United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Metro Beauty Academy, LLC (“MBA”) has agreed to pay $425,000 to resolve allegations that the school falsely sought federal student aid for students ineligible to receive such aid.
ALLENTOWN – A Lehigh County couple have launched litigation against a manufacturer of equipment for coil coating used in metals processing, arguing its negligence led to the husband-plaintiff’s serious injuries at work.
PHILADELPHIA – A Delaware County man has launched litigation against both the Toro lawn equipment company and Home Depot, after he allegedly suffered serious injuries to his left hand while using a leaf blower.
SCRANTON – A pair of former servers of a Longhorn Steakhouse restaurant in Wilkes-Barre claim they were subjected to a long line of sexual assaults on the job at the hands of the restaurant’s managing partner, and were fired when they objected to his alleged behavior.
ALLENTOWN – A commercial leasing agent says it’s not responsible for the alleged actions of a massage therapist that allegedly assaulted a California woman in an Allentown nail salon and spa it manages, nor did it engage in sex traffficking.
ALLENTOWN – An attorney who recently filed a class action lawsuit in a Philadelphia federal court on behalf of all U.S. citizens impacted by the coronavirus against the People’s Republic of China has brought another similar case against the Chinese nation and its foremost political party – only now in Allentown and specifically on behalf of more than 20 different professionals and business owners, plus an FBI employee.
PHILADELPHIA – Medical professionals involved in a surgery that is alleged to have resulted in his wife’s death from internal bleeding are seeking to dismiss negligence counts from the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the patient’s husband.
MEDIA – Another negligence-related injury lawsuit over the temperature of coffee against an eastern Pennsylvania Wawa was recently settled, after nearly 10 months of litigation.
The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Feb. 21. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Estate of Diane Helen Raymond and John T. Raymond against Abc Corporations, Amanda R. Lieberman, Errin J. Hoffman, John Does, Lehigh Valley Hospital Inc. and THE Allentown Specialty Hospital on Feb. 21.
ALLENTOWN – The owner of a house rented through Airbnb and which is involved in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the brother of a woman who died after falling down its basement stairs, has hit back at claims she was negligent for the death.
PHILADELPHIA – An Allentown carpenter who was injured when a scissor lift allegedly malfunctioned is seeking more than $150,000 from the lift's manufacturer and a rental company.
PHILADELPHIA – An Allentown nail salon and spa is facing a suit filed by a California woman who alleges one of its massage therapists assaulted her during a session.
PHILADELPHIA – Allentown-based Lehigh Cement is facing a suit filed by eight states, the federal government and others alleging violations of the Clean Air Act at its manufacturing plants.
PHILADELPHIA – Allentown-based Genus Lifesciences alleges a supplier misappropriated its trade secrets for a cocaine hydrochloride anesthetic solution.
Philadelphia – U.S. District Court Judge Joseph F. Leeson denied, for the second time, a motion for reconsideration by Aurellio Bonilla in his lawsuit against the city of Allentown and the Allentown Police Pension Fund Association.
