PHILADELPHIA – The parents of a student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business who committed suicide six years ago have settled wrongful death litigation with the school, in a suit which charged it ignored the decedent’s requests for mental health counseling and assistance.
PHILADELPHIA – A Florida man has filed a lawsuit seeking to redress a grievance surrounding the alleged inequitable distribution of assets from his mother’s will to himself and his two siblings, one of whom is a defendant.
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County officials have denied claims from a Seattle-based, non-denominational church that alleged those officials are misusing a Pennsylvania law to avoid solemnizing legal marriages in the Commonwealth.
ALLENTOWN – A settlement is brewing between strip club owners in five states, including Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Small Business Administration, over claims that the SBA’s moral judgment about their businesses violated their constitutional rights and caused them to be deprived of receiving loans issued to restaurant and nightlife owners adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
PHILADELPHIA – An African-American and Muslim contractor who claimed he was framed for materials theft by a racist employee of a business he was working at and arrested by members of the Philadelphia Police Department, despite there being no evidence he had committed any crime, has settled his case.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has granted in part, denied in part and partially held in abeyance a motion for summary judgment filed by two Pittsburgh police officers, in a lawsuit brought by a woman who alleged she was unlawfully arrested because she didn’t support former President Donald Trump.
PITTSBURGH – An Aldi shopper who claimed that an accumulated, sticky substance on the floor of a store located in Penn Hills was the cause of an injurious fall she sustained, has denied that she was contributorily negligent.
PHILADELPHIA – A corrections officer who claimed that his First Amendment rights were violated when he was disciplined for a Facebook post calling for a rally in response to payroll policy breaches, has settled with the City of Philadelphia.
PITTSBURGH – An Ohio woman and her mother have filed wrongful death litigation against a Western Pennsylvania healthcare operation and the driver of a van who allegedly failed to secure a decedent’s wheelchair while in transit and drove recklessly, leading the man to topple over and die from his resultant injuries.
PHILADELPHIA – Counsel for an ex-constituent services worker for state Sen. Anthony Williams who claims she was fired before Christmas in 2018 and after contracting breast cancer, has lodged objections to what they feel are defense counsel’s maneuvers to drag out the case.
PHILADELPHIA – When it reconvenes this week, members of the Philadelphia-based American Law Institute are expected to discuss and further revise the group’s proposed guidelines on the topic of medical monitoring, a practice which critics say may expand damage recoveries in tort cases.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania woman claims that a local contractor’s negligence in piercing an underground gas main and failing to report the subsequent leak led to the death of her mother from exposure to the gas.
MEDIA – A Delaware County woman who has now twice alleged 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, has been granted the requested consolidation of both of her cases.
PITTSBURGH – A New York City attorney facing allegations of providing inadequate representation to former client and Pennsylvania contractor who lost $1 million in an underlying bankruptcy action has removed the case to federal court.
PITTSBURGH – Dollar Tree denied the allegations of a Pittsburgh woman claiming that her special needs daughter was disfigured on the back of her head by an elastic headband she had purchased at one of its stores.
ALLENTOWN – Sherwin-Williams wants a federal judge to sanction counsel for an Easton couple for the alleged dissemination of its confidential trade secrets, in the couple’s lawsuit resulting from their use of one of the company’s deck stainers, which supposedly caused a fire on their property.
ALLENTOWN – A New Jersey woman alleges a host of bodily injuries when she slipped and fell on a sidewalk patch of ice, in walking to her rented room at a local Red Roof Inn one year ago.
PHILADELPHIA – A pair of Philadelphia Fire Department EMT’s are seeking to dismiss a willful misconduct claim, from the lawsuit brought by the estate of a Massachusetts man who died after suffering an opiate overdose.
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