Steven Wigrizer

Steven G. Wigrizer is a partner at Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he chairs the firm’s Medical Malpractice Department. With more than 40 years in practice, he represents patients and families harmed by medical negligence, including failure-to-diagnose and birth injury cases, along with catastrophic injury and product liability claims.

Wigrizer joined the firm in January 2020. In 2017 he served as co-lead counsel with Robert Mongeluzzi in the Salvation Army Thrift Store collapse trial, which ran nearly six months and resolved for $227 million. His other results include a $45 million verdict in the so-called Tacony Dungeon case, a $10 million settlement for a patient with a kidney injury and a $7.6 million settlement over misdiagnosed bacterial meningitis. He also filed suit for the City of Coatesville in opioid litigation against drug manufacturers and distributors.

He is a past president and board member of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, a past chairman of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s fee disputes committee and a hearing examiner for the Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board. He hosts The Leading Question, a public-service legal television program, and sits on the board of PeaceDrums USA. He earned his law degree from Boston University School of Law in 1979 and graduated magna cum laude from Pennsylvania State University in 1976.