Lane R. Jubb Jr.

The Kimble Judgment Preserved on Appeal

Sharon Kimble traveled to Laser Spine Institute in Wayne, Pennsylvania, for outpatient back surgery on January 29, 2014. The center discharged her to a nearby hotel two hours after surgery while she remained under the combined effect of several central-nervous-system depressants. She stopped breathing later that day, and the coroner attributed her death to the medications’ synergistic effect. Lane R. Jubb Jr. represented her husband and estate with lawyers from The Beasley Firm.

The operation began at 7:20 that morning and ended at 8:40. The center discharged Kimble at 10:40. The medical record required the jury to evaluate the combined effect of Dilaudid, Flexeril, OxyContin, and Donnatal; at 4:49 that afternoon, her husband called the front desk because she had stopped breathing.

A Chester County jury found the surgical center and anesthesiologist negligent, assigned sixty-five percent of the responsibility to the center and thirty-five percent to the physician, and awarded $10 million for wrongful death plus delay damages.

The Pennsylvania Superior Court sitting en banc preserved the judgment and held that the surgical center remained responsible for the full surviving award under vicarious-liability principles.

Five Days after Gallbladder Surgery

Janette Lambert underwent gallbladder surgery at Hahnemann University Hospital on July 22, 2014. Her sickle-cell disease made dehydration, infection, inadequate oxygenation, and uncontrolled pain especially dangerous. She was discharged while still in severe pain, returned two days later with a bile leak, and died after further complications.

Lambert’s daughter testified that her mother remained in severe pain after surgery and was discharged before anyone resolved its cause.

The family’s case addressed the response to the bile leak and the absence of a hematology consultation across the surgeons, residents, nurses, and hospital departments involved in her care.

On July 26, Lambert stopped breathing. Clinicians resuscitated her and transferred her to intensive care. She died the next day. The family’s medical theory joined the bile leak, peritonitis, sickle-cell crisis, pain management, and missed opportunities to recognize a worsening condition.

Jubb served as lead trial counsel at age twenty-nine. After a five-day trial, the Philadelphia jury assigned ninety percent of the liability to the hospital and ten percent to the surgeon. It awarded $4.6 million for wrongful death and $400,000 under the Survival Act.

The jury evaluated five days of care rather than one procedure in isolation: an operation, discharge, return with a bile leak, respiratory arrest, and death. The verdict assigned responsibility for decisions made across that sequence.

The Title IX Trial and Resolution

Dr. John Abraham, an orthopedic oncologist affiliated with the Rothman Institute and Thomas Jefferson University, challenged the university’s handling of competing reports arising from a 2018 event. His Title IX claim asked whether Jefferson investigated one report while disregarding his because he was male and whether that response harmed his professional relationships.

Jubb and the trial team developed the federal case through emails, letters, meeting records, witness testimony, and the sequence of university communications.

The evidence showed who received each report, what decision each official made, how Abraham was asked to participate, and how the process affected his career.

In December 2023, a federal jury found for Abraham on Title IX sex discrimination and state-law tortious interference and returned $11 million in compensatory damages and $4 million in punitive damages. Jubb directed significant portions of the damages presentation. The litigation concluded through a confidential settlement in May 2024.

The trial team kept the federal and state theories precise while making one evidentiary record serve both. Jubb identified which communications established notice, which decisions showed differential treatment, and which testimony supported causation and damages.

The Word “Re-creation”

The Meyerses’ restoration work repaired fragile paper, replaced missing material, matched color, and returned damaged books to a condition in which collectors could handle and display them. Certified Guaranty Company graded comics and sealed them in holders that communicated condition to buyers, sellers, and auction houses.

Matthew and Emily Meyers restored collectible comic books through Investment Grade Books. They alleged that representatives of Certified Guaranty Company and others described their work as fake or “re-created” and circulated those statements in the collector market, harming their restoration business.

