PITTSBURGH – A Monroeville nursing home facility says that a former administrator who reported positive COVID-19 diagnoses at the facility to both county and state health authorities – and believes he was fired in retaliation – did not show he engaged in protected activity under the Pennsylvania Whistleblower Act.
PITTSBURGH – A Monroeville nursing home facility says that Pennsylvania’s at-will employment status bars the violation of public policy claim brought by a former administrator who reported positive COVID-19 diagnoses at the facility to both county and state health authorities – and believes he was fired in retaliation.
PHILADELPHIA – Defendants associated with a civil rights violation case filed by an African-American and Muslim contractor who claimed he was first framed for materials theft by a racist employee and then arrested by members of the Philadelphia Police Department, allege that his claims are barred.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia International Airport stock clerk who alleged American Airlines and some of its personnel helped to create a “discriminatory, hostile and bigoted environment” towards African-American employees stands by those claims, after a motion to dismiss was brought by the airline.
PHILADELPHIA – American Airlines is seeking to dismiss claims from a lawsuit brought by a Philadelphia International Airport stock clerk, who alleged the company and some of its personnel helped to create a “discriminatory, hostile and bigoted environment” towards African-American employees.
PITTSBURGH – A nursing home administrator who reported positive COVID-19 diagnoses at the facility to both county and state health authorities says he was fired in retaliation for his actions.
PHILADELPHIA – A Bensalem construction company has denied civil rights violation allegations made by an African-American and Muslim contractor who claimed he was first framed for materials theft by a racist employee, then arrested by members of the Philadelphia Police Department despite there being no evidence he had committed any crime.
PHILADELPHIA – Employers and co-workers of an African-American and Muslim contractor who claimed he was baselessly framed for materials theft by a racist colleague say there is no merit to his suit and that it should be thrown out.
PHILADELPHIA – An African-American and Muslim contractor claims he was framed for materials theft by a racist employee of a business he was working at and arrested by members of the Philadelphia Police Department, despite there being no evidence he had committed any crime.
PHILADELPHIA – A stock clerk working at Philadelphia International Airport for American Airlines alleges the company has “created a discriminatory, hostile and bigoted environment towards its African-American employees,” in a new lawsuit.
PHILADELPHIA – The case of an Alabama plaintiff who claimed to be injured after using the Essure birth control device, one of 16 filed against Bayer Pharmaceuticals in a Philadelphia court from women similarly-situated, was recently abandoned.
PHILADELPHIA – A 25-year veteran correctional officer with the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) alleges she suffered retaliation and harassment from her superiors.
PHILADELPHIA – A lawsuit from a concrete worker allegedly struck by a falling metal object on the job against the construction entities with ties to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Schuylkill project is heading to trial next spring.
PHILADELPHIA – A plaintiff attorney in the punitive damages trial for Risperdal argued Friday that an independent biostatistician who reviewed the drug’s data for a reanalysis conducted in 2015, was in fact a former consultant for Johnson & Johnson who had worked on other litigation the company was involved in.
The following cases categorized as "contract" cases were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Sept. 12. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "contract" cases were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Sept. 9. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "contract" cases were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Aug. 16. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "contract" cases were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Sept. 6. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP represented Eastern Long Island Hospital (ELIH) in its recently announced affiliation with Stony Brook Medicine.
PHILADELPHIA – An insurance company alleges negligently constructed tubing used for fuel gas at a Mount Joy property caused a fire after a lightning strike.