Top Rated Personal Injury Attorney in Weirton, WV

A partner at Frankovitch, Anetakis, Simon, Decapio & Pearl, LLP, Kevin M. Pearl focuses his practice largely on personal injury and wrongful death litigation. From the firm's principal office in Weirton, West Virginia, he provides dedicated and astute representation to residents of the surrounding area, including Wheeling, who have incurred economic and noneconomic losses due to the negligence or recklessness of other persons or entities.

The types of cases that Mr. Pearl has handled have arisen out of incidents involving medical malpractice such as doctor errors and hospital negligence, truck and other motor vehicle crashes, premises liability, defective products and construction site accidents. He has been able to obtain favorable results for his plaintiff clients both in jury trials and negotiations outside of the courtroom. Mr. Pearl also has experience in helping people obtain their rightful Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income benefits, and his background also includes employment law matters and general civil litigation.

As an undergraduate, Mr. Pearl attended Wheeling Jesuit University, where he majored in political and economic philosophy and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1998. Deciding to pursue a legal education, he then enrolled at the University of Dayton School of Law, and he was awarded his Juris Doctor in 2001. He was in private practice since then, and he has been a partner at Frankovitch, Anetakis, Simon, Decapio & Pearl, LLP, since January 2017.

For several years, Mr. Pearl served as an adjunct professor in business law at his undergraduate alma mater. Admitted to practice in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, he is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.