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Former conductor and brakeman of 36 years settles toxic exposure suit with three companies
PHILADELPHIA – A former train conductor and brakeman of 36 years has settled with three rail and insurance companies which he claimed had violated the Federal Employers Liability Act, by neglecting to provide him a safe workplace and caused him to contract kidney cancer through exposure to toxic substances. -
Insurance agency and Conrail lose chance to dismiss ex-train inspector's toxic exposure litigation
PHILADELPHIA – American Premier Underwriters and Conrail have lost their bid to dismiss litigation filed by a former train car inspector who believes the multiple myeloma he contracted was the result of his former employer violating the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA), by exposing him to toxic substances. -
Toxic exposure suit filed by late switchman's estate may be transferred for improper venue
PHILADELPHIA – A lawsuit alleging the railroad companies that a deceased switchman worked for violated the Federal Employers Liability Act and Locomotive Inspection Act by failing to protect the decedent from exposure to toxic substances, may be transferred for reasons of improper venue. -
Railroad companies seek to dismiss litigation filed by estate of switchman for improper venue
PHILADELPHIA – The defendants in an action where the estate of a deceased train line switchman alleges the railroad companies he worked for violated the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA) and Locomotive Inspection Act (LIA) by failing to protect the decedent from exposure to toxic substances, have filed to dismiss it for improper venue. -
Philly law firm collects over $100K in legal fees from coffee company client
PHILADELPHIA – Law firm Blank Rome was awarded ore than $100,000 in allegedly unpaid legal fees from a Bryn Mawr coffee company, one that it says breached a settlement agreement and initially refused to reconcile it. -
Venue fight over widow's case surrounding her poisoned train repairman husband to be decided in May
PHILADELPHIA – The case of a widow of a locomotive repairman for Conrail and CSX Transportation who claims those companies did not abide by both the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA) and Locomotive Inspection Act (LIA) by not protecting her deceased husband from harmful substances will see its chosen venue determined in May. -
Football player, suing NCAA over his Lou Gehrig's disease, gets September trial date in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA – The case of a former college football linebacker who launched legal action against the NCAA, charging the governing sports body’s alleged negligence in not informing him of the dangers of repeated head trauma led him to develop Lou Gehrig’s disease, is soon coming to a Philadelphia courtroom. -
BLANK ROME: The Top Lateral Hires of 2018
The Legal Intelligencer recently published a special supplement on "The Top Lateral Hires of 2018." The following Blank Rome lateral moves were featured. -
Pa. man's suit saying he suffered spinal injuries on United Airlines flight is dismissed
PHILADELPHIA – A Pennsylvania man who claimed he was injured on a United Airlines flight from Philadelphia to Denver and sued the airline for breach of contract, breach of warranty and negligence has had the litigation dismissed for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. -
Lawsuit: Train switchman wasn't protected from exposure to toxic substances
PHILADELPHIA – The estate of a deceased train line switchman for Penn Central, Conrail and CSX Transportation alleges those same companies violated the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA) and Locomotive Inspection Act (LIA), by failing to protect the decedent from exposure to toxic substances. -
Lawsuit: Rail repairman's safety-violating exposure to toxic substances led to fatal brain cancer
PHILADELPHIA – The surviving spouse of a locomotive repairman for Conrail and CSX Transportation claims those companies did not abide by both the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA) and Locomotive Inspection Act (LIA), by not protecting her deceased husband from harmful substances. -
Lawsuit: Man's exposure to dangerous substances when working for Conrail led to his death from lung cancer
PHILADELPHIA – The widow of an inspection and repair employee for Conrail alleges the company violated the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA) by exposing her late husband to several toxic substances and causing him to develop fatal lung cancer, which took his life in just four months. -
Third Circuit panel sends class action suit filed against home security company back to District Court
PHILADELPHIA – A class action lawsuit initiated against a Warrendale home security company and which invoked the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law, has been remanded to its court of origin by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. -
Philadelphia federal court now hearing case of Va. airplane crash that claimed life of student pilot
PHILADELPHIA – A strict liability lawsuit connected to a fatal airplane crash which claimed the life a student pilot in Virginia will now be heard in a Pennsylvania federal court, per a recent removal. -
Former rail electrician's FELA lawsuit transferred to Blair County Court of Common Pleas
PHILADELPHIA – A lawsuit filed by a former railroad electrician who sued his former employers for allegedly placing him in an unsafe work environment that later led him to develop kidney cancer, has been transferred to Blair County. -
Blank Rome pursuing $100K of allegedly unpaid legal fees from Bryn Mawr coffee company
PHILADELPHIA – Law firm Blank Rome is pursuing litigation against a Bryn Mawr coffee company that it says breached a settlement agreement over unpaid legal fees and has refused to rectify it. -
U.S. Supreme Court denies Pennsylvania GOP's request to consider congressional redistricting
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court has an answer for Pennsylvania Republicans who wanted the judiciary to examine the constitutionality of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s decision to redraw its congressional districting map: “No.” -
Senate President Scarnati vows to oppose Supreme Court's congressional redistricting order
HARRISBURG – State Senate President Joseph Scarnati, believes the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania unconstitutionally usurped authority from the Legislature in its recent orders to re-draw the state’s map of 18 congressional districts – and therefore, says he won’t comply with them. -
Meat mixer manufacturers deny injured plaintiff's claims, file cross-claims against one another
Meat mixer manufacturers deny injured plaintiff's claims, file cross-claims against one another -
U.S. government ordered to pay half of Temple University Hospital's $8 million birth injury lawsuit settlement
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. government is responsible for half the cost of an $8 million settlement in a birth injury lawsuit involving Temple University Hospital, says a federal judge.