Peter Greiner is a Shareholder in Zarwin Baum’s Personal Injury Department and leads our Medical Malpractice litigation division. For over 25 years, Pete has been representing the interests of victims, and for over a decade Pete has dedicated his practice to representing the interests of those who have been victims of medical negligence all over Pennsylvania and New Jersey, obtaining millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements in the most difficult cases and in the toughest jurisdictions. Regardless of the subject matter, whether it be a personal injury or business matter, Pete is a trial lawyer who is at home in the courtroom. Pete began his career developing his craft as a litigator in the largest state prosecutor’s office in the country and has applied those skills to many areas of the law to protect the interests of his clients.
As a partner in Zarwin Baum’s personal injury practice and the Chair of our Medical Malpractice division, Pete Greiner focuses his practice on matters involving professional malpractice, catastrophic injury and wrongful death, as well as civil rights violations, dram shop, product liability, and other serious injury matters. Pete also represents clients in complex commercial litigation, including past matters involving healthcare fraud, shareholder disputes, as well as non-compete agreements and restrictive covenants.
Over the course of his career, Pete has obtained millions of dollars in jury verdicts and settlements on behalf of individuals who were injured. In recent years, Pete won a $4 million jury verdict in a medical malpractice case in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on behalf of the mother of a 1-month old child who died from whooping cough. That verdict is believed to be the largest medical malpractice death verdict in Lancaster County’s history.
Most recently, Pete obtained a Plaintiff’s verdict of over $800,000 in a medical malpractice case in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania for the family of a man who died after his physician failed to help his patient’s addiction to prescription pain medicine. That verdict is believed to be one of the only Plaintiff’s medical malpractice verdicts won in Montgomery County since the pandemic.
Pete also served as co-lead counsel for one of the main defendants in the Salvation Army Building Collapse case, which culminated in an historic, five-month long trial in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
Pete has also represented numerous individuals who were victims of shareholder oppression and other business disputes. Pete applies the same professionalism, detail, and zeal to his business clients as those that he represents who are seriously injured.
Additionally, Pete, who served as an Assistant District Attorney for the City of Philadelphia for five years, has used that experience to successfully defend numerous clients facing serious state and criminal charges. Pete also has fought for those that have been wrongfully arrested, bringing suit on their behalf and recovering verdicts and settlements for those innocent parties totaling over a million dollars.
Pete graduated from Colgate University with a B.A. in Political Science in 1995 and earned his law degree at the Villanova University School of Law in 1998.
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