Kent G. Downer has filed a lawsuit against Char House Highrise for the Elderly, Redevelopment Authority of Washington County, and Otis Elevator Company following a terrifying elevator malfunction that left him injured and trapped for over an hour. The case highlights alleged negligence in maintenance and safety protocols at the senior living complex.
PHILADELPHIA – The Greyhound and Flixbus transportation companies seek to disprove allegations that they were responsible for the death of a 32-year-old man from cardiac arrest, while aboard a Greyhound bus bound for Philadelphia two years ago.
PHILADELPHIA – A local jury found for the City of Philadelphia in litigation brought by a former inmate of SCI-Graterford, who claimed local law enforcement officials did not take proper care in transporting him and others who were confined to wheelchairs – leading him to suffer a concussion, chest and spinal injuries.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for a Western Pennsylvania woman who suffered third-degree burns over 70% of her body in a motor vehicle crash over two years ago, has refuted denials of liability from two of the defendants named in the subsequent litigation.
PHILADELPHIA – Trial commences this week in an action where a former inmate of SCI-Graterford says local law enforcement officials did not take proper care in transporting him and others who were confined to wheelchairs, leading him to suffer a concussion, chest and spinal injuries.
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.
PHILADELPHIA – A Canadian arcade game manufacturer says that the owner of the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant chain is instead responsible for injuries suffered by a boy who was crushed by such a game machine at a Philadelphia restaurant.
PHILADELPHIA – An arcade game manufacturer says there is no truth to a lawsuit brought by the mother of a boy who was crushed by such a game machine at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Philadelphia, which argues the device was defective.
PHILADELPHIA – The mother of a boy who was crushed by an arcade game machine at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Philadelphia has filed a lawsuit on his behalf, arguing that the manufacturer of the allegedly defective machine committed negligence.
PHILADELPHIA – A New Jersey elevator manufacturer argues that it was not responsible for injuries that a Philadelphia woman says she suffered when her skirt became caught in the escalator of a Macy’s mall store in Bucks County.
PHILADELPHIA – Just prior to answering claims from nearly 150 plaintiffs suing the City of Philadelphia for alleged excessive force used during peaceful demonstrations on systemic racism and police brutality at 52nd Street and the Vine Street Expressway last year, a federal judge has ordered the City provide a proposed matrix for the plaintiffs’ individual monetary award damages.
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.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge granted summary judgment to an insurance provider in a disability discrimination and wrongful termination action filed by a Delaware County paramedic – who in a separate-but-related lawsuit, alleged he was fired by the City of Philadelphia soon after beginning his employment.
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.
PITTSBURGH – 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, four Ohio plaintiffs are suing the commercial entities they feel are liable for survival and wrongful death.
The following cases categorized as "civil nr - judgment - mdj transfer" cases were on the docket in the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas on Aug. 8. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "civil nr - judgment - mdj transfer" cases were on the docket in the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas on Aug. 7. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
