Lawrence R. Cohan

For more than three decades, Larry has represented victims suffering from rare vaccine injuries before the United States Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C. as part of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. He has been the co-chair of the American Association for Justice Vaccine Injury Litigation Group for more than a decade and has served on the Board of the Vaccine Injured Petitioners Bar Association.

Larry has obtained dozens of seven figure settlements for individuals suffering from GBS, ADEM, CIDP, transverse myelitis, and other serious medical conditions, as well as dozens of recoveries for individuals suffering from SIRVA (shoulder injuries related to vaccine administration).

In addition to the many large settlements Larry has won on behalf of his clients, he has also successfully tried to verdict many cases leading to favorable, landmark decisions, creating new rights for vaccine victims.

I am pro-vaccine. Millions of lives are saved every year by vaccines. We represent individuals who suffer that rare but serious adverse reaction to a vaccination.

Lawrence Cohan

Over his long career, Larry has served for decades on boards of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Associations. He has been recognized among the Top 10 in the state multiple times by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, has been named among the Top 100 Lawyers in Pennsylvania numerous times and has been included in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers publications every year since 2004. In 2021, Best Lawyers recognized Larry as the top medical malpractice attorney in Philadelphia.

Mr. Cohan is a Certified Trial Advocate with the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA), and a New Jersey Certified Civil Trial Attorney.

Larry received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1979, where he served for two years as President of the Law School Environmental Law Group. Upon graduation, he served in a two-year judicial clerkship with the Philadelphia County Trial Court’s Honorable Harry A. Takiff, who founded the asbestos litigation mass tort program.

Larry frequently writes and lectures about vaccine injury law, toxic torts, chemical exposure cases, medical malpractice, and mass torts on both local and national levels.