News & Investigations
Toxic Chemical Exposure After Train, Truck, and Warehouse Spills
A train derailment, tanker truck crash, or warehouse spill can release hazardous chemicals into the air or across a worksite within seconds. Workers, drivers, emergency responders, nearby residents, and others may be exposed by breathing in contaminated air, getting chemicals…
Surgical Stapler Failures: Internal Bleeding, Sepsis, and Wrongful Death
Patients can suffer life-threatening internal bleeding, leaks, infection, or sepsis when a surgical stapler fails to create a complete and secure staple line. These complications may require emergency surgery, prolonged hospitalization, or intensive care, and in the most serious cases…
Nursing Home Fall Injuries: Hip Fractures, Brain Bleeds, and Wrongful Death
For an elderly or medically fragile nursing home resident, a single fall can cause catastrophic, life-altering harm. A fractured hip may require surgery, permanently destroy the resident’s mobility and independence, and trigger complications such as blood clots, pneumonia, pressure injuries,…
Pacemaker and ICD Failures: When a Cardiac Device Fails
Patients who rely on a pacemaker or an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator are trusting that device to work. When a pacemaker fails to deliver needed electrical impulses or an ICD fails to detect a dangerous rhythm or deliver an effective shock, the…
Resource Guides
Brochure: Referral Partner Network
Partner with McEldrew Purtell for catastrophic injury and wrongful death referrals, co-counsel support, rapid response investigations, and trial-ready litigation resources.
Brochure: Community Legal Network
From medical malpractice and trucking crashes to nursing home neglect, gun violence, industrial disasters, and PCRA matters, we pursue accountability with urgency, compassion, and a trial-ready mindset.
Practice Area Overview: Transportation Accidents
This practice area overview explains the transportation accident cases we handle, trucking accidents, commercial vehicle collisions, rideshare crashes, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death, and lets you meet the team you’ll be working with, so you know who’s building your case…
Practice Area Overview: Maritime & Jones Act
This practice area overview explains the Maritime & Jones Act cases we handle and lets you meet the team you’ll be working with, so you know who’s building your case from day one.
Videos & Podcasts
Why Some Firms Choose Depth Over Volume
Dan Purtell joins Alex Woods on her show, Between the Lines, for a conversation about why McEldrew Purtell focuses on catastrophic plaintiff work.
The Deep Dive: Wrongful Convictions and Cheesesteaks
Dan Purtell joins In Depth With Deon Osborne alongside Antoinette Jones of the Julius Jones Institute for a conversation about wrongful convictions.
Court Radio with Dean Weitzman featuring Ian Norris
On this episode of Court Radio, Dean spoke with attorney Ian Norris of McEldrew Purtell about protecting vulnerable loved ones from nursing home neglect and funeral home negligence.
Investing in the Future with Dan Purtell
What happens when a trial lawyer decides to stop doing everything himself? In this episode, Dan Purtell reveals how letting go transformed his firm from five people to sixty—and why saying no to the wrong cases made room for the…
Client Stories
McEldrew Purtell Files PCRA Petition Seeking Release of Michael Gaynor in 1988 Marcus Yates Case
McEldrew Purtell has filed a petition under Pennsylvania’s Post-Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) seeking the release of Michael Gaynor, who has been incarcerated since his 1988 conviction in the tragic shooting death of 5-year-old Marcus Yates.
Family of Amanda Cahill Files Federal Lawsuit After Jail Overdose
McEldrew Purtell has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the family of Amanda Cahill, a 31-year-old mother who died in September 2024 of a suspected fentanyl overdose while incarcerated at the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center (PICC).