About Frank

Frank A. Gerolamo, III was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1954. He received a B.A. degree from Dickinson College in 1976 and a J.D. from Delaware Law School in 1981. Following law school, he worked as a law clerk for United States Magistrate Judge Peter B. Scuderi in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Until 2001, he worked for two general litigation insurance defense firms in Philadelphia.

Since 1988, Frank has specialized in the defense of medical negligence cases and he is one of the founding partners in the law firm of Gerolamo McNulty Divis Lewbart & Fox

with offices in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The firm handles almost every kind of civil litigation. He continues to handle almost exclusively medical negligence cases against individual physicians and hospitals. He has successfully defended physicians of all medical disciplines in jury trials in both State and Federal Court. 

Frank has lectured and taught medical school students and residents on all issues involving the interplay between the law and medicine. He has also been a guest lecturer at local colleges (Eastern University), law schools (Temple University – Beasley School of Law) and medical schools (Drexel University College of Medicine; Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine) concerning all aspects of medical negligence. He has successfully represented physicians not only at trial but through the Appellate Courts including the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. 

Frank has been elected as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer annually from 2004 through 2024. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. He has received an A.V. rating from Martindale-Hubbell. 

Some of Mr. Gerolamo’s reported case decisions of note: 

1. Ney v. Axelrod, 723 A.2d 719 (Pa. Super. 1999) (dismissal of physician who performed pre- employment screening as no physician patient relationship was in existence with the Plaintiff) 

2. Toogood v. Rogal, 824 A.2d 1140 (Pa. 2003) (judgment notwithstanding the verdict entered in favor of defendants/refining an analysis of res ipsa loquitor) 

3. Miller v. Ginsberg, 874 A.2d 9(Pa. Super. 2005) (enforcement of high-low agreements in medical negligence cases) 

4. McSorley v. Deger, 905 A.2d 524 (Pa. Super. 2007) (surgical consent form includes coverage for physician asked to do emergency intra-operative consult)