PHILADELPHIA – A Bucks County man has voluntarily discontinued litigation against a pair of manufacturers for negligence and other causes of action in federal court, after his legs were allegedly crushed while using a turntable stretch wrapper machine.
PHILADELPHIA – The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is seeking the dismissal of litigation brought by a Chester County man who alleged he was illegally subjected to detainment, search, arrest and a blood test for DUI without probable cause by a Pennsylvania state trooper.
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s newest justice will be Commonwealth Court Judge P. Kevin Brobson, who narrowly defeated Superior Court Judge Maria McLaughlin in the appellate court elections on Tuesday.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge determined that plaintiffs in a class action will be able to conduct limited discovery towards an arbitration motion filed by an Illinois online lender which allegedly charged usurious interest rates on loans it offered to its customers.
PITTSBURGH – An employee of a carpet cleaning service who claimed he was wrongfully terminated during the COVID-19 pandemic, when he objected to working in areas where social distancing and wearing of protective personal equipment was not being practiced, has seen his case dismissed in state court.
HARRISBURG – Lebanon County and one of its officials have denied responsibility for a chain of events that led to the death of a 12-year-old boy from an alleged long pattern of child abuse, and which is now the subject of a wrongful death lawsuit.
JOHNSTOWN – The manufacturer of a device created to assist babies in sleeping has denied allegations from an Altoona couple that the defective machine caused the death of their three-month-old son from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
SCRANTON – Geisinger Health System has completely denied allegations of negligence from a woman who claimed she suffered arm and neurological damage during a tenodesis surgery last year.
PHILADELPHIA – A New Jersey elevator manufacturer argues that it was not responsible for injuries that a Philadelphia woman says she suffered when her skirt became caught in the escalator of a Macy’s mall store in Bucks County.
PHILADELPHIA – The Borough of Pottstown and its police officials deny accusations that they imposed excessive force upon a Chester County woman when they arrested the plaintiff at Pottstown Hospital two years ago.
PITTSBURGH – An Illinois online lender contends that a Washington County woman’s class action lawsuit claiming it charged usurious interest rates on loans it offered to its customers should be handled through arbitration, or alternatively dismissed.
PHILADELPHIA – A Delaware County woman who claimed she was injured inside the bathroom of a British Airways flight from New York to London and brought legal action against the airliner under the Montreal Convention treaty, has settled her claims against the airline.
PITTSBURGH – A carpet cleaning service accused of wrongfully terminating a former employee for his objection to working in areas where protective measures were not being practiced during the COVID-19 pandemic, has again argued that the plaintiff has not shown a public policy exception to his at-will employment status.
SCRANTON – A woman who alleges she suffered arm and neurological damage during a tenodesis surgery last year has brought a professional liability action against the hospital system through which the procedure was conducted.
WILLIAMSPORT – Verizon has filed for summary judgment in a suit which claimed a municipal zoning board in North Central Pennsylvania violated federal law in denying it the opportunity to build a cell phone tower, and that the denial prevents a sizable area from obtaining its wireless telecommunications services.
PITTSBURGH – A Washington County woman’s class action lawsuit that an Illinois online lender violated state laws in charging usurious interest rates on loans it offered to its customers, has been removed to a Pennsylvania federal court.
LANCASTER — A motorcyclist who suffered fractures ribs and other injuries after sliding on oil and stones on a roadway in Paradise Township is claiming the PennDOT's negligence.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling which eliminated Gov. Tom Wolf’s unprecedented COVID-19 emergency restrictions, finding the issue to be moot because not only have those restrictions expired in the interim, but voters statewide have also since amended the state constitution to roll back a governor’s range of emergency powers.
SCRANTON — A scooter driver claims the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and its contractors left loose gravel and other debris on the roadway which caused his scooter to overturn.