PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has authorized a settlement between a group of plaintiffs and the City of Philadelphia, over the plaintiffs’ claims the City failed to maintain its sidewalks to provide proper access to disabled citizens in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
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.
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh-area museum’s curator has reiterated claims that she suffered severe injuries in a fall on the center’s grounds, due to an alleged defectively-constructed staircase which also lacked a handrail.
PITTSBURGH – U.S. Steel has deemed class action litigation from a Western Pennsylvania homeowner, which alleged its refinery plant in Braddock has generated pollutant byproducts which have affected the quality of life of area residents, as “at most, a claim for private nuisance.”
LANCASTER – In a suit which claimed a landlord’s negligence resulted in the ceiling of the plaintiff’s prior domicile collapsing on her, due to failure to repair a leak in her living room ceiling, the landlord has brought preliminary objections to dismiss claims for lack of specificity.
PITTSBURGH — A woman alleges she was raped by a maintenance worker at a Residence Inn extended stay hotel in Pittsburgh who was hired despite being a convicted felon.
PITTSBURGH — The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh alleges a developer's failure to fix a water line caused more than $300,000 in damage to their property.
PITTSBURGH — A Port Authority bus driver who was injured in the January 2022 Fern Hollow Bridge collapse claims the City of Pittsburgh knew the bridge was in poor condition. Daryl Luciani and Karen E.
PHILADELPHIA – The proprietor of an adult store in Upper Merion Township is seeking to have a declaratory judgment issued that the township’s zoning codes and ordinances are unconstitutional, and thus, violated the plaintiff’s rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
PITTSBURGH – Several Amazon defendants have been dismissed from federal litigation brought by a Western Pennsylvania couple against both the company and the manufacturer of a ladder they claim was defective, subsequent to the wife-plaintiff suffering serious injuries after falling from the ladder while conducting an insurance estimate at a home in Erie.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has granted summary judgment to a company that employed a woman's husband at various naval shipyards over an 18-year period, finding that her 2020 death from mesothelioma and subsequent asbestos exposure claims failed due to a lack of causation.
MEDIA – A Swarthmore woman says her young son was severely cut by broken glass at her apartment complex, and that both it and its real estate company are mutually negligent in causing that event.
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh couple have countered the denials of their Virginia-based landlords, in a case where the plaintiffs allege that faulty wiring nearly caused a fire in the home they rented in Penn Hills.
MEDIA – The Borough of Morton has denied responsibility for injuries suffered by a Delaware County woman when she fell on what she believes was a deficiently maintained sidewalk along Taylor Avenue.
PITTSBURGH – An inmate worker at Fayette County Prison who was injured during a scheduled assignment says prison officials hid the extent of his injuries and subjected him to inhumane living conditions during his time of incarceration.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man stands by allegations that he suffered severe burns on the tops of his feet, after a session in an infrared sauna therapy booth in a Pittsburgh business.
PITTSBURGH – A pilot for a California airline who claimed he suffered medical complications resulting from negligent, prolonged carbon monoxide exposure in the planes he was flying, has settled his claims with the airline.
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has filed a brief to dismiss litigation from a Georgia couple who alleged that a state-maintained guardrail safety system along Interstate 81 failed to decelerate their vehicle, when the vehicle made contact with the guardrail and it speared through the vehicle to injure its driver.
