SCRANTON – A federal court venue remains to be determined for a lawsuit between a Mississippi widower and a Mount Union company litigating over a suit concerning an allegedly defective natural gas heater which may have been responsible for the death of his wife.
PITTSBURGH – A Monroeville nursing home facility says that a former administrator who reported positive COVID-19 diagnoses at the facility to both county and state health authorities – and believes he was fired in retaliation – did not show he engaged in protected activity under the Pennsylvania Whistleblower Act.
PITTSBURGH – A Monroeville nursing home facility says that Pennsylvania’s at-will employment status bars the violation of public policy claim brought by a former administrator who reported positive COVID-19 diagnoses at the facility to both county and state health authorities – and believes he was fired in retaliation.
PITTSBURGH – A woodworker from Northwestern Pennsylvania says defective electric tools that he used in the course of his job led him to suffer amputation of two fingers on his right hand.
PITTSBURGH – A survival and wrongful death lawsuit has been brought against General Motors and a Western Pennsylvania auto dealership, after the plaintiff’s son was burned alive and killed in an accident and subsequent car fire.
The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Nov. 22. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by Billy S. Jackson and Judy Ann Jackson against Mckesson Corp., Merck & Co. Inc. and Merck Sharp and Dohme Corp. on Nov. 22.
ALLENTOWN – Guess, Inc. argues that an arbitration agreement signed upon employment precludes the discrimination and harassment claims brought to a federal court by an openly gay man, from being heard in his civil action.
The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Nov. 4. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Laura Jackson against Ryan Brightwell and Swift Transportation Company of Arizona LLC on Nov. 4.
The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Oct. 27. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Catherine M. Jackson against Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Oct. 27.
ALLENTOWN – An openly gay man who is suing Guess, Inc. for the treatment he says he received while employed at its Sands Bethlehem outlet store, is being permitted to proceed in his case anonymously.
The following cases categorized as "labor" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Sept. 10. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "labor" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Sept. 8. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact: