litigation, where individuals and medical providers are suspected of insurance fraud. Josh also concentrates his practice in the defense of automobile, premises, and products liability litigation.
Josh has experience successfully handling all aspects of litigation throughout Philadelphia and its surrounding counties. His experience includes pretrial pleadings, investigation, depositions, analysis of medical damages, and expert discovery. Josh has conducted numerous detailed Examinations Under Oath on behalf of insurance carries on various SIU related issues in Pennsylvania. He has also successfully defended numerous personal injury suits at arbitration and trial.
Josh's practice in the areas of insurance fraud/SIU is bolstered by his previous experience in law enforcement. Prior to joining Marshall Dennehey, he worked at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., the District Attorney's Office of Chester County, Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Law Department's General Litigation Unit. In the District Attorney's Office, Josh gained valuable and practical experience in law enforcement, where he assisted in criminal investigations, litigated preliminary hearings, suppression motions, and summary trials on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Upon graduation from law school, Josh served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jan R. Jurden in the Delaware Superior Court.
Prior to law school, Josh worked on Capitol Hill as a legislative aide to then-Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on matters concerning national security, education, environmental affairs, veterans affairs, and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
Josh is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Josh also serves as an arbitrator in the Compulsory Arbitration Program of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
Significant Representative Matters:
- Obtained numerous defense verdicts while defending commercial and residential property owners in matters where plaintiffs were claiming personal injuries allegedly caused by conditions on or adjacent to the premises. Many of these instances involved suspicions of fraud and involved intensive investigation and discovery in order to effectively defend the claims;
- Obtained numerous defense verdicts while representing insured drivers involved in motor vehicle accidents with limited-tort plaintiffs. Josh has successfully persuaded Arbitration Panels on multiple occasions that the plaintiffs' alleged injuries did not rise to the level of "serious bodily injuries" as defined by Pennsylvania Statute and case law, therefore prohibiting plaintiffs from recovering non-economic damages i.e. pain and suffering;
- Josh was recently successful in defending a property owner that had been sued by a plaintiff represented by one of the most prominent plaintiff's firms in Pennsylvania. Plaintiff made a $7.75 Million claim for personal injuries sounding in premises liability, which included a closed-head trauma and claims of extensive neurological and neuropsychological damages. Plaintiff was a 38-year-old tenant on defendant's residential property in Pennsylvania when he allegedly tripped and fell down a concrete flight of stairs. Plaintiff was air-lifted to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment and claimed that, as a result of the fall he suffered from a seizure disorders and a complete loss-of-earnings capacity. Josh had secured extensive investigative findings that contradicted plaintiff's claims as well as obtained numerous victories in discovery court compelling extensive discovery of plaintiff's financial, PennDOT, and employment records. As a result, Josh successfully persuaded plaintiff to voluntarily drop his claims.
- Successfully dismissed our client from suit following Preliminary Objections which were sustained in a major jury case involving the representation of one of the largest elevator manufacturers in the world. Plaintiff was allegedly injured while making a "sales call" in a hospital. Plaintiff claimed that the elevators were not functioning and was forced to use the stairwell, where she allegedly slipped and fell. Josh successfully argued that not one jurisdiction across the country has recognized a party's right to recover from the elevator maintenance company in analogous scenarios on the issue of proximate causation. The presiding Judge was persuaded by Josh's argument and dismissed the elevator company from the suit.
