Stephen Ernst
This is the page this site exists to catch. It publishes five precise Philadelphia crash counts for 2023 — including 842 rideshare crashes and 202 passenger-door injuries — and names no source for any of them. We fetched it and confirmed every figure is on the page.
The bar record
We read Stephen Ernst in the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s attorney search. Every row below is the Board’s — this register carries no self-reported practice block at all.
Eleven registers, and this is the first that does not ask the question. Texas prints “No Public Disciplinary History”. Florida gives ten years. Washington shows a blank and warns its search may miss things. New York answers and then sends you to the Appellate Division. California prints a docket and links the court file. Massachusetts says “None” or “Yes” and links the decision. Pennsylvania’s attorney detail has no disciplinary field on it at all. So this listing carries a dash — the third distinct reason for a dash on this site, and the only one that is about the shape of the form rather than the content of the answer. The Board publishes discipline elsewhere; we have not searched those resources, and until we do, no green tick belongs here.
What it does publish is unique in the other direction. Where Washington and Massachusetts record professional liability insurance as a yes-or-no, Pennsylvania prints a sentence in the lawyer’s own voice, with a figure and a rule citation: “I maintain… at least $100,000 per occurrence and $300,000 in the aggregate… as set forth in Rule of Professional Conduct 1.4(c).” It is still a self-report. But of eleven registers, this is the only one that quotes the lawyer speaking rather than summarising them into a checkbox. It also gives a county and a disciplinary district, administrative geography no other register on this site publishes.
What the record shows
Under a heading offering some local statistics from 2023, the page gives: 842 Uber/Lyft crashes, 325 taxi rear-end accidents, 152 limo crashes, 202 passenger-door injuries, and 2.7% of all for-hire-vehicle crashes at airport pickups. We loaded the page on 18 August 2026 and confirmed all five. Not one carries an attribution.Verified
This is the exact shape of the failure this site was rebuilt around. Our own homepage once carried eighteen invented statistics of precisely this kind, sitting above our own articles proving such figures are not published. Nobody releases Philadelphia crash counts broken out by passenger-door injuries. We reprint none of the five, and we are not saying they were invented — we are saying an unsourced number is not evidence, however specific it looks.Verified
The same page is only the second across one hundred and ninety-nine listings to name an autonomous-vehicle operator, after Barbara Savaglio in San Diego. It states the firm handles cases involving all rideshare services including Waymo, and correctly separates taxis and limousines as common carriers rather than TNCs.Verified
So one page manages both the worst sourcing in the batch and one of the two most forward-looking statements on the site. Those are not contradictory; they are what an unedited marketing page looks like.Verified
What the firm says
He says he served in the United States Navy as a Naval Flight Officer, deployed aboard the USS Ranger and flew in combat operations during Operation Desert Storm, leaving active service as a Lieutenant Commander.Reported
He says his decorations included an Air Medal with Combat Distinguishing Device and a Navy Commendation Medal with Combat Distinguishing Device.Reported
He says he clerked for Justice Ronald D. Castille, later Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, worked at Blank Rome, and joined Segal, Berk, Gaines & Liss in July 1999.Reported
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What we haven’t checked
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