PHILADELPHIA – In adding to a schism among the country’s federal appellate courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Thursday that the U.S. government requires judicial approval to dismiss a whistleblower’s health care fraud case, brought on its behalf.
MEDIA – Three defendants deny liability for injuries a Ridley Park woman suffered, when medical professionals allegedly failed to identify and diagnose her perforated ulcer and bowel necrosis, leading her to suffer permanent damage to her digestive tract.
MEDIA – A Delaware County woman says that negligence on the part of a host of medical professionals in the Crozer Health Care System led to her late husband’s cancer being missed in examinations, a disease he later passed away from.
HARRISBURG – Lebanon County and one of its officials have denied responsibility for a chain of events that led to the death of a 12-year-old boy from an alleged long pattern of child abuse, and which is now the subject of a wrongful death lawsuit.
WASHINGTON – The Federal Trade Commission has announced a new initiative to penalize for-profit colleges and universities for making misleading claims about their graduates’ job placement and earning prospects with sizable sanctions - leading to concerns from the industry that no actual findings of wrongdoing have been alleged.
HARRISBURG – One year after the death of a 12 year-old boy from an alleged long-standing pattern of child abuse, the chain of events which led to that event has become the crux of a wrongful death lawsuit now housed in a Pennsylvania federal court.
MEDIA – A trio of medical professionals deny that they failed to identify and diagnose a plaintiff’s perforated ulcer and bowel necrosis, which later led her to suffer permanent damage to her digestive tract.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for two individuals who were said to have provided a series of text messages between a Pittsburgh man and a young rowing club student painting him as an illicit sexual predator and causing him to lose a job opportunity, have filed preliminary objections which attempt to call into doubt the veracity of the subsequent lawsuit’s defamation allegations.
PITTSBURGH – Litigation from two college students who say that social media app Snapchat was designed to protect perpetrators using it to harass innocent people will now be heard in a California federal court.
PHILADELPHIA – A group of Bucks County parents to children with disabilities have brought a federal court lawsuit to ensure that the Central Bucks School District provides reasonable accommodations to disabled students by implementing a COVID-19 health and safety plan aligned with current federal, state and local guidance.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia woman’s lawsuit which accused the Vesper Dayclub in Northern Liberties of discriminating through its membership application process against prospective Black members has been settled.
MEDIA – A wrongful death lawsuit accuses a number of Delaware County health entities of improper care, in the case of a pregnant woman who was given an epidural injection to assist in the birthing process, but which instead caused fatal injuries.
MEDIA – Parents who lost their baby in utero while one of the plaintiffs was 29 weeks pregnant claim that Crozer medical entities did not ensure the health of the fetus, even after the mother-to-be survived a serious car accident.
MEDIA – A Bucks County woman has filed a medical malpractice suit against a trio of entities affiliated with the Crozer Health System, after alleging that they did not properly observe her daughter upon admission and as a result, caused her to die of a pulmonary embolism.
PHILADELPHIA – The National Football League announced it will stop a practice known as “race-norming” – which operated under the assumption that Black players began their football careers with decreased cognitive function as compared to white colleagues – in its handling of the billion-dollar settlement program of brain injury claims brought by former NFL players, and examine past determinations for examples of racial bias.
SCRANTON – The owner and sales manager of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealership in Poland have both denied that they defamed a former employee after he immigrated to the United States and asserted that they are not subject to the jurisdiction of U.S. courts.
SCRANTON – A local physician and nurse practitioner are seeking to strike both the prospect of punitive damages and certain negligence allegations, from a lawsuit brought by the estate of a Carbondale woman who died from cardiac arrest two years ago.
PHILADELPHIA – A panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has affirmed the ruling of a lower federal court, which stated that a pair of professional malpractice cases were properly dismissed due to their not containing certificates of merit.
MEDIA – A Ridley Park woman claims that a host of medical professionals failed to identify and diagnose her perforated ulcer and bowel necrosis, leading her to suffer permanent damage to her digestive tract.
The following cases categorized as "securities/commodities" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on April 21. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
