The following labor-related cases were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Jan. 9. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The U.S. District Court of Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Sheet Metal Workers' Local 19 against M.J. Binder Company LLC on Jan. 9.
PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia-based paratransit services who say the state financially penalized them due to the alleged failure of a human resources firm to file unemployment compensation fund documents have seen their case dismissed.
The following labor-related cases were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Jan. 3. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The U.S. District Court of Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Board of Trustees, Roofers Union Local 30 Combined Health and Welfare Fund against Palomino Roofing Company LLC on Jan. 3.
The U.S. District Court of Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Board of Trustees, Roofers Union Local 30 Combined Health and Welfare Fund against Union Roofing Contractors Inc. on Jan. 3.
HARRISBURG – Business and legal reform groups are calling on the state Supreme Court to uphold a specific application of a law that governs how defendants split the check when a plaintiff verdict comes in - opposing a so-called "carve-out" that would keep the law from applying to asbestos cases..
PHILADELPHIA – A pair of Philadelphia-based paratransit services say a New Jersey human resources firm failed to file unemployment compensation fund documents, leaving them to be financially penalized by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Howard M. Appel, 57, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information with one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.
HARRISBURG – Pending legislation in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives would essentially overrule a 2014 state Supreme Court decision and change asbestos litigation statewide, to plaintiff lawyers' dismay, if it were to pass.
NORRISTOWN – A Montgomery County property management company alleges that a marketing communications firm has failed to vacate its premises after the termination of a lease agreement, and has subsequently sued for breach of contract.
The Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Public Utility Law Section presented its Christianson Award to McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC Chairman David M. Kleppinger on May 24 during the Public Utility Bench Bar Conference at the Hilton Harrisburg.
PHILADELPHIA – A settlement conference will be held next year in litigation between a man who lost two fingers using molder equipment in a manufacturing accident, and the companies he claims are responsible for the traumatic injuries he says he suffered.
LANCASTER – A plaintiff’s lawsuit against a pair of residential building product manufacturers, claiming their defective dehumidifier caused more than $50,000 worth of damages in a property fire, continues after being reinstated by plaintiff counsel four times.
