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Judge ends insurance dispute over fire caused by murderer who threw gasoline in girlfriend's face
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has dismissed a Bucks County company's bad faith claim against its insurer over a fire that damaged its business, ruling that moving forward with the case would be "futile."
Commonwealth Court lifts seal on Milton Hershey School litigation enough to issue opinion on jurisdiction question
HARRISBURG – The seal on a case in Milton Hershey School's litigation with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission was lifted just enough earlier this month for the public to see an opinion in the case.
Federal judge dismisses half of the claims in former Talen Energy employee's wrongful termination lawsuit
SCRANTON – A federal judge has dismissed a portion of a Wapwallopen man's lawsuit against Talen Energy Corp. and Susquehanna Nuclear who he claims fired him after he failed a drug and alcohol screening that then prevented him from getting a job elsewhere.
Court: Can't sue for fall on icy ramp if you knew it was dangerous to walk on
PHILADELPHIA – A woman who was injured when she fell while trying to traverse a hospital's icy handicap ramp she was walking on an unsafe surface and her case was justifiably dismissed, a Superior Court of Pennsylvania three-judge panel recently ruled.
Former employees suing disgraced AG Kane lose effort to obtain her attorney communications
PHILADELPHIA – Former Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General employees caught up in the scandal around disgraced former Attorney General Kathleen Kane won't be getting her attorney communications, a federal judge recently ruled.
Discovery dispute in litigation against Novartis, Par will not move to New York, federal judge rules
PHILADELPHIA – A discovery dispute in litigation against Swiss and New Jersey-based pharmaceutical companies over release of a leukemia drug will not be moved from Pennsylvania to New York, a federal judge recently ruled.
Judge stops whistleblower case against former UnitedHealth subsidiary after DOJ asks for dismissal
PHILADELPHIA – A whistleblower's seven-year-old complaint over allegations of False Claims Act violations against a former UnitedHealth Group subsidiary - a suit the government opposed - now has been fully dismissed.
Judge keeps alive case of man allegedly injured by blade fragment in hot dog purchased at Walmart
SCRANTON – The case of a man injured in 2015 when he bit into a hot dog that allegedly contained a blade fragment will move forward following a federal judge's decision issued earlier this month.
Corning wants lawsuit over exploding pot tossed from court
PITTSBURGH – A New York company named as a defendant in a Pittsburgh woman's claim that she was injured by an exploding pot earlier this year asked a federal judge to dismiss the case, saying it hasn't made that pot in more than two decades.
Union's FLSA claim against contractor in federally funded SEPTA project awaits special master's findings
A now decade-long Philadelphia-based union local's claims that a Lititz contractor underpaid workers for electrical jobs during a federally funded Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) project now awaits the outcome of a special master's findings.
Child's lawsuit against midget football league over brain trauma is an inappropriate do-over, defendant says
LANCASTER — A midget football league being sued by a Lititz mother and son over traumatic brain injuries allegedly suffered by the child in 2017 objected in September to having to answer a second lawsuit that it says is identical to the first.
Continental Tire asks to be dismissed from Bucks County man's personal injury lawsuit
PHILADELPHIA — A North Carolina-based tire company is asking a federal court to dismiss it from a Bucks County man's personal injury lawsuit.
Pa. Supreme Court strikes down part of 2002 legislation, gives med-mal plaintiffs more time to sue
PITTSBURGH - The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and other defendants in a medical malpractice lawsuit over a failed liver transplant in 2003 will have to fight that litigation after a sharply split Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out a seven-year time bar.
Superior Court revives Mississippi woman's Philadelphia lawsuit
A Mississippi woman's product liability case against a Bethlehem-based medical device maker is on its way back to a Philadelphia court after a state intermediate appellate court ruled it should not have been dismissed.
Golfer hit by ball on Lancaster Co. course shanks his chance to sue
An East Earl Township golfer allegedly hit by a ball on a Lancaster County course in 2015 can't sue because he didn't follow proper legal procedures in a timely manner, a state intermediate appellate court recently ruled.
New Jersey federal judge transfers securities class action against USA Technologies to Pennsylvania
NEWARK, N.J. — A securities litigation class action alleging a Pennsylvania company's falsified financial reports cost one investor nearly $2 million has been transferred from a federal court in New Jersey.
Federal judge dismisses former UPenn employee's retaliation lawsuit, says no 'pattern of antagonism' shown
A federal judge recently dismissed a former University of Pennsylvania employee's disability and retaliation lawsuit over his 2017 firing, saying no "pattern of antagonism" had been shown.
Student suspended for racist Snapchats can sue her high school
PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge is keeping alive a Springfield Township High School student's freedom of speech lawsuit against the school over her suspension last spring following distribution of a video of her voicing race-based hate.
Pennsylvania company asks judge to send Irish man's lawsuit to Canada, where alleged injury occurred
SCRANTON — A McConnellsburg Bedford boom manufacturer, being sued by a man injured while working on one of its booms in Toronto, has asked a federal judge to grant the man's motion to dismiss the case so he can file it in Canada.
American Airlines asks federal judge to toss case over woman's injuries
PHILADELPHIA — A Fort Worth, Texas-based airline being sued by a Huntingdon Valley couple over an employee's fall that allegedly caused injuries in a jet bridge last year is asking a federal judge to throw out the case.