Client Reviews & Testimonials

Attorney Scott Cooper assured me everything would be ok. His office has gone above and beyond to help me through this nightmare – always a phone call away to answer my questions, no matter what. And to my surprise, they sent me a birthday card. They’re not your average lawyers; they treat you like family, not clients. The only stupid action you could make is not having them in your corner.

Stailey - client of Scott Cooper

Dear Scott,Thanks you so much for your legal guidance concerning my auto accident. Your insights were very valuable to us and I really appreciate the time you took out of your busy schedule to help us during a stressful time.Thank You!

S.Z. - Central Pennsylvania

Everything was great. The staff was very courteous, friendly, helpful and exceptionally nice. Thank you.

Client

Gerry Kramer did a great job.

Marlin W.

Gerry always kept us advised. It's always a pleasure to do business with your firm.

Client of Gerry Kramer

Great atmosphere. Explained entire process clearly. Very personable. Thank you for helping me take care of my medical bills and process this entire case.

Client of Daryl Christopher

Hi Guys, Thanks again for all of your assistance with this. It was a pleasant outcome to a frustrating experience. I really appreciate all you were able to do. Enjoy the rest of your summer and I hope we never have to speak again, haha. Have a good one.

Lana R. - Pittsburgh PA.

Hi Maureen, Thanks for ALL you guys did. Fantastic!

Father of Client

Hi Mr. Cooper,Thank you for the DVD. I received it today, and just finished watching it. It has opened my eyes to issues that I never really understood.I am embarrassed to say that I was one of those that thought frivolous lawsuits were such a big problem in our society, and I would often reference the McDonald's case.Now I know better. I will share the video with as many people as I can.Happy Holidays, and thanks for spreading the word about this threat to our civil rights.

Client

I am very, very pleased and happy with your firm. Scott Cooper and Jade did an excellent job of communicating with me and my daughters. I am very pleased with the settlement I received. Scott made everything so easy and painless for me! I would highly recommend! Thank you very much!

Client of Scott B. Cooper

I appreciate all of your assistance. Thank you for everything.

Amy B. - Mount Joy, Pa.

I called by phone and they responded immediately and came to my home. Was very polite. Mr. Scott Cooper did an excellent job for me.

Jerry B. - Kreamer, PA.

I cannot thank you enough for all the work you've done on our case. Thanks for sticking with us throughout what has become a long process. In the end, we feel very satisfied and grateful that you were able to see that the injuries were acknowledged and compensated for. What a nice early Christmas gift! We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a blessing in the New Year, again THANK YOU for everything.

Phil and Simon - Pennsylvania Client

I feel that God gave you the know how to help people, and this has helped me as well, as not to give up. Do not change anything. If anything God will do the changing, if any needed. Nothing needs changing. Thank you and God bless you and yours. P.S. - Good Coffee

Kelly L. - York, Pa.

I have no suggestions! Your firm did an excellent job with my case! Thanks again for everything.

Amanda B. - Somerset, PA

I have nothing but high praise for everyone I interacted with over on State Street. I was made to feel welcome and part of a family that was looking out for my needs when no one else would.The folks at Coopertown are utmost professionals and I was totally satisfied with how my case progressed and was resolved.When I was" hangin with Mr Cooper" i could ask anything and would get a to the point response. Maureen and everyone else was wonderful and kept my interests at the forefront of the matter.I cannot stress how important it was to me to have people that actually care about their clients. I would use Schmidt Kramer again but I hope I never have to. A+++ They rock.

Scott Y. - Harrisburg, PA.

I have worked with many attorneys over the years for real estate, estate, and other matters. By far, Gerry Kramer has been the most responsive providing excellent service... and this was a relatively small matter for the firm, but an important matter for me personally.Also, Gerry took the case upfront knowing that I was not after a monetary settlement. I will recommend Gerry to anyone needing a good personal injury attorney.

Client of Gerry Kramer

I must say that you have exceptional staff, everyone is wonderful! Scott Cooper is the best attorney, he explained things so I understood and was just a pleasure. Thank you so much to everyone involved in my case.

Satisfied Client

I recommend Scott Cooper.Mr. Cooper was very informative and knowledgeable regarding my case. He thoroughly explained the process and answered all my questions in a prompt manner.He and his staff were very helpful and caring which was very comforting as this was not a process I was familiar with nor an event that was easy to talk about.Mr. Cooper's calm and patient demeanor made it much easier for me to provide the details of what happened on the day of the accident.I would strongly recommend Mr. Cooper as he is an exceptional lawyer.

Michelle S. - Mechanicsburg, PA

Your firm eased the burden of maybe waiting up to three years for a ruling on this issue. You were very helpful and speedy with Deanna's case. Thank you.

