Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County
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Bath & Body Works faces class action over credit, debit card numbers printed on receipts
PITTSBURGH — Bath & Body Works is facing a class action lawsuit over its alleged printing of more than the last five digits of customers' credit/debit card numbers on its paper receipts. -
Cancer patient secretly filmed by radiology technician when she undressed for exam, files suit against West Penn Hospital
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania married couple alleges that a local hospital system was negligent in employing a radiology technician who used hidden cameras at West Penn Hospital to record more than 50 female patients in states of undress, with one of them being the wife-plaintiff. -
Pittsburgh siding company counters that co-defendants are responsible for Maryland contractor's spinal injuries
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh siding company denies allegations that a contractor’s severe spinal fractures suffered two years ago are the result of its own negligence, instead assigning that blame to its fellow co-defendants. -
Lawsuit: Ross Dress is selling dangerous stools
PITTSBURGH — A mother is claiming her daughter was injured by a razor sharp edge on a stool purchased at Ross Dress For Less. -
Columbia Gas faces suit over 2019 line explosion in Washington County
PITTSBURGH — A family is suing Columbia Gas after it allegedly experienced psychological trauma and property damage when a gas line exploded in their Washington County neighborhood. -
Lawsuit alleges forklift crushed man's foot
PITTSBURGH — A man who says he suffered a crush injury to his foot after being run over by a forklift at a wholesale distributor business is alleging negligence. -
Lawsuit: Bricklayer plaintiff's full-body injuries sustained at Clairton plant, are the result of U.S. Steel's negligence
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania couple alleges that the husband-plaintiff suffered a series of bodily injuries while working on the job at the U.S. Steel plant in Clairton, and that the company was responsible for the circumstances which caused those same injuries. -
Gateway Grill settles case with ex-server accused of defaming the restaurant on Facebook
PITTSBURGH – A mutual consent order of permanent injunction has ended defamation litigation from a Pittsburgh restaurant against one of its former servers, who had accused the business of multiple forms of wrongdoing on social media and elsewhere. -
Just before CDC's eviction moratorium expires, landlord group seeks to stay PHRC action until Pittsburgh suit concludes
PITTSBURGH – On the eve of the Center for Disease Control’s eviction moratorium order’s expiration, a landlord advocacy group is seeking an injunction to stay any formal action related to the City of Pittsburgh’s temporary eviction measure enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic – until its pending lawsuit against both the City and its City Council is resolved. -
Lawyer, sick of neighbors, sues their landlord
PITTSBURGH — An attorney who owns property in Pittsburgh is alleging his neighbor is an "absentee landlord" who neglects her property and has nuisance tenants. John Renda filed a complaint in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County against Jun Minhee. Renda owns a residence on Maple Heights Court in Pittsburgh, according to his complaint. -
Man sues vape shop after allegedly suffering burns from exploding lithium batteries
PITTSBURGH — A man is suing a Vapor shop in Blawnox after the lithium batteries he purchased at the store allegedly exploded in his pocket and caused him to suffer burns. -
Parents of child who suffered broken leg at ice skating class settle lawsuit for $29K
PITTSBURGH – The parents of a six-year-old child who allegedly suffered a broken leg during a beginner ice skating class have settled their litigation with the ice rink where the incident took place for about $29,000. -
Pa. couple stand by claims against Illinois farmers market chain, surrounding fall in Cranberry Township store
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania couple have reiterated their claims against an Illinois-based farmers market chain, after one of the plaintiffs struck a raised bumper and fell while shopping in a local store owned by the defendant. -
Defendant dismissed from tenant's lawsuit which he alleged he fell over his apartment complex's retaining walls
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania management company has been dismissed from the lawsuit of a tenant who had sued it for negligence, connected to their fall over a pair of retaining walls in their apartment parking lot. -
Class action alleges Chicago loan company engaged in usurious lending practices which violated Pa. state laws
PITTSBURGH – A Washington County woman alleges in a class action lawsuit that an Illinois online lender has violated state laws in charging usurious interest rates on loans it offered to its customers. -
Allegheny County judge grants objections in carpet cleaner's COVID-19 exposure and wrongful termination case
PITTSBURGH – A state court judge has granted the preliminary objections of an upholstery cleaning company, which is defending itself against a wrongful termination suit filed by a former employee who says he was fired for objecting to working in areas where protective measures were not being practiced during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Suit alleges senior living facility's neglect, overmedication led to patient's death
PITTSBURGH — A Bethal Park senior living facility is facing a lawsuit alleging its overmedicating and neglect of a patient led to her fall, hip fracture, malnutrition and death. -
Allegheny County sued after woman falls four feet off road
PITTSBURGH — A couple are suing the County of Allegheny alleging its failure to properly light and warn of a drop off near a pedestrian guardrail break caused the wife to fall off a four-foot drop and suffer multiple injuries. -
Steel City Media fights back against lawsuit over alleged violation of its hire's no-compete agreement
PITTSBURGH – Steel City Media and one of its on-air radio personalities have denied they violated the no-compete terms of an agreement the talent had signed with her former employer back in 2014, and claim that the suit is barred. -
Defendant in cave-in wrongful death suit argues counts should be dismissed for failure to follow rule of law
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.