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.
MEDIA – The daughters of a Delaware County nursing home resident contend that she was improperly cared for by the staff of the facility where she was living and that same level of sub-standard care is what directly caused her death, refuting assertions from the facility that it was not responsible for her passing.
MEDIA – A Drexel Hill plaintiff contends that an urgent care facility in Havertown negligently failed to diagnose a woman’s pneumonia, later causing her to die of the condition in December 2019.
HARRISBURG – The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania recently ruled that legal action to prohibit electronic voting machines from being used in Northampton County and other Pennsylvania counties may proceed.
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.
PHILADELPHIA – A local woman who suffered severe leg injuries in a fall over a metal barrier at Washington Square Park more than two years ago argues that the U.S. government’s attempt to dismiss her litigation should be disregarded, based on the fact that the allegations do not fall under the discretionary function exception.
LANCASTER – Plaintiff counsel have agreed to dismiss their claims for recklessness and punitive damages against one defendant named in a negligence lawsuit, centered on a security system installer’s electrocution at a Lancaster hotel.
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.
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania found that a Pittsburgh ordinance which forbid landlords from denying rental units to tenants who use federal housing vouchers was not legal under the state’s Pennsylvania Human Relations Act and thus, was unconstitutional to business.
PITTSBURGH – A class action lawsuit brought on behalf of workers at Shell Oil Company alleges that the employees in question did not receive time-and-a-half compensation when they worked overtime hours.
ALLENTOWN – A Bethlehem hospital has filed a motion for summary judgment, seeking to dismiss litigation alleging that a local woman died from internal bleeding resulting from a surgery at the very same hospital.
HARRISBURG – A local Chinese restaurant owner has settled claims against the Borough of Middletown, closing litigation which asserted that the Borough sought to prevent the plaintiff from opening and conducting daily business operations.
JOHNSTOWN – The manufacturer of a device created to assist babies in sleeping has denied allegations from an Altoona couple that the defective machine caused the death of their three-month-old son from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
HARRISBURG – A panel of judges from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a Philadelphia trial court did not abuse its discretion when it included a missing witness instruction, in a charge made to a jury deciding an injury suit involving an injured mailman who fell while making delivery.
MEDIA – After the parents of a 13-year-old child who drowned at Folcroft Swim Club two years ago filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the facility, its insurance carrier has now filed additional litigation against both the club and the plaintiffs in the underlying wrongful death case.
PHILADELPHIA – A Darby Township police officer has refuted accusations that he violated the constitutional rights of a Delaware County man by conducting an illegal traffic stop and search and seizure upon the plaintiff’s vehicle.
PITTSBURGH – Pine-Richland School District and three of its officials deny that they defamed its now former high school football head coach with false claims that he condoned hazing and bullying in the school’s football program.
PHILADELPHIA – Valley Forge Military Academy & College denies a lawsuit’s allegations that it engaged in racial discrimination towards one of its cadets or that it disciplined Black cadets more severely than others at the institution.
