The following cases categorized as "product liability" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Jan. 14. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
PHILADELPHIA – A lawsuit brought in a Philadelphia court says negligence on the part of Penn State University and Bright Horizons, the nation’s largest child care provider, led to alleged repeat incidents of molestation against a five year-old child by a daycare center’s former Assistant Director.
CHARLESTON, S.C. – A Philadelphia woman’s lawsuit against a number of corporations including 3M, and which contains claims that exposure to carcinogenic chemicals found in local drinking water led to her husband’s death, is now being heard in a South Carolina federal court as part of a multi-district litigation.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Erie Insurance Exchange and Mesa Wood Ltd. against Lowe's Home Centers LLC on Jan. 14.
PHILADELPHIA – After a Philadelphia jury rendered a staggering $8 billion punitive damages verdict at the end of a recent trial surrounding anti-psychotic drug Risperdal in October, the judge who presided over the trial reduced the verdict to $6.8 million on Friday.
The Delaware County Court of Common Pleas reported the following activities in the suit brought by Department of Labor & Industry to the Use of the Unemployment Compensation Fund against The Joshua Tree Preschool & Early Learning Center on Jan. 15.
The following cases categorized as "civil - professional liability action - professional liability action: other" were on the docket in the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas on Jan. 4. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
PHILADELPHIA – Survival and wrongful death litigation between the mother of a young man who drowned in a fitness center swimming pool in the Germantown section of Philadelphia in the summer of 2018 and the center itself was recently settled prior to trial.
The following cases categorized as "civil nr - judgment - mdj transfer" were on the docket in the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas on Jan. 3. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "civil - professional liability action - professional liability action: other" were on the docket in the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas on Jan. 2. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "civil - tort - premises liability" were on the docket in the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas on Jan. 2. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The Delaware County Court of Common Pleas reported the following activities in the suit brought by Linda Eldridge against Broomall LP, Broomall Operating Company, LP, Broomall Operating GP, Broomall Rehabilation and Nursing Center and Proto Equity Holdings, LLC on Jan. 4.
PITTSBURGH – The Clean Air Council is engaged in litigation with U.S. Steel for continually failing to report releases of hundreds of thousands of pounds of hydrogen sulfide, benzene, and other hazardous pollutants into the air from three of its Mon Valley Works plants.
The Delaware County Court of Common Pleas reported the following activities in the suit brought by Keystone Quality Transport Company against Pembrooke Health and Rehabilitation Center, RSC Consolidated Holdings, LLC and Reliant Pembrooke, LLC on Jan. 3.