A major auction house declined to handle books associated with the Meyerses, a customer demanded the return of a large payment, and the couple alleged that they sold inventory below value and largely stopped restoration work as the statements circulated.

In 2019, the Pennsylvania Superior Court restored the defamation and false-light claims, holding that a jury could treat the challenged statements as defamatory and that evidence showed publication to third parties. After a five-day trial in July 2024, the jury awarded the Meyerses $5 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.

The jury deliberated for roughly fifty minutes.

The trial judge later denied requests to enter judgment for the defendants, order another trial, or reduce the award, and the defendants later discontinued their appeal. The Meyerses returned to restoration work on projects including the approximately two-hundred-book True North Collection.

Thirty Seconds on the Radar

Gardella was conducting a flight review for James Duncan, an official with the National Transportation Safety Board, in a Beechcraft Bonanza. A Piper aircraft flown by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector was operating nearby while receiving air-traffic-control services and practicing instrument approaches.

On Memorial Day 2012, flight instructor Paul Gardella and National Transportation Safety Board official James Duncan were killed when their Beechcraft Bonanza collided with a Piper aircraft over Virginia. Radar data placed the aircraft within approximately five hundred feet, and a conflict alert persisted for more than thirty seconds before an effective traffic warning reached the pilots.

Jubb and Jim Beasley Jr. brought the Gardella family’s claim against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The court found no evidence that Gardella had acted negligently and assigned responsibility to the government for the air-traffic-control failure.

The judgment totaled approximately $5.4 million. As a licensed pilot, Jubb worked through the radar plots, controller communications, cockpit sight lines, closure rates, federal procedures, and warning timeline at trial.

The judgment accounted for lost income and household services, Gardella’s widow’s sorrow and solace, and the losses sustained by his children. Jubb’s aviation experience helped the court evaluate what each aircraft was doing, what the controller could see, and how many seconds remained once the conflict alert began.

Night over the Mojave

On February 9, 2024, an Airbus EC130 B4 helicopter carrying Access Bank chief executive Herbert Wigwe and members of his family crossed the Mojave Desert at night as weather deteriorated. The helicopter entered instrument conditions, descended, and struck the terrain.

The passengers included Wigwe; his wife, Doreen; their son, Chizi; and businessman Abimbola Ogunbanjo. The flight connected an American charter operation, federal aviation rules, California terrain, and families and business communities in Nigeria.

The National Transportation Safety Board found that the pilot continued a visual-flight-rules flight into instrument conditions, became spatially disoriented, and lost control. It identified deficient company oversight as a contributing factor, including weaknesses in flight-risk analysis, maintenance-discrepancy logging, and verification that the helicopter complied with Part 135 before departure. The radar altimeter was inoperative.

Jubb served as lead trial counsel for the Wigwe family. The legal team retained aviation specialists and developed the operational record alongside the federal investigation. In February 2026, the case resolved for $11.75 million on behalf of victims’ families.

An accident investigation and a civil action begin with the same flight but answer different questions. The NTSB identifies probable cause to prevent another crash. Civil counsel must determine which people and entities owed duties, what evidence can be admitted, how domestic and foreign interests fit within the forum, and which losses the law will recognize for the family.

Trial Practice

Jubb studied economics at Pennsylvania State University and earned his law degree from Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law in 2014. He joined The Beasley Firm in 2015 and is a licensed pilot and member of the American Board of Trial Advocates.

His trial practice includes medical negligence, aviation, defamation, Title IX, and wrongful use of civil proceedings. He also serves on the Centre County Bar Association’s Board of Governors as a Young Lawyers Division representative.

The common demand is command of the technical record before trial begins: a minute-by-minute medication history, weather and radar data, maintenance logs, specialized-industry terminology, or constitutional procedure.

His cases begin with compressed intervals—a two-hour discharge window, five days of hospital care, thirty seconds on a radar display, or one word circulated through a collector market. They continue through trial and appeal until the evidence has been translated into the final legal form of the result.