The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by Gina Sassane, James Sassane, Melissa Palumbo-Sassane and Unitrin Auto and Home Insurance Company against NCC Automated Systems Inc., Travelers Indemnity Company and Travelers Property Casualty Company of America on Jan. 22.
PHILADELPHIA — Delaware County has filed a motion to dismiss a preemptory lawsuit filed by Sherwin-Williams Co. that attempts to block counties around Pennsylvania from pursuing possibly nine-figure litigation over lead paint.
Partner Michael Bertin is the course planner and moderator of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s program titled, “Family Law Practice in Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties.”
PHILADELPHIA – Claims filed against a daycare center for injurious negligence in the case of a man whose daughter broke her arm at that same daycare, have been dismissed without prejudice, per a mutual agreement from all parties concerned.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by Gina Sassane, James Sassane, Melissa Palumbo-Sassane and Unitrin Auto and Home Insurance Company against NCC Automated Systems Inc., Travelers Indemnity Company and Travelers Property Casualty Company of America on Jan. 16.
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.
LANCASTER – Though some Lancaster chemical exposure lawsuits against Armstrong World Industries are nearly a decade old, they are in jeopardy of being dismissed as early as today for failure to prosecute.
PHILADELPHIA – Counsel for defendants listed in an action where a contractor who suffered an electric shock renovating a break room in Home Depot have called his requests for pre-complaint discovery “overly broad” and seek to have a protective order approved to preclude it.
MEDIA – A Delaware County judge has stricken both several allegations and a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress from a lawsuit leveled against a neurologist by a female patient, which charged him with bizarre allegations of sexual harassment.
Montgomery McCracken is pleased to announce Ernest D. Holtzheimer was elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Business Law Section and Treasurer of the Young Lawyers Division (YLD) of the Philadelphia Bar Association and will serve a one-year term (effective January 1, 2019).
PHILADELPHIA – A Conshohocken woman allegedly injured outside a pub in King of Prussia is filing suit to recover costs for her injuries, though debate has ensued about the propriety of the case’s choice of venue.
On November 15, 2018, the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation and Pennsylvania Bar Association honored Senator Stewart Greenleaf for his “remarkable” forty years of public service, including his thirty years of leadership on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Reginald L. Streater, an Associate in Archer’s Haddonfield office, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA - Pennsylvania will be the next battleground in historically hard-fought litigation over lead paint, as private lawyers seeking one-third of possible multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements are teaming with county officials on lawsuits.
PHILADELPHIA – The father of a preschool-aged girl who allegedly fell and fractured her arm at her daycare center has now taken legal action against the center for injurious negligence.
