Patricia M.Smith claims severe injuries due to alleged medical negligence by St.Clair Hospital staff leading up to a hemorrhagic stroke shortly after discharge.
Her husband William seeks damages too for loss of companionship.
PITTSBURGH – A local middle school student alleges that negligent placement of a metal bleacher bench by the Upper St. Clair School District, resulted in his suffering a series of severe leg injuries when he collided with that same bench.
PITTSBURGH – A local couple allege that the wife-plaintiff developed breast cancer after not being informed that a surgical scaffold used in her 2015 breast augmentation surgery was the subject of an FDA recall, 10 days after said surgery.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has applied joinder to litigation brought by a Butler probation officer who alleged he was discriminated against by his superiors for requesting time off due to stress and anxiety, by approving the Butler County Court of Common Pleas to be listed as an additional defendant.
PITTSBURGH – One defendant named in a wrongful death lawsuit, filed after the death of a man trapped underground during a cave-in while digging a trench to replace a sewer line in North Strabane Township, has been dismissed from the case.
PITTSBURGH — A bicyclist claims Columbia Gas and its contractor failed to fix a protrusion in the roadway caused by an underground gas line which caused her to suffer injuries. Margaret M.
PITTSBURGH – A Canonsburg couple say their child was born with severe bodily impairments after the delivery staff at St. Clair Hospital performed negligently during childbirth in September 2017.
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh man and his co-plaintiff refutes denials from his former employer and reiterate claims that he was physically assaulted by his employer, in a dispute over Payroll Protection Program funds that supposedly remained in his possession.
PITTSBURGH – Butler County seeks to apply joinder to litigation brought by a Butler probation officer who alleged he was discriminated against by his superiors for requesting time off due to stress and anxiety, by joining the Butler County Court of Common Pleas as an additional defendant.
PITTSBURGH — The estate of a woman who was killed by a falling tree limb while on a hiking trail in the Township of Upper St. Clair is claiming wrongful death. William G.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for a Cranberry Township woman who allegedly nixed a $1 million bequest from her deceased lover to one of his best friends, rejects what she sees as a series of legally insufficient claims lodged in the second version of the complaint.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for a Cranberry Township woman who allegedly nixed a $1 million bequest from her deceased lover to one of his best friends, now argues that the plaintiff’s tortious interference claims against her are legally insufficient.
WASHINGTON – According to the latest annual report of “Judicial Hellholes” released today by the American Tort Reform Association, Pennsylvania courts have garnered the No. 4 ranking for jurisdictions considered unfriendly to businesses – falling three places from the top spot on the report, where they had been listed for the preceding two years.
PITTSBURGH – An Upper St. Clair man alleges that he was to be the recipient of a $1 million bequest from a close friend of his prior to his death, only to have the decedent’s significant other cancel the gift.
PITTSBURGH – One defendant has denied claims of liability in a lawsuit brought by a nail salon’s former employee, an ex-employee who claimed he was physically assaulted by one of the defendants over Payroll Protection Program funds that allegedly remained in his possession.
PITTSBURGH – Butler County counters litigation brought by a Butler probation officer who alleged he was discriminated against by his superiors for requesting time off due to stress and anxiety, by arguing that the officer’s version of events are mistaken and that his claims are baseless.
PITTSBURGH — A couple allege a radiologist missed a kidney stone on the husband's imaging, which caused him to suffer an infection and other health issues.
PITTSBURGH – One defendant named in a wrongful death lawsuit, filed after the death of a man trapped underground during a cave-in while digging a trench to replace a sewer line in North Strabane Township, has brought preliminary objections that a charge of intentional infliction of emotional distress levied against him is improper.
PITTSBURGH – A Butler probation officer says that he was discriminated against by his superiors when he sought to take leave under the Family Medical Leave Act, for work-related stress and anxiety that he was suffering.
PITTSBURGH – One defendant named in a wrongful death lawsuit, filed after the death of a man trapped underground during a cave-in while digging a trench to replace a sewer line in North Strabane Township, has brought preliminary objections arguing two of its counts should be thrown out for failure to follow the rule of law.
