SCRANTON – Health care defendants accused of failing to prevent an alleged assault on a licensed practical nurse, an act committed by a man with a supposed history of violent behavior towards his colleagues, want all requests for punitive damages removed from the case.
SCRANTON – Moses Taylor Hospital has denied all liability in a lawsuit it faces from the parent of a minor girl who suffered a case of appendicitis, due to alleged negligence on its part and that of the initial physician that she and her family consulted with.
MEDIA – In litigation from a Delaware County woman against her former doctor, a pharmacist and their pharmacy – which alleged their reckless negligence of prescribing large amounts of opioid medication led to the death of her husband – plaintiff counsel is seeking documents which detail the volume of opioids prescribed to customers over a five-year period.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia federal court has remanded Cheltenham Township’s lawsuit to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars it says it paid to a planning, engineering and architecture firm, one which allegedly overbilled its clients, to the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas.
SCRANTON – Moses Taylor Hospital has reached a stipulation in lieu of preliminary objections which will reduce damages in a lawsuit with the parent of a minor girl who suffered a case of appendicitis, due to the alleged negligence of a Scranton hospital and the initial physician that she and her family consulted with.
PHILADELPHIA – Per a state Attorney General’s Office investigation, Cheltenham Township is seeking to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars it says it paid to a planning, engineering and architecture firm, one which allegedly overbilled its clients.
MEDIA – Trinity Health Corporation has filed preliminary objections charging that allegations of professional medical negligence levied by a Pennsylvania woman are so vague that it does not give them the opportunity to properly defend against them.
MEDIA – In a lawsuit from a Delaware County woman against her former doctor, a pharmacist and their pharmacy - which alleged their reckless negligence of prescribing large amounts of opioid medication led to the death of her husband - the defendants have had their preliminary objections largely overruled.
PHILADELPHIA – Delaware County and a local senior care facility are appealing the defeat of their dismissal motion in a wrongful death lawsuit, filed by the surviving children of a man who died from COVID-19 while under the facility’s care, to a Washington, D.C. federal appellate court.
PHILADELPHIA – A Montgomery County man has settled claims that he was allegedly defrauded after entering into a home equity loan transaction totaling more than $200,000 with a Philadelphia investment firm.
PHILADELPHIA – Counsel for an associate at a drug treatment center stands by claims that their client’s employer and its personnel violated public policy by retaliating against him for exercising his rights and making a good faith report of wrongdoing and waste, refuting the center’s motion to dismiss the case.
PHILADELPHIA – A drug treatment center and its personnel counter a lawsuit from one of its associates, alleging he was retaliated against for exercising his rights and making a good faith report of wrongdoing and waste, by arguing that its allegations fail to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.
SCRANTON — A couple are claiming negligence against Split Rock Resort in Lake Harmony after the wife slipped and hit her head on a concrete wall while entering the restroom.
MEDIA – A former doctor is seeking to strike punitive damages and allegedly scandalous and impertinent material from litigation brought by a Delaware County woman against her, a pharmacist and their pharmacy, contending their reckless negligence of prescribing large amounts of opioid medication led to the death of her husband.
MEDIA – A Delaware County woman alleges that a local hospital and other medical entities are responsible for professional medical negligence, failing to be aware that her daughter was at risk for a drug overdose and leading to her death in the process.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia investment firm and others accused of defrauding a Montgomery County man in a home equity loan transaction totaling more than $200,000, have had a default judgment entered against them.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man has reiterated claims that his Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma is the result of many years of exposure to toxic substances in his work duties for the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad.
MEDIA – Kindred Healthcare is attempting to have a lawsuit filed by an Upper Darby woman against it and a group of its physical therapists, after one of the plaintiffs was seriously injured during a rehabilitation session after leg amputation surgery, redirected to alternative dispute resolution.
SCRANTON – A local health care and hospital system alleges its lack of involvement in the events at issue should dismiss it from a lawsuit, where one of the plaintiffs was not timely diagnosed with Stage III pancreatic cancer.