HARRISBURG – A Black-owned EMS ambulance company in Western Pennsylvania has voluntarily dismissed its own litigation against a host of medical professionals and health care companies, which alleged it faced a conspiracy of racial discrimination on the part of the defendants.
ALLENTOWN – Authorities in the Owen J. Roberts School District have denied allegations that they failed to protect a Chester Springs woman from being molested by her philosophy teacher when she was a high school student in 2020.
SCRANTON – Due to the death of a plaintiff, one representing the estate of a Carbondale woman who passed away from cardiac arrest three years ago while in the care of Geisinger Medical Center, another individual has been substituted to stand in for the litigation.
HARRISBURG – The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has affirmed the revocation of a medical license for a nephrologist found to have made numerous unwanted sexual advances toward nurses and medical support staff.
WILLIAMSPORT – A former All-American member of Penn State University’s women’s fencing team has filed Title IX litigation against her former head coach, alleging she was subjected to physical, psychological and verbal abuse which derailed her hopes to become a nationally renowned Olympic fencer.
PHILADELPHIA – A Northeast Philadelphia church’s lawsuit contending that its insurance carrier committed breach of contract by failing to cover its losses of water damage sustained when a drain line failed, is returning to its court of origin.
PHILADELPHIA — An Amtrak worker claims he faced intimidation and bullying from a supervisor after suffering an on the job injury. Matthew Daley filed a complaint March 23 in the U.S.
PHILADELPHIA – A Missouri law firm who filed litigation to pursue more than $3.5 million in outstanding legal bills from a half-dozen defendants spread across the United States and Puerto Rico has settled its case.
PHILADELPHIA – A Northeast Philadelphia church contends that its insurance carrier has committed breach of contract, by failing to cover its losses of water damage sustained when a drain line failed.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man who was awarded $15,000 by a Pittsburgh jury after he sued his former employer, a fireworks company, for allegedly failing to accommodate his condition of claustrophobia, has now been awarded more than $258,000 in attorney’s fees and costs.
PHILADELPHIA – In a Missouri law firm’s amended complaint where it is pursuing more than $3.5 million in outstanding legal bills from a half-dozen defendants spread across the United States and Puerto Rico, one of those defendants argues she can’t be connected to any outstanding costs.
PHILADELPHIA – A slip-and-fall injury suit against Federal Express which has attracted the attention of a leading organization for trial lawyers in Pennsylvania, is headed for trial this June.
PHILADELPHIA – A Missouri law firm seeks to file an amended complaint in an action where it is pursuing more than $3.5 million in outstanding legal bills from a half-dozen defendants spread across the United States and Puerto Rico, and to further introduce exhibits it says will help prove its case, under seal.
HARRISBURG – In a ruling it admitted may seem “harsh," the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided that the father of a man who died from a fentanyl overdose cannot sue the pharmacy which provided him the drug, since the decedent committed a crime by possessing and using it.
PITTSBURGH – A housing community owner who alleged that its neighbor’s construction caused nearly $250,000 in severe damage to retaining walls and surrounding property and wants a default judgment in that same amount, denies the answering material from two of the case’s defendants.
PHILADELPHIA – Two defendants among a group accused of $3.5 million in non-payment of legal bills to a Missouri law firm deny that they committed any such offense, and that the firm never represented them in any relevant litigation.
PITTSBURGH – A housing community owner who alleged that its neighbor’s construction caused nearly $250,000 in severe damage to retaining walls and surrounding property, now seeks a default judgment in that same amount against one of the defendants.
