Carmen P. Belefonte

Carmen P. Belefonte is a partner at The Law Firm of Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky PC and the managing attorney at the firm's office in Media, Pennsylvania. Focusing his practice on personal injury and wrongful death litigation, he assists plaintiffs throughout the state who have been harmed by the negligence of other parties. While his particular emphasis is on hospital negligence, delayed diagnoses and other forms of medical malpractice, Mr. Belefonte also handles cases involving premises liability, nonmedical professional liability and mass torts - opioid litigation .

In 1962, Mr. Belefonte received a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from the University of Notre Dame. He then pursued his legal studies at The Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law and obtained his Juris Doctor in 1995. While in law school, Mr. Belefonte was the editor of what was then called The Dickinson Law Review, and he was a member of the Woolsack Honor Society. After graduation, he joined the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Army, where he spent three years as a prosecutor, defense counsel and chief of military justice before entering private practice. He merged his Media-based practice with The Law Firm of Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky PC in 2006. Admitted to practice before all Pennsylvania state courts, Mr. Belefonte is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the Supreme Court of the United States.

The representative results that Mr. Belefonte has been able to obtain on behalf of his clients include a $12 million settlement for the life care of a 2-year-old boy who suffered brain damage due to an emergency room misdiagnosis. His fellow professionals have taken note of his successes and have awarded him an AV Preeminent* peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell and a "Superb" peer review rating through Avvo.

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