Carter v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA)

OPINION BY

Judge SIMPSON.

Deutsch, Larrimore, Farnish & Anderson, L.L.P., Counsel for Angel Carter, administratrix of the estate of William Carter, Jr., appeals the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County that restructured Counsel’s proposed settlement distribution resulting from a survivor’s action for wrongful death. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

Angel Carter began this action against the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) and Ronald Koran, a trolley driver for SEPTA, after her father was struck and killed by a morning SEPTA trolley.…