Amalia V. Romanowicz is a Principal in the Firm's Professional Liability Defense and Medical Malpractice Litigation Practice Groups. She focuses her practice on the defense of healthcare providers, including physicians, nurses, hospitals, life care and assisted living facilities, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists at trials, mediations, and arbitrations involving cases with often catastrophic losses and significant injuries that present substantial exposure.
Ms. Romanowicz is an experienced trial lawyer who has litigated diverse cases in the medical negligence field in jury trials venued in Philadelphia and the surrounding counties. Her over two decades of trial, mediation and arbitration experience includes a diverse range of cases, including representation of doctors and nurses in cases involving claims of improper medical screening under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), alleged injuries/death resulting from errors and negligence during the surgical process, and alleged misdiagnosis/failure to diagnose. She has represented pharmacists in cases involving alleged mis-fills, failure-to-identify, and incorrect packaging that involve catastrophic loss and injury.
She represents clients in most major medical sub-specialties, including emergency room (ER), pathology, radiology, oncology, orthopedics, labor and delivery, wound care, and dermatology, among others.
Prior to her career as an attorney, Ms. Romanowicz was a practicing pharmacist for nearly a decade, working for a hospital, and a national retail pharmacy chain. She also managed a major retail pharmacy location with oversight of pharmacy and retail operations.
Since 2011, Ms. Romanowicz has been recognized as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer (top 5%) by her peers as published by American Lawyer Media and Philadelphia Magazine. In 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, she was also listed in Super Lawyers Business Edition. For information about these selections and an overview of common third-party publications, rankings, and lists methodologies, click here.
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