PHILADELPHIA – Rite Aid and its subsidiaries have initiated legal action against a facility management business and a pair of insurance companies, for allegedly not indemnifying and defending them from an underlying personal injury lawsuit.
PHILADELPHIA – An elderly condominium resident who was injured in an accident in her building, says the defendants involved are blaming each other for the conditions which led to her accident, according to a recently-filed lawsuit.
PHILADELPHIA – A woman who suffered third-degree burns allegedly as a result of an electronic screen on her cordless telephone exploding has filed suit against the phone’s manufacturer, Emerson Electronics, and the retailer that sold it, Rite Aid Pharmacy.
MEDIA – A mechanical contractor is suing a local municipality for allegedly unpaid costs, relating to construction work performed for the municipality’s new police station.
SCRANTON — A former nonprofit employee is suing United Cerebral Palsy of Central PA, alleging violation of Workers' Compensation acts and wrongful termination.
PHILADELPHIA – A state court judge has overruled preliminary objections filed by a plaintiff who says a group of companies designed and sold equipment that was responsible for her late husband’s fatal accident during his tree removal job.
PHILADELPHIA – Counsel for an industrial lift manufacturing company have categorically denied claims from a Pennsylvania woman who said the equipment they designed and sold was responsible for the untimely death of her husband during his tree removal job.
LANCASTER – An Elizabethtown landscape company has filed preliminary objections, in response to a lawsuit where a plaintiff alleged it failed to perform adequate snow removal services and was then injured.
PHILADELPHIA – A Pennsylvania woman recently filed litigation against the manufacturer of an aerial lift and a trucking equipment company, claiming the lift they designed and sold was responsible for the untimely death of her husband during his tree removal job.
HARRISBURG – A negligence and wrongful death action against a Lancaster nursing care facility has been remanded to the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas, per a recent decision from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA – Appellate court judges have decided to remand a civil rights action tied to an arson investigation to its trial court, for further proceedings and analysis on whether the concept of qualified immunity applies to one of the case’s defendants.
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit says a U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylania judge will not be recused from presiding over a civil discrimination case.
PHILADELPHIA – An appeals court recently determined that breach of contract and bad faith claims against Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company were without merit.