Mariel C. Marsh is a Principal in the Firm's Professional Liability and Casualty Litigation Departments. She represents clients in complex litigation including claims involving medical malpractice, professional liability, products liability, and premises liability, among others.
Ms. Marsh has extensive experience in all phases of litigation and has presented arguments on motions, at court conferences, arbitration hearings, and trial. She regularly advises clients and carriers regarding assessments of liability and damages, settlement, and verdict potential, as well as recommendations for future case handling. Ms. Marsh meets with clients to prepare them to testify at depositions, arbitrations, and trial. She has conducted and defended depositions, prepared responses to written discovery, and drafted a full-range of pleadings and motions, including a number of successful motions securing dismissal of her clients.
Active in her community, Ms. Marsh is a volunteer attorney for the Support Center for Child Advocates, an organization that provides legal assistance and social service advocacy to children who are victims of abuse and neglect.
In 2013 through 2020, Ms. Marsh was selected by her peers for Pennsylvania Super Lawyers - Rising Stars, a listing of the top 2.5 percent of attorneys in the Commonwealth who are 40 or younger or have been practicing for less than 10 years. For information about this selection and an overview of common third-party publications, rankings, and lists methodologies, click here.
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- Obtained summary judgment in the Court of Common Pleas, Washington County, PA on behalf of a comprehensive health and human service provider and its affiliate corporation in a case where the decedent’s estate alleged that the negligence of defendants and the defendants’ failure to supervise the decedent while she was residing in a community residential rehabilitation services facility caused the decedent’s death.
- Obtained summary judgment in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Camden County on behalf of an emergency medicine provider in a case where the plaintiff alleged that the defendant medical providers and hospitals’ failure to timely treat and diagnose a post-partum infection caused severe injuries.
- Following a 2 ½ week jury trial in Philadelphia County, obtained defense verdict on behalf of a physician assistant in a case where the decedent’s estate alleged that the defendants failed to diagnose the decedent with deep vein thrombosis/pulmonary embolism, leading to the decedent’s death.