A state trial court judge late last week put the brakes on a plan by SEPTA to outsource maintenance work on a fleet of city commuter railcars, ordering the mass transit agency and the union representing its employees to meet during the next few months to attempt to come to an agreement on the matter.
The owners of a piece of