HARRISBURG – The Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently upheld a jury verdict of $640,000 in favor of a woman who sustained serious ankle and back injuries when she fell on an uncleared portion of snow while picking up her grandson from his day care center.
HARRISBURG - A woman who filed a loss of consortium lawsuit shortly after her husband died amid divorce proceedings was ordered to submit privileged documents to Wilkes-Barre Hospital Company LLC.
HARRISBURG -- The Superior Court of Pennsylvania affirmed July 19 a jury's verdict against Wilkes-Barre Hospital Company LLC in a medical malpractice lawsuit.
WILKES-BARRE – A former Wilkes-Barre police officer has been sued by three Luzerne County women in the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County over allegations of sexual misconduct.
HARRISBURG – Where it had first been seen as a surprise that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania was considering reversing course on where medical malpractice lawsuits can be filed, it was recently revealed just where the inspiration to reconsider the policy came from.
The shareholders at Hourigan, Kluger & Quinn, PC (HKQ Law) are pleased to announce the addition of Attorney Ryan M. Molitoris to their Personal Injury Team.
HARRISBURG – Venue guidelines governing medical malpractice litigation statewide which were brought into law through 2002’s Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (MCARE) Act may be abandoned by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Civil Procedural Rules Committee.
Attorney Nicole M. Santo, HKQ Law, Kingston, PA has been appointed to the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, Harrisburg, PA.
William and Carolyn Hughes brought a claim of medical negligence in Lackawanna County Court against Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, Dr. Lori DelGaudio, and Dr. Teresa Baseski.
WILKES-BARRE — Wells Fargo Bank NA is suing the Law Office of EJ Kaushas and Edward J. Kaushas, citing alleged breach of contract, breach of warranty and fraud.
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on July 24, 2018, United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced William Waring and Tanay Jones, both of Bronx, New York, for conspiring to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, and fentanyl. Waring, age 27, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and four years of supervised release following that sentence of imprisonment.
SCRANTON — A New Jersey-based clothing distributor is defending itself against a counter-claim by JC Penney over who is liable for burns suffered by a Luzerne County woman when the nightshirt she was wearing caught fire in 2015.
SCRANTON – The wrongful termination case of Luzerne County’s former Human Resources Director, whose federal causes of action were dismissed by a federal judge in March and failed to be reconsidered in May, will now have its state law-based charges heard in a Lackawanna County court.
SCRANTON – A law firm facing a $619 million legal malpractice lawsuit in Pennsylvania federal court wants the case dismissed for failure to state a claim and other causes or alternatively, transferred to federal court in New York.
