Foerstner and Lauricella win $3 million med mal case
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Jim Foerstner wins $1.45 million on behalf of family of wife and mother
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James E. Foerstner was just out of law school in 1989 when he began his career as a 31-year-old assistant prosecuting attorney for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. His first case involved a man who had raped and sodomized three of his own children in a basement lair decorated with pentagrams and other symbols of satanic worship. Jim sent the man to jail to serve ten consecutive life sentences. During his five-year tenure as a prosecutor, Jim convicted hundreds of other criminals in major felony cases involving homicides, rapes, robberies, fraud, and drug dealing.
After he left the prosecutor’s office, Jim joined a major defense firm in Philadelphia, where the bulk of his work involved representing defendant doctors and hospitals in medical malpractice actions. He also represented small businesses and major corporations in a variety of civil matters.
Jim was handling a medical malpractice case against Slade H. McLaughlin of The Beasley Firm in 1998 when he came to the attention of McLaughlin’s boss, James E. Beasley, who immediately offered Foerstner a job.
In the last ten years as a member of The Beasley Firm, Jim has vigorously represented the rights of the injured, winning significant verdicts in multiple jurisdictions. Those verdicts include $3.5 million for the death of an infant, $3.25 million for impaired sight in one eye, and $1.45 million for a death from a pulmonary embolism.
Jim has also been responsible for multiple six and seven figure settlements for injuries related to medical malpractice, product liability and premise liability. He represented ten of the 40 persons injured in the infamous Pier 34 collapse into the Delaware River. Jim’s work was instrumental in attaining a significant portion of the total $29.6 million settlement that went to his clients. He also has obtained other settlements for damages as a result of spinal cord injury, partial blindness, loss of organs, misdiagnosis of cancer, and death.
His most courtroom victory was a $3 million wrongful death case in April 2008 involving a 57-year-old disabled carpenter who had died of undiagnosed lung cancer. Jim’s philosophy is simple; you have to outwork your opponents. “The best lawyer in the courtroom is not the smartest guy, but the best-prepared lawyer,” he said.
In his spare time, Jim designs and builds high-quality reproduction 18th century furniture. He also is involved in competitive shooting sports, and is an avid scuba diver and fly fisherman. He and his wife Georgia live in Glen Mills, Pa.
