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Lawsuit: UPMC doctors missed condition which led to plaintiff's thyroid cancer
PITTSBURGH – An Altoona couple alleges that doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center failed to follow up on the wife-plaintiff’s initial diagnosis of adenopathy, which she says led her to develop late-stage thyroid cancer. -
Pittsburgh parents maintain claims that local café’s tea severely burned their 2-year-old son
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh couple insist that a local café’s tea was manufactured and marketed defectively, due to its excessive heat and an accompanying lack of warnings, leading to their two-year-old son being burned severely when he came into contact with it. -
Lyft driver shot and killed passenger in Sheetz parking lot in self-defense, reply filing claims
PITTSBURGH – A Lyft driver accused of shooting a 55-year-old man to death in August 2022 in the parking lot of a Sheetz convenience store has claimed that his actions were only taken in self-defense. -
Pittsburgh café: Our tea wasn't responsible for burning two-year-old boy in 2019
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh café has denied that its tea was responsible for severely burning a then-two-year-old boy, during a visit to the café by the boy and his mother more than four years ago. -
Woman injured during daughter's dance recital seeking default judgment against DoubleTree hotel
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for a woman injured in a Pittsburgh hotel ballroom while watching her daughter’s dance recital and who had alleged that a negligent makeshift table setup used for the event was the proximate cause of her injuries, is now seeking a default judgment against the hotel in question. -
Allegheny County says it was following the rules when rejecting religious reasons for COVID vax refusal
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County insists that it did not violate its own Home Rule Charter and Administrative Code and that it is immune from a count of negligent infliction of emotional distress, in a lawsuit over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate allegedly violating a plaintiff’s religious objections. -
Woman loses lawsuit against Pittsburgh and police officer she says arrested her for not supporting Trump
PITTSBURGH – One Pittsburgh police officer successfully defended himself from a lawsuit brought by a woman who alleged she was unlawfully arrested because she didn’t support former President Donald Trump. -
Judge sustains manufacturer's preliminary objections in man's cylindrical cask injury case
PITTSBURGH – A state court judge has sustained preliminary objections from a Turtle Creek-based manufacturer sued by a Western Pennsylvania man who claims that he lost two fingers on his left hand when a heavy-duty cylindrical cask he was helping to load slipped from a skid and crushed his hand. -
Lawsuit: Restaurant's placement of wire bread rack led to plaintiff's injuries
PITTSBURGH – A local woman alleges that a restaurant was negligent in placing a wire bread rack on its premises, causing her to trip and fall during a visit to that same restaurant nearly a year and a half ago. -
German restaurant denies it discriminated against gay and disabled ex-employee
PITTSBURGH – A German restaurant in Pittsburgh has denied liability in a discrimination lawsuit from a former employee, who accused it of discriminating against him for his homosexuality and disability, and later firing him without cause. -
Pittsburgh attorney holds onto breach of contract claim against his former firm
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh attorney maintains that his former law firm breached his employment contract and owes him thousands of dollars in unpaid wages, in violation of both state and federal law. -
Lawsuit: Homeowners say neighbors' parking pad caused their finished basement to flood
PITTSBURGH – A pair of Western Pennsylvania homeowners have sued their next-door neighbors, claiming that the defendants’ illegally-constructed parking area has resulted in groundwater runoff flooding their finished basement. -
Allegheny County couple stand by injury claims against Monroeville Kohl's store
PITTSBURGH – An Allegheny County couple maintain that the wife-plaintiff fell inside a Kohl’s department store in Monroeville, allegedly due to the company’s negligence. -
Allegheny General Hospital disavows liability for parking gate arm, which struck woman's head
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny General Hospital and its parking garage deny allegations from a Pittsburgh couple, who claimed one of the defendants’ employees negligently allowed a parking gate arm to fall and strike the wife-plaintiff on the head, causing her severe injuries. -
UPMC McKeesport denies it didn't catch man's fatal pulmonary embolism
PITTSBURGH – University of Pittsburgh McKeesport hospital and its physicians have denied that they were liable for allegedly failing to discover a 33-year-old man’s pulmonary embolism, which caused his death last summer. -
Judge: Punitive damages will not be stricken from tenant's lawsuit against apartment complex
PITTSBURGH – An Allegheny County judge has declined to strike punitive damages from a lawsuit brought by a tenant against their apartment complex, arguing that its alleged negligence caused them to fall on an icy sidewalk and fracture one of their lumbar vertebrae. -
Glassport church and food bank deny liability for volunteers' alleged molestation by parishioner
PITTSBURGH – A Glassport church and its community food bank have denied responsibility for the alleged molestation of two young women volunteering for those groups by a fellow parishioner. -
George Junior Republic treatment center says man making sex abuse allegations hasn't pled claims
PITTSBURGH – The George Junior Republic rehabilitation and treatment center has argued that a man accusing its staff of sexually abusing him when he was just 16 years old, has not properly or sufficiently pled his claims under the law. -
North Braddock cemetery rejects allegations it conducted an improper burial
PITTSBURGH – A North Braddock cemetery holds that it conducted a proper burial for a plaintiff’s deceased wife, and did not fail to alleviate the plaintiff’s subsequent concerns and/or requests for correction in that regard. -
Plaintiff who suffered fractured vertebrae says apartment building owner's objections are groundless
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh man maintains that due to his apartment building owner’s negligence, he suffered a fall on an icy sidewalk and fractured one of his lumbar vertebrae – standing in opposition to the owner’s preliminary objections, which he says have no basis in law.