Charles Kannebecker, abogado.

Charles Kannebecker, Esq. is a Personal Injury & Class Action Attorney at The Law Offices of Sobo & Sobo.

Charles has over 31 years of experience handling a variety of personal injury and class action cases including, but not limited to: motor vehicle accidents, slip and falls, trip and falls, and construction accidents.

“I developed the personal injury practice at the law firm I previously worked for from the ground up. This practice ultimately became the largest and most successful law firm within the adjacent 20 counties. Multiple cases I have handled have resulted in precedent-setting changes in the law that expanded the scope of protection for individuals. These include:

• Pennsylvania Supreme Court landmark case of Sayles v Allstate establishing that a PIP insurer’s policy-based demand for PIP DMEs is unlawful and that PIP insurers can compel exams only if they can convince a court to so Order and then the Court, not the insurer, selects the medical examiner and sets the terms of the exam;
• Legal bases to recover against Commonwealth and political subdivisions beyond the statutory cap;
• Establishing that Heart & Lung Benefits are not subject to subrogation;
• Establishing Workers’ Compensation insurer liability for bad faith and punitive damages;
• Establishing that New Jersey anti-subrogation law is saved from ERISA preemption under ERISA’s savings clause;
• Establishing “Koken” joinder that permitted combining UIM and tortfeasor claims in the same suit;
• Establishing disability insurer’s claim for subrogation of disability benefits is unlawful;
• Establishing joint and several liability of a UIM insurer with a tortfeasor for an insured’s injury damages;
• Establishing liability for punitive damages for cellphone use while driving; and

In the Class Action context, I have successfully developed the new legal theories involving:

• Establishing Unlawful insurer subrogation in PA, NJ, and NY;
• Establishing Improper interstate medical payments;
• Establishing Unlawful insurer underpayment of medical billing;
• Establishing Unlawful insurer PIP medical exam misconduct.
• Establishing School District subrogation by self-funded school health plans is unlawful.

These cases have resulted in returning large amounts of funds to class members who had been wronged by misconduct.”