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PITTSBURGH – The George Junior Republic rehabilitation and treatment center has argued that a man accusing its staff of sexually abusing him when he was just 16 years old, has not properly or sufficiently pled his claims under the law.
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PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania woman who claimed that the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center at McKeesport was negligent in its care of her late father, after he suffered a pair of heart attacks which ultimately claimed his life, now adds that the hospital system has not responded to her discovery requests.
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PHILADELPHIA – Marina District Development Company argues that a woman who slipped on the floor of the Borgata casino in Atlantic City, N.J. contributed to her injuries through her own negligence.
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WILLIAMSPORT – A federal judge has sustained discovery objections from Geisinger Health and ordered plaintiffs to identify the job categories that fall within the definition of “Healthcare Workers” – in a class action lawsuit against the company and Evangelical Community Hospital, which claimed the Pennsylvania hospitals engaged in a secret “no-poach agreement” that suppressed professional mobility and salaries in Central Pennsylvania.
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PHILADELPHIA – An East Bradford Township public works official is seeking to eliminate allegations that he was not truthful in a deposition given in an underlying action, in his own suit alleging he was fired for reporting dangerous conditions relating to decaying tree limbs in the municipality.
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PITTSBURGH – A state court judge has sustained preliminary objections brought by one bar defendant pertaining to the concept of due standard care, in litigation surrounding a drunk driving accident that killed the plaintiff’s 23-year-old daughter.
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PITTSBURGH – Four members of a non-profit organization looking to increase civic engagement in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania who brought litigation, after they claimed the group violated its by-laws through not scheduling its annual meeting to vote on new members of the Board of Directors, have now discontinued their case.
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PHILADELPHIA – Litigation between a Philadelphia couple and a Bensalem fitness facility, which claimed that the gym was negligent in maintaining the safety of its treadmill machines and as a result the wife-plaintiff fell and suffered severe injuries, has resulted in an arbitration award.
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PITTSBURGH – Parties involved in litigation connected to allegedly inadequate representation of a Pennsylvania contractor, one who lost $1 million in an underlying bankruptcy action, are continuing to contest a motion for judgment on the pleadings to potentially decide the case.
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PITTSBURGH – A proprietor defendant named under Dram Shop liability, in a wrongful death case surrounding a drunk driving accident which killed the plaintiff’s 23-year-old daughter, denies that she overserved the intoxicated driver with alcohol her prior to the crash.
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PITTSBURGH – Parties involved in litigation connected to allegedly inadequate representation of a Pennsylvania contractor, one who lost $1 million in an underlying bankruptcy action, are currently battling over a motion for judgment on the pleadings to potentially decide the case.
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HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has filed a brief to dismiss litigation from a Georgia couple who alleged that a state-maintained guardrail safety system along Interstate 81 failed to decelerate their vehicle, when the vehicle made contact with the guardrail and it speared through the vehicle to injure its driver.
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PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has remanded to state court the case of a Doylestown couple who alleged that Costco is liable for severe bodily injuries suffered by the wife-plaintiff while shopping in the company’s store in North Wales.
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PHILADELPHIA – A Doylestown couple who alleged that Costco is liable for severe bodily injuries suffered by the wife-plaintiff while shopping in the company’s store in North Wales, have agreed with the retailer to a limitation on damages.
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PITTSBURGH – A New York City attorney has motioned for judgment on the pleadings in response to allegations that he and his firm provided inadequate representation to a former client, a Pennsylvania contractor who lost $1 million in an underlying bankruptcy action.
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PITTSBURGH – A Coraopolis couple have discontinued their case with both city and state authorities regarding the death of their son, who was killed when a sidewalk railing he was next to unexpectedly gave way.
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PHILADELPHIA – A Pennsylvania state trooper has denied that he illegally subjected a Chester County man to detainment, search, arrest and a blood test for DUI without probable cause.
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SCRANTON – A federal judge has denied the issuance of a default judgment in consolidated litigation brought by a therapist at a Pennsylvania juvenile detention and rehabilitation facility, who claimed he faced racial discrimination and retaliation for reporting physical and mental abuse at the facility.
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PITTSBURGH – The City of Pittsburgh and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have now made their second attempt to dismiss litigation from AT&T, which asserted that the defendants violated the Telecommunications Act of 1996 by their limiting of the company’s ability to place wireless facilities on telephone poles in the City’s rights-of-way.
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HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has motioned to dismiss litigation from a Georgia couple who alleged that a state-maintained guardrail safety system along Interstate 81 failed to decelerate their vehicle, when the vehicle made contact with the guardrail and it speared through the vehicle to injure its driver.
