PITTSBURGH – A state court judge has sustained preliminary objections from a Turtle Creek-based manufacturer sued by a Western Pennsylvania man who claims that he lost two fingers on his left hand when a heavy-duty cylindrical cask he was helping to load slipped from a skid and crushed his hand.
MEDIA – A local man who alleged that he was bitten by bed bugs during his three-day stay in an Econo Lodge hotel located in Delaware County more than two years ago, has settled his claims.
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny General Hospital and its parking garage deny allegations from a Pittsburgh couple, who claimed one of the defendants’ employees negligently allowed a parking gate arm to fall and strike the wife-plaintiff on the head, causing her severe injuries.
PITTSBURGH – The George Junior Republic rehabilitation and treatment center has argued that a man accusing its staff of sexually abusing him when he was just 16 years old, has not properly or sufficiently pled his claims under the law.
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.
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh couple allege that Allegheny General Hospital, its parking garage and one of its employees negligently allowed a parking gate arm to fall and strike the wife-plaintiff on the head, causing her severe injuries.
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.
LANCASTER – A Delaware man allegedly attacked by a goat is seeking to procure needed discovery evidence from the defendant, evidence which his attorney claims has gone unobtained, despite numerous requests to opposing counsel.
PITTSBURGH – A West Virginia woman alleges her husband’s death was the result of numerous incidents of negligence on the part of his medical caretakers, which led him to suffer a multitude of injuries prior to death.
LANCASTER – The owner of a goat that allegedly attacked a Delaware man has denied all liability and allegations from the plaintiff’s lawsuit, arguing that he was in fact actually responsible for the injuries that he suffered.
LANCASTER – The owner of a goat that allegedly attacked a Delaware man has filed preliminary objections to the plaintiff’s lawsuit, arguing that his allegations of negligence were not properly supported.
PITTSBURGH – A second physician who treated a Pittsburgh man during his gallbladder removal denies that he was liable for the severing of the patient’s bile duct and their continuous injuries.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for a physician who treated a Pittsburgh man during his gallbladder removal deny that their client was liable for the severing of the patient’s bile duct and ongoing injuries.
MEDIA – A local woman who alleged she was seriously injured at a Flag Day event in the Borough of Yeadon two years ago when the support poles of an event tent were uprooted from the ground by a wind gust and struck her in the head, refutes attempts from the Borough to dismiss or limit her counts against it.
MEDIA – Borough of Yeadon entities are seeking to dismiss several aspects of a lawsuit brought a local woman who claimed she was seriously injured at a Flag Day event in Yeadon two years ago, when the support poles of an event tent were uprooted from the ground by a wind gust and struck her in the head.
PITTSBURGH – An Allegheny County couple charge that West Penn Hospital and other medical defendants committed negligence during the husband-plaintiff’s gallbladder removal, leading him to suffer the severance of his bile duct and ongoing pain, among other injuries.
PITTSBURGH – A Boston-based apartment management company has been dismissed from a suit brought by a Pittsburgh woman, who claimed several real estate entities harmed her health by failing to remediate toxic and hazardous mold from her residence.
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh woman states a number of real estate defendants failed to repair and maintain her apartment to avoid the spread of toxic and hazardous mold, thereby causing her personal health at risk and her to lose many of her possessions.
HARRISBURG — A three-judge panel found that the Allegheny General Hospital and several other related defendants were not at fault for medical malpractice.
The following cases categorized as "contract" cases were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on June 21. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
