PHILADELPHIA – A group of employees are suing the Eagleville Hospital claiming that they routinely worked overtime and during their lunch breaks without being compensated.
After a federal district court denied class certification to a group of former Pfizer employees seeking severance benefits, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has now concurred with the trial court ruling granting summary judgment.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has ruled all but one of a blood glucose monitoring equipment company’s antitrust claims against one of its chief rivals is "plausible."
Owners of a Philadelphia bar have been refused the ability to seek damages from their insurance provider after a business-related dispute with the establishment’s former manager.
The majority of age discrimination-related claims filed by a former member of the Bridgeport Police Department will proceed, according to a ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA – A plaintiff allegedly injured in a fall at an area YMCA has settled with the organization, according to Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas records.
A contempt hearing surrounding a number of parties funding the pursuit of a Liberian multimillion-dollar insurance verdict that a U.S. judge says violates a federal court injunction has been continued.
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has upheld a trial court ruling granting summary judgment against a woman who filed suit charging her birth defects were caused by thalidomide.
Aetna’s lawsuit against a clinical laboratory and sales company it says led the company to pay out numerous fraudulent health insurance claims has a survived a motion to dismiss from individual defendants associated with the case.
The state Superior Court recently ruled the owner of an Upper Darby mall allowed it to fall in such disrepair that it effectively evicted Sears, which alleged rodents, drug dealers and prostitutes could all be found on the premises.
A complaint brought against Allstate Insurance Company for alleged lack of indemnification for $500,000 in damages is headed to arbitration instead of back to state court, per the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Per a federal court, a former Philadelphia police officer’s claims of libel and slander against the City, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and former colleagues have been dismissed, but his other claims of race discrimination and retaliation remain.
PHILADELPHIA – On Dec. 1, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a trial court ruling to enforce a settlement between a former Asian employee of Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith and the company, in a civil rights discrimination case.
PHILADELPHIA – Per the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, a communications firm’s bid to overturn a trial court’s dismissal of fraud, misrepresentation and civil conspiracy claims against an employee group of its former client has failed.
PHILADELPHIA – On Dec. 15, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled to deny a new trial to a woman who filed both federal and state race and gender discrimination claims, plus retaliation claims against her former employer.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal appeals court has thrown out a breach of contract claim for over $700,000 in alleged unpaid sales commissions from a former Hewlett-Packard (HP) sales operative.
