Attorney Jerry I. Meyers

 Attorney Profile 
Born McKeesport, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1946; admitted to bar, 1975, Pennsylvania.

 Areas of Practice 
Medical Malpractice; Medical Products Law.

 Notable Cases 
Kevan Berkovitz, a minor, vs. United States, 486 U.S. 531, 108 S.Ct. 1954, conducted underlying litigation on this and numerous other polio vaccine cases. Landmark decision limiting discretionary function exception.

 Education 
University of Pittsburgh (B.A., 1971); University of Miami (J.D., cum laude, 1975). Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Delta Phi, former Navy Hospital Corpsman, Respiratory Therapist, 1967-1973.

 Awards and Honors 
Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, Martindale-Hubbell AV rated.

 Bar and Court Admissions 
U.S. Western District 1975, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania 1975.

 Publications 
Meyers, J.I. and Titelman, W.A.K., "The Semantics of Crisis," The Barrister, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Volume XV, Number 2, Summer, 1984

Meyers, J.I., “Evaluation of a Birth Injury Case, Part 1”, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association Newsletter, September 1999

Meyers, J.I., “Evaluation of a Birth Injury Case, Part II", Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association Newsletter, January 2000

Meyers, J.I., “Evaluating the Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Case”, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association Newsletter, February 2000

Meyers, J.I., "Evaluation of the Anesthesia Case – Failure to Maintain a Patent Airway", Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association Newsletter, August 2000

Meyers, J.I., “Evaluation of a Brain Injury Case (after birth)”, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association Newsletter, December 2000

Meyers, J.I., “Understanding the Tumor Doubling Defense”, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association Newsletter, April 2001

Meyers, J.I., “The perspective of a plaintiff's attorney in dissembling the art of medicine as it relates to the interpretation and management of cervical smears”, Amer J Clin Path, Pathology Patterns Reviews Vol. 116, No. 6 (Suppl 1), December 2001

 Professional Associations 
Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association (Member: Board of Governors, 1987-1991; Legislative Policy Committee, 1994- Charter Member, Medical Malpractice Section; Western Chapter President, 1990); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; ATLA Leadership Forum. American Society of Law and Medicine; Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County.

 Professional Activities 
Allegheny County Bar Association
Pennsylvania Bar Association , Medical Legal Committee and Health Care and Hospital Law Committee
Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Medical Legal Committee
Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Medical Malpractice Advisory Task Force
Western Chapter Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Executive Office and President (1988 to 1989)
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America
American Society of Law and Medicine
Who's Who in American Law
Life Member - National Registry of Who’s Who
Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County

 Speaking Engagements 
1979 Speaker - Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Convention, Hershey, PA

1980 - Faculty - Medical-Legal Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado sponsored by Pittsburgh Institute of Legal Medicine

1981 - Faculty - Medical-Legal Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado sponsored by Medical-Dental-Legal Group approved for continued medical education credit - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

1981 - Guest Lecturer - Teaching Rounds - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Neurology Service

1981 - Speaker - Conference "Current Topics in Respiratory Care" sponsored by Centralized Hospital Service, Greensburg, PA

1982 - Speaker - Continuing Education Program for nurse anesthetists "Medical-Legal Aspects of Nurse Anesthesia" sponsored by Centralized Hospital Service, Greensburg, PA

1983 - Faculty - Conference "Treatment Strategies, Advances in Radiotherapy, Techniques" sponsored by Continuing Education Services, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA

1985 - Guest Lecturer - Geisinger Medical Center - Medical Legal aspects of Radiation Therapy - What the Technologists Need to Know

1986 - Course Planner and Moderator - "Anatomy & Medicine for the Trial Lawyer" sponsored by the Western Chapter of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Pittsburgh, PA

1987 - Faculty - "Preparing and Proving the Medical Malpractice Case" sponsored by the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Trial Advocacy Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA

1987 - Faculty - "Continuing Legal Education Program Series - Screening of medical malpractice case" sponsored by the Western Chapter of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association (presented in Butler and Johnstown, PA)

1987 - Faculty - "Civil Litigation Update" sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Hershey, PA

1988 - Faculty -"Finding and Presenting Evidence in Personal Injury Cases" sponsored by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Philadelphia PA

1988 - Faculty - "Continuing Legal Education Program Series - Screening of medical malpractice case" sponsored by the Western Chapter of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association (presented in Greensburg, PA)

1988 - Course Planner and Moderator - "Anatomy & Medicine for the Trial Lawyer" sponsored, by the Western Chapter of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Pittsburgh, PA

1988 - Faculty - "The Litigator and The Personal Computer" sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

1989 - Faculty - "Pennsylvania Emergency Room Medical Malpractice" sponsored by the Professional Education Systems, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA

1990 - Faculty - "Continuing Legal Education Program Series - Screening of medical malpractice case" sponsored by the Western Chapter of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association (presented in Butler, PA)

1990 - Faculty - "Advanced Issues in Medical Malpractice -Vicarious & Hospital Liability Theories" sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

1991 - Faculty - "Family Law: Litigating to Win" The Expert and Equitable Distribution" sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Pittsburgh, PA and Harrisburg, PA

1992 - Faculty - "Preparing & Trying the Medical Malpractice Case" sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

1993 - Faculty - "Advanced Issues in Medical Malpractice" sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

1994 - Faculty - "Discovery: Unveiling the Mystery" sponsored by the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association

1995 - Faculty - Mercy Health System of Altoona

1996 - Faculty - "Preparing & Trying the Medical Malpractice Case" sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

1996 - Faculty - University of Pittsburgh, School of Law, Health Law Clinic.

1996 - Faculty - “HOUSE BILL 2210,” sponsored by the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Pittsburgh, PA

1996 - Lecturer – “Preparing and Trying a Medical Malpractice Case,” sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

1998 - Faculty – “Malpractice in the E.R. – Medicine, Law and Tactics,” sponsored by the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Pittsburgh, PA

2001 - Lecturer – “The Nuts and Bolts of Medical Malpractice Cases,” sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

2005 - Lecturer – “The Pap Smear Case – A Plaintiff’s Perspective,” sponsored by the Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology, San Antonio, Texas

 Charitable Involvement 
United Way of Allegheny County, Alex de Toucqueville Society and ten-year sponsorship of the Hartwood Show Jumping Festival for benefit of the Parental Stress Center; Race to Any Place, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (2005, 2006); major donor Neighborhood Legal Services – Equal Justice Under the Law Campaign and Attorneys Against Hunger Campaign.