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Pa. Supreme Court to determine key aspect of product liability cases
PHILADELPHIA – Today, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania is due to hear oral arguments in an action which will have great import for future product liability trials statewide, as it determines whether or not trial courts are permitted to prevent defendants from using evidence pertaining to industry standards.
Busing company alleges McKeesport officials conspired to remove it from school district contract
PITTSBURGH – A school bus transportation company has filed suit against the City of McKeesport, the McKeesport Area School District and several District and political officials, alleging that the defendants conspired and acted to remove it from an agreement to provide the District with busing, as an act of political retaliation.
Bottling plant worker says equipment failed and burned her with harmful chemicals
PITTSBURGH – A batching operator at a Pennsylvania bottling plant alleges that a hose attached to clean-in-place unit separated from its apparatus and sprayed a mixture of harmful chemicals on her body, leading her to suffer severe burn injuries.
Chester charter school denies it failed to prevent kindergartener's sexual assaults
PHILADELPHIA – A charter school in Chester has denied responsibility for allegedly failing to prevent the repeated sexual assaults of one of its kindergarten students, by their classmate.
African-American culture center curator reasserts staircase fall led to her injuries
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.
Suit alleging husband was nearly killed in pressurized fan system sent to complex litigation center
PITTSBURGH – A couple’s negligence lawsuit which argues that U.S. Steel and a number of other defendants were liable for injuries the husband-plaintiff suffered when he was sucked into a pressurized fan system and nearly killed has been sent to the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas’s Commerce and Complex Litigation Center.
Pa. Supreme Court approves fee reimbursement in environmental cases
HARRISBURG – Recently, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a decision approving a move from members of the public and environmental advocacy groups to seek legal costs reimbursement, in a pair of prominent ecological lawsuits.
Plaintiff alleges repeated sexual assault at the hands of Newtown Square chiropractor
MEDIA – A Pennsylvania woman alleges she was subjected to sexual assault and battery by her chiropractor, who was convicted in January of several counts of indecent assault and aggravated indecent assault for sexually abusing several patients over a six year-period.
Defendants dismissed from suit surrounding supposed faulty light bulb which landed on plaintiff
PITTSBURGH – A pair of defendants have been conditionally dismissed from litigation alleging that a Westmoreland County woman was injured at a music concert, when a long, fluorescent light bulb fell from the ceiling of the concert venue and landed on top of her head.
Water park denies responsibility for injuries plaintiff allegedly suffered on 'Serpentine Slide' ride
PITTSBURGH – An amusement park has denied that it was responsible for injuries a Trafford woman alleged she suffered on a waterslide amusement attraction known as the “Serpentine Slide.”
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Ambulance service denies it injured woman who fell off stretcher during medical event
PITTSBURGH – A local ambulance service denies it was negligent and that it allegedly caused head, wrist and other injuries to an Arnold woman when she fell off one of its stretchers.
Defendants' failure to remedy electrical system defects led to fatal house fire, plaintiff says
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for a Pennsylvania woman argues that the plaintiff’s daughter’s death in an electrical fire in September 2021 would have been prevented, had the defendants been aware of the defects present in the home’s electricity systems.
Instant Pot manufacturer finalizes settlement in suit over plaintiff's burn injuries
JOHNSTOWN – The manufacturer of an Instant Pot Programmable Electric Pressure Cooker agreed to settle claims for serious burn injuries a Western Pennsylvania woman allegedly suffered using the device over four years ago.
U.S. government settles claims in med-mal suit against Honesdale obstetrician
SCRANTON – The U.S. government has settled claims made by the parents of a newborn baby girl who suffered a skull fracture at birth and resulting brain damage, due to alleged medical negligence on the part of the obstetrician.
Survival, wrongful death counts dropped from suit in fatal drowning of woman with dementia
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has conditionally dismissed counts of survival and wrongful death against a taxi cab company, who a plaintiff says was responsible for the death of a woman afflicted with dementia, who was dropped off by one of the company’s cabs and wandered alone before later drowning in the swimming pool of one of the suit’s co-defendants.
Stay enacted in entrepreneur's litigation against ride share company Lyft
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge recently ordered a stay and the provision of continual updates in litigation involving a Philadelphia entrepreneur/musician and rideshare company Lyft, with the plaintiff having alleged the company stole and misappropriated his concepts for corporate philanthropy without compensation.
Suit: Man fell through floor opening and landed on drywall and concrete
PITTSBURGH – An Allegheny County couple allege that the husband-plaintiff suffered a myriad of serious injuries, when he fell through a floor opening and landed on a stack of drywall and a concrete floor.
Judge approves removal of defendant from suit over FDA-recalled surgical scaffold
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has approved the dismissal of one medical company from a couple’s litigation alleging that the wife-plaintiff developed breast cancer, after not being informed that a surgical scaffold used in her 2015 breast augmentation surgery was the subject of an FDA recall, 10 days after said surgery.
Homeowner and realty service seek discovery answers from man who fell during open house
PITTSBURGH – A homeowner and a realty service are seeking to compel answers to its discovery questions for a plaintiff’s who claimed he suffered injuries during an open house event where the plaintiff was touring one of the defendant’s homes.
Maryland woman maintains claims of excessive force from Lancaster police officers
ALLENTOWN – A Maryland woman stands by claims she was the victim of excessive force from Lancaster Police Department officers and suffered a broken arm in the process, when the police came to her residence and forcibly evicted her.