Social Security client of Jessica L. Mitchell from Mount Pleasant Mills, PA

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$10,043,952.13 Personal Injury
Schmidt Kramer, P.C.partner Gerard C. Kramer won a personal injury action for $10,043,952.13 in Northumberland County on behalf of a volunteer firefighter who was the victim of Intentional Tort. The 50-year-old volunteer firefighter was seriously injured when a barn collapsed, causing a spinal injury which left him a paraplegic. The claim was brought against the arsonist who intentionally started the fire. It is believed that the verdict is the highest ever in Northumberland County.
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$4,034,000.00 Personal Injury
Yesterday a Judge in Union County (Lewisburg, PA) awarded a couple from New Berlin, Pennsylvania, over $4,000,000 because the husband was shot while turkey hunting.You might ask yourself, how does a turkey hunting accident end up with that type of verdict? In order to understand the verdict you would have to know our clients. They are good people who had their life wrecked. Plus, you would have to know the defendant, who should not have been hunting with a gun because he was prohibited after a previous criminal conviction.It is a good verdict, because the Judge was able to do two things with his decision. First, he communicated to two very good people that their losses were something that those of us on the outside could appreciate and value. Mike Hobbins (our client) is a 51 year old guy who lost his sight because a convicted felon --who should not have even possessed a gun-- went hunting illegally, and broke with impunity the most fundamental rule in hunting: identify your target before you pull the trigger. The Judge accepted the financial loss Mr. Hobbins' suffered, but listened closely to the evidence of less tangible losses. When Mike broke down on the stand, because his daughter would end up walking him down the aisle at her wedding, as opposed to how it was supposed to go, the Judge was listening. When Mike could not keep it together, because of how emasculating it was for him not to be able to provide financially for his family, the Judge was listening. It was facts like these that the Judge cited to support the $2,000,000 award for non-economic damages. Second, the Judge wanted to send a message. Union County is a hunting county. Many of the residents hunt there, and people from outside the area come to Union County to hunt. It was my impression, from the Judge's statements as he rendered his decision, that he wanted to send a message to the people in Union County to protect them in their sport. The rules in place to restrict people convicted of crimes not to have a gun are not to be broken. Hunting is serious and you have to identify your target before you shoot. When you turn your back on the rules that are set to provide safety in a sport, you risk being an example. Here, the $1,000,000 punitive damage award sends that message loud and clear.When it really comes down to brass tacks, the right action was taken against a Defendant who may never truly appreciate what kind of impact his reckless choices caused.At Schmidt Kramer, we are injury lawyers. That means we work with people who were hurt in car accidents, who were hurt by the neglect of nursing homes, or those that were seriously injured because of the reckless, thoughtless acts of others. If you or a loved one have been injured in Pennsylvania, we may be able to help. While the verdict yesterday is not one that is representative of every case we do, it does show that serious and dedicated representation can bring good results.Joe ChapmanJanuary 18, 2013
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$2,200,000.00 Auto Accidents
On Monday, January 6, 2014, Schmidt Kramer accident lawyer Scott Cooper obtained a verdict on behalf of his client who is the widow of a man who died in a fiery crash on Interstate 78 in Lebanon County. The awarded verdict of $2.2 million was in a nonjury proceeding before a federal judge in the Middle District of Pennsylvania. That verdict includes $100,000 in punitive damages assessed against the owner of the trucking company.Kamilah Claxton won summary judgment in November after the defendants, Sukhwinder Singh and the trucking company for which he worked, failed to file a brief in opposition to Claxton's motion, which was made in September. The verdict in Claxton v. Singh was issued after the court held a non-jury assessment of damages earlier this month."Mr. Sukhchan Singh, the employer, is liable on the basis of respondent superior, but was also grossly negligent in failing to maintain his vehicle in compliance with state and federal law, particularly with regard to having required safety inspections and correcting defects in its braking equipment," said U.S. District Judge William W. Caldwell of the Middle District of Pennsylvania in his opinion accompanying the verdict."He was also grossly negligent in entrusting his vehicle to Sukhwinder Singh, an inexperienced truck driver who had failed the written test and driving test multiple times before finally earning his commercial driving license," Caldwell said.
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$1,200,000.00 Personal Injury
A Dauphin County jury has awarded a $1.2 million verdict to the parents of a 5-year-old who had an anoxic brain injury and stopped breathing after he had a tonsillectomy.2012-06-26 10:00:00 AMDate of Verdict: June 19. 2012Court and Case No.: C.P. Dauphin County No. 2009-CV-14003-MMJudge: Scott EvansType of Action: Medical malpracticeInjuries: Anoxic brain injuryPlaintiffs Counsel: Terry S. Hyman, Schmidt Kramer, HarrisburgPlaintiffs Experts: Dr. Anna H. Messner, liability; Lucille Packer, Pediatric Otolaryngology, Palo Alto, Calif.; Terry P. Leslie, vocations and earning capacity, Lancaster; Dr. Hilary B. Berlin, pediatric psychiatry, Great Neck, N.Y.Defense Counsel: Andrew H. Foulkrod, Darlene K. King, Foulkrod Ellis, Camp Hill, PADefense Experts: James C. Reilly, Pediatric Otolaryngology, Wilmington, DEComment: A Dauphin County jury has awarded a $1.2 million verdict to the parents of a 5-year-old who had an anoxic brain injury and stopped breathing after he had a tonsillectomy.The entire verdict came against Dr. Andrew M. Shapiro, the doctor who plaintiffs Reginald Graham and Tykeisha Metz alleged chose to have the boy monitored at a pediatric ward. The plaintiffs argued Shapiro failed to tell nurses caring for the baby about, and how to care for, the boy's enhanced risk for respiratory failure.The jury came back on June 19 and awarded Reginald Graham and Tykeisha Mets $500,000 in non-economic damages and $686,170 in loss of future earning capacity, according to the plaintiffs counsel.According to the statement, the baby's mother brought him to Shapiro because she was "'afraid that he might stop breathing during his sleep,'" the plaintiffs' pretrial statement said. Shapiro performed a sleep study and observed the baby's Apnea Hypopnea Index to be 43 — four times higher than what's considered severe. A tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy were performed.According to the plaintiffs, the baby's sleep study results put him at an increased risk for post-operative respiratory complications. Despite this, they argued in the statement, Shapiro ordered the pediatric nurses at the Harrisburg Hospital general pediatric ward to observe the boy as they would any other patients — about once every four hours.The pretrial statement said that one in four children who have an AHI in the 40s and oxygen desaturation below 80 have some type of respiratory problem. The younger the child, the greater the risk of a respiratory problem, the statement said.According to the statement, Shapiro took off the child's pulse oximeter, the finger-mounted device used to measure blood oxygen, and ordered a heart and respiratory rate monitor. The child was 11 months old at the time.The plaintiffs pled that the baby was last seen at 4 a.m. There was no record of his oxygen saturation for the next hour and 45 minutes. He stopped breathing a 6:40 a.m., and his brain was without oxygen long enough to cause demonstrable injury on an MRI."Immediately prior to his surgery, [the child] was a normal child, who could say mama, eat finger foods, and was just on the verge of walking," the statement said. "After his code, [he] was like a newborn. He could not lift his head or sit up. He could not talk. He could not move."In his pretrial statement, Shapiro argued that he recognized the child's pre-operative sleep study showed he was driven to breath by decreased blood oxygen saturation, which he said was typical in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.He argued the American Academy of Otolaryngology dictates that admission to the intensive care unit is not the standard of care. In the statement, he said nurses did not observe signs of respiratory distress. No alarms sounded until the child arrested, the statement said.He said the baby likely arrested as a result of hypoglycemia and/or an acute aspiration, which he argued would not have been identified by blood oxygen saturation.— Ben Present, of the Law Weekly
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$1,024,040.80 Auto Accidents
Scott Cooper settled a wrongful death case on behalf of the widow of a police office who was killed in a car accident in the line of duty for $1,024,040.80. The claim against the other driver was amicably resolved before suit was filed for the entire available policy limits for the other driver. The case took place in Adams County, PA.
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I can not say enough good things about Schmidt Kramer legal services and in particular Jessica Mitchell!

