PITTSBURGH – The Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad contends that a former repairman and engineer who contracted Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma may have contributed to his diagnosis, rather than the railroad being liable for exposing him to toxic substances.
SCRANTON – A local hospital responds that claims of professional negligence levied against it are improper, in a suit alleging the defendants failed to identify and diagnose a Scranton woman’s Stage III pancreatic cancer.
MEDIA – Attorneys for Kindred Healthcare argue that a lawsuit, alleging a plaintiff was seriously injured during a rehabilitation session after leg amputation surgery, should instead be redirected through alternative dispute resolution.
PHILADELPHIA – A Montgomery County man alleges that he was defrauded after entering into a home equity loan transaction totaling more than $200,000 with a Philadelphia investment firm.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man alleges that his Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma is the result of many years of exposure to toxic substances in his work duties for the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad.
PHILADELPHIA – Litigation between a Montgomery County law firm and a Connecticut insurance company for allegedly not rendering payment for its services on 27 different cases has been dismissed.
PHILADELPHIA – A Montgomery County law firm has brought litigation against a Connecticut insurance company, for allegedly not rendering payment for its services on 27 different cases.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has ordered that class action litigation brought by a New York-based bed and breakfast against the Lloyd’s of London insurance company and its underwriter for failing to provide it and fellow class members with business interruption coverage during the coronavirus pandemic, will be stayed.
WASHINGTON – A Philadelphia-area attorney with extensive background in representing plaintiffs for both pharmaceutical and medical device litigation was recently chosen as the new President of the American Association for Justice, which was formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
PHILADELPHIA – Underwriters from the Lloyd’s of London insurance company are looking to shut down class action litigation brought by the Independence Beer Garden in Philadelphia, saying policy exclusions precluded the plaintiff from receiving its business interruption coverage during the coronavirus pandemic.
PHILADELPHIA – A New Mexico mineral company is seeking confirmation of a multimillion-dollar arbitration award against a Pennsylvania investment group owned by a woman arrested by the FBI and charged with running a Ponzi scheme.
ALLENTOWN – An attorney who recently filed a class action lawsuit in a Philadelphia federal court on behalf of all U.S. citizens impacted by the coronavirus against the People’s Republic of China has brought another similar case against the Chinese nation and its foremost political party – only now in Allentown and specifically on behalf of more than 20 different professionals and business owners, plus an FBI employee.
SCRANTON — An Illinois company has successfully secured the removal of a personal injury lawsuit from the Cumberland Court of Common Pleas to federal court.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia man who sued the landlord/bar owners located below his apartment for allegedly overserving him, prior to an accident he sustained walking upstairs that left him severely injured, has settled his case.
PHILADELPHIA – A lawsuit alleging the railroad companies that a deceased switchman worked for violated the Federal Employers Liability Act and Locomotive Inspection Act by failing to protect the decedent from exposure to toxic substances, has been discontinued by its plaintiffs.
PHILADELPHIA –A woman’s negligence-related injury complaint filed against the City of Philadelphia and a pair of property owners which had been transferred to mandatory arbitration, has been dismissed after the plaintiff failed to continue pursuing her case.
PHILADELPHIA – As the year begins to draw to a close, filings in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas’s Complex Litigation Center have increased with the presence of two new mass tort programs for Vena Cava Filters and the Essure birth control device, both of which feature a number of out-of-state plaintiffs and counsel.
PHILADELPHIA – Litigation filed by a train repairman who alleged both Conrail and Norfolk Southern Railway disregarded the Federal Employers Liability Act by exposing him to repetitive occupational trauma and leaving him with permanent shoulder and knee injuries, has discontinued his case without prejudice.
PHILADELPHIA – A Federal Employers Liability Act-based lawsuit brought against Norfolk Southern Railway Company for alleged workplace negligence leading one of its former employees to contract lung cancer, is likely to be refiled in a Georgia court, per a recent voluntary dismissal.
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