The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Kay Barrett and Ronald Barrett against Merck & Co. Inc. and Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. on Feb. 7:
HARRISBURG – Venue guidelines governing medical malpractice litigation statewide which were brought into law through 2002’s Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (MCARE) Act may be abandoned by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Civil Procedural Rules Committee.
PHILADELPHIA – Counsel for defendants listed in an action where a contractor who suffered an electric shock renovating a break room in Home Depot have called his requests for pre-complaint discovery “overly broad” and seek to have a protective order approved to preclude it.
PHILADELPHIA – A New Jersey woman who says she was struck by a metal support beam at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and seriously injured now charges a Delaware County construction company with negligence for allegedly creating that unsafe condition, a claim the company denies.
PHILADELPHIA – A Bucks County man is suing the manufacturers of his upholstery, claiming its defective design and lack of fire-retardant barriers led to him suffering burns on one-third of his body in an apartment fire nearly three years ago.
PHILADELPHIA – One of the entities listed in a lawsuit filed as a result of a Philadelphia man’s injuries from a nine-story elevator fall in a Center City commercial building has been conditionally dismissed from the action.
PHILADELPHIA – A lawsuit filed against Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) over a train collision which injured more than 30 people last year is stayed, pending consideration of the transport entity’s damages cap and the release of official investigation data from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
MEDIA – After not being picked to a coveted leadership role in Pennsylvania’s opioid litigation, a Conshohocken plaintiffs firm is pleading with a Delaware County judge to reconsider.
PHILADELPHIA – According to a plaintiff counsel’s motion, the lawsuit concerning a man injured by a falling track loader/excavator while stationed in his work vehicle was discontinued without prejudice.
PHILADELPHIA – A man claiming to have been permanently blinded and catastrophically injured by a faulty moulding machine at a local lumber facility, has sued the manufacturers of the device and the work site where he incurred those same injuries.
PHILADELPHIA – The son of a man who suffered cardiac arrest at a cyclocross event, which was allegedly without proper and immediate medical equipment and treatment, and then died three days later has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the both the organizers and sponsors of the event.
PHILADELPHIA – According to a plaintiff’s recent motion, the wrongful death lawsuit revolving around the death of their spouse, a landscaping contractor will be discontinued without prejudice.
PHILADELPHIA – A product liability action alleging that a lawnmower malfunctioned and maimed one of the plaintiffs was discontinued not even three months after its filing, according to court records.
PHILADELPHIA – Per a state court judge’s outlined case management order, a wrongful death lawsuit revolving around the death of a landscaping contractor will hold a number of proceedings in 2018 and see the inside of a courtroom at this time next year.
PHILADELPHIA – The families of three men said to have been brutally murdered by Cosmo DiNardo and his cousin Sean Michael Kratz on the DiNardo Family farm in Bucks County last summer filed wrongful death litigation this week against DiNardo, Kratz, DiNardo’s family and their businesses.
PHILADELPHIA – Recently, a settlement was obtained prior to arbitration between a group of Philadelphia tenants, including a minor plaintiff, and their former apartment management company for negligence, in a case connected to allegations the company did not protect the plaintiffs from being attacked by bed bugs.
PHILADELPHIA – An H&M store employee who claims to have suffered a traumatic brain injury after his head collided with a fire sprinkler and sprinkler cage at the Plymouth Meeting Mall is suing all of the entities allegedly responsible for his assortment of injuries.