Leo A. Bohanski

Leo is a member of the Casualty Department defending clients in civil actions in Pennsylvania and New York. The scope of his practice involves the defense of claims for personal injury for motor vehicle accidents, uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage, bad faith, products liability and premises liability for small businesses, malls, home owners' associations and large corporations. He has significant experience handling complex economic damages cases involving the application of the various provisions of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law.

In 2000, he graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Politics with minors in Economics and French. He completed a legal internship for the Finance Department of the Office of the Corporation Counsel in Washington D.C. During his senior year, he studied abroad in France and received a Diploma of French Studies at the international school of Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg. All of his courses were taught solely in French that year.

In 2003, he received his juris doctor from the Villanova University School of Law and served a one-year term as a law clerk to the Honorable Peter J. O'Brien in the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County.

He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and has spent the majority of his life in United States, while maintaining close ties to family and friends in Brazil.

Honors & awards

BV Distinguished Rating by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell

Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Rising Star, 2017

Year joined

2004

Results

Defense Jury Verdict in Auto Liability Case.

Automobile Liability
August 24, 2018

Obtained a defense verdict in a jury trial in the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas. The case involved a rear-end motor vehicle accident in which the plaintiff claimed he sustained a serious injury. The plaintiff underwent several years of treatment with a physiatrist, pain management specialists, physical therapists and a chiropractor. The jury found that the plaintiff did not sustain a serious impairment of a body function and awarded only $5,000 for past and future medical expenses for the injuries conceded by the defense medical expert-a cervical and lumbar strain.

Thought Leadership

Marshall Dennehey Announces New Shareholders, Special Counsel

January 2, 2014
Marshall Dennehey announced today that 16 attorneys, nearly half of them women, were elected shareholders of the firm at the annual shareholders' meeting held December 9 in Philadelphia.

High Court Puts Brakes on Delay Damages for UM Claims

Scranton
Automobile Liability
June 18, 2013
The Legal Intelligencer, June 18, 2013

Insurer’s Delight: A Reduction In Delay Damages for UM Cases

Scranton
Automobile Liability
March 1, 2013
By Leo A. Bohanski, Esq.*Key Points: Defense Digest, Vol. 19, No. 1, March 2013

Classes/Seminars Taught

Boardable and Recoverable Economic Damages, Marshall Dennehey Client Seminars, April, 2018, March, 2018, February, 2017, January, 2017, December 2015, June 2015

Boardable and Recoverable Economic Damages, Marshall Dennehey CLE Seminar, April 2015

Pennsylvania UM/UIM Law: 2014 Updates, Safeco Insurance, December 2014

Find It Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web and Metadata Issues, National Business Institute CLE, April 17, 2013