She took care of all my concerns and questions, never failed to answer an email, and kept us in the loop on all things concerning my SSDI case! Nothing but kudos for this legal practice!

Use them and you can not go wrong!

Jake Zimmers

I contacted Dennis Kergick shortly after my accident because I had questions about workmans compensation…

Dennis took the time to answer my questions, he followed up with me frequently, and he was professional the whole way through.

I feel he did everything in his power to get the most out my settlement. I highly recommend him to anyone.

Dawn-Michelle Lewis

Had an auto accident in March 2017 & broke my hand. Scott Cooper took on my case. He was very personable & answered any and all questions I had.

He was experienced and knowledgeable. He got the case settled within 10 months! I definitely recommend this firm to anyone who suffered an injury due to an auto accident!

Ariel Smith

Dennis kept me informed every step of the way. Answered all my questions that I had. He also worked in a timely manner to get my case done.

I would recommend him to anyone. Thank you so much for going above and beyond for me Dennis!!!!

Alicia Johnson

I hired Mr Kergick to represent Me in my Workmans comp claim. He did an awesome job.

He kept informed on everything an made sure I understood how the process worked.

I’m very grateful for what he did for me and would highly recommend him.

Bonnie Welsh

My brother Tom who is severely mentally challenged was run over by 2 cars back in December 2015. Thankfully he survived and after 7 weeks in the hospital he walked out of Hershey Med Center fully recovered…

Scott Cooper was our lead attorney on the case and did a fantastic job communicating at every turn of our case and resolved it with insurance companies in a better than expected time frame.

We would 100% recommend Scott and his team to anyone in need of counsel. Having never had this experience before they were very professional and courteous at Schmidt Kramer from start to finish.

Bob Berkley

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