PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania couple have settled their claims against an Illinois-based farmers’ market chain, after one of the plaintiffs struck a raised bumper and fell while shopping in a local store owned by the defendant.
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 – A former employee for East Bradford Township’s Public Works Department alleges he was retaliated against and fired when he reported dangerous conditions relating to decaying tree limbs in the municipality.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has denied a trio of motions for summary judgment from the parent companies of TGI Friday’s and Delta Airlines, named in litigation brought by a sky marshal who was allegedly sexually assaulted by an intoxicated passenger on her flight from Pittsburgh to Atlanta in 2018.
SCRANTON – A quintet of anonymous parents to disabled and medically vulnerable children has sued Delaware Valley School District and its School Board, over their decision to permit parent-backed student exemptions to the state’s mask mandate for Pennsylvania schools.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has green-lighted enforcement of a subpoena to produce a radiologist’s report outlining a toddler’s quality of medical care, in a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by the parents of that same child, who underwent emergency surgery to remove one of his testicles.
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, is now petitioning for a further award of more than $283,000 in attorney’s fees and costs.
PITTSBURGH – Target Corporation’s attempt to dismiss punitive damages from litigation brought by the mother of a two-year-old girl burned by an allegedly faulty Instant Pot pressure cooking device was not successful, per a federal judge’s ruling.
PITTSBURGH – A nursing company and its owner deny liability for allegedly causing $250,000 in severe damage to retaining walls and surrounding property belonging to its neighbor, the owner of a residential housing community.
HARRISBURG – A Hershey woman alleges that her comments to the Derry Township School Board on the relative dearth of mental health services provided to students there led to the District retaliating against her and canceling the contract between the plaintiff’s business and the District.
PHILADELPHIA – A New Jersey elevator manufacturer argues that it was not responsible for injuries that a Philadelphia woman says she suffered when her skirt became caught in the escalator of a Macy’s mall store in Bucks County.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has dismissed without prejudice litigation from the parents of a Springfield High School senior student who committed suicide last year, a lawsuit which alleged that both the district and school personnel’s failure to notify them of the bullying their son endured, prevented them from being able to stop his untimely death.
PITTSBURGH – A state court judge has granted a protective motion for confidentiality in the case of a substitute teacher who sued Deer Lakes School District, after the District learned he was once arrested in 1956 and allegedly denied him work in their schools.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has remanded litigation brought by a senior citizen to state court, a case which alleges the bank failed to protect her and her sizable accounts from fraud and resulted in her losing millions of dollars to con artists.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man has been 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.
PHILADELPHIA – Delaware County has filed for summary judgment in a case brought forward by a former county attorney of more than 40 years who returned to his duties as a public defender after suffering a stroke, and alleged he was fired from his role this year due to his age and disability.
PHILADELPHIA – Springfield School District and three of its officials have denied that a lawsuit claiming they failed to notify a student’s parents that he was being bullied before he later committed suicide last year has any factual basis.
PITTSBURGH – Westmoreland County and its Corrections Commissioner are seeking to throw out litigation from the former warden of the county’s prison, which accused them of harassment and retaliation over his refusal to make the commissioner’s political hires.
