Carin A. O’Donnell is a Shareholder and Co-Chair of Stark & Stark’s Accident & Personal Injury group. She is also a member of the firm’s Construction Injury group, where she concentrates her practice on wrongful death and catastrophic injury litigation, specifically construction accidents and institutional sexual assault matters. Ms. O’Donnell is a trial attorney who has successfully litigated personal injury matters resulting in multiple verdicts and settlements exceeding millions of dollars (results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances). Her extensive trial experience has helped her win cases for plaintiffs in counties that typically favor defense verdicts. As a result, her cases have been featured in local papers, radio shows, and legal publications.
Ms. O’Donnell lectures nationally to colleagues on topics regarding trial techniques, personal injury law, and litigation in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Pennsylvania Association of Justice, and the New Jersey Association for Justice.
Ms. O’Donnell has been elected to the Board of Directors for the Pennsylvania Association of Justice. Additionally, Ms. O’Donnell is a member of the International Society of Barristers and serves as a board member for the International Society of Barristers Foundation. She has been appointed to the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to serve as a Hearing Committee Member in the District II Disciplinary District. She was selected to the Emerge Pennsylvania Cohort, a professional development program for emerging women leaders. She was also a member of Stark & Stark’s and Pennsylvania Association of Justices’ Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. And, she was past co-chair of the Pennsylvania Association of Justices’ Women Leaders Section.
Ms. O’Donnell also volunteers her time to assist people in the community. Currently she is a board member of NOVA, the Network of Victims’ Assistance which provides services to victims of crimes including sexual abuse, trafficking and assaults.
Representative Experience
*Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances*
- $8,000,000 – Settlement for a construction worker who fell from a building.
- $2,700,000- Verdict for construction worker ran over by asphalt roller
- $2,025,000 – Settlement for a construction worker injured at a Philadelphia construction site (more details).
- $2,000,000 – Confidential settlement for civil assault.
- $1,500,000 – Verdict for a construction worker that fell while using scaffolding.
- $1,400,000 – Settlement for construction worker injured in accident involving a ladder.
- $1,400,000 – Settlement for person injured after falling off construction equipment.
- $1,400,000 – Verdict for driver injured after being over-served alcohol.
- $1,425,000 – Settlement for a construction worker injured at a Philadelphia construction site (more details).
- $1,000,000 – Settlement for a pedestrian struck by a car while crossing the street.
- $1,000,000 – Settlement for a pedestrian struck by a car while walking on the sidewalk.
- $1,000,000 – Verdict for a construction worker that fell through a skylight.
- $850,000 – Verdict for slip and fall incident.
*Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances*
