Rachael Snyder Snyder von Rhine

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Shareholder

  Firm Name

  Marshall Dennehey
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Significant Representative Matters: Defense verdict in a lawsuit filed against a homeowner for significant property damage caused by a natural disaster. Rachael was able to successfully argue that the damage caused by the storm was not foreseeable.
  Favorable settlement in a complex products liability matter involving 12 separately filed actions, which bundled over 250 claims. The alleged damages totalled over $8.65m. Rachael was able to successfully prevent the actions from being classified as a Mass Tort
  was able to ultimately resolve the matter for pennies on the dollar.
  Defense verdict in a lawsuit filed by a homeowner for significant property damage to the plaintiff's condominium. Rachael was able to successfully argue that the property damage was not caused by common area plumbing, but by the negligence of the plaintiff's neighbor.
  Summary Judgment obtained in a wrongful death matter, involving an alleged drowning in a Whirlpool, filed against a health club. Rachael was able to successfully argue that the health club's lifeguards' actions exceeded industry st
  ards
  that the plaintiff did not in fact drown, but actually suffered a cardiac event that she could not have recovered from, regardless of where the cardiac event took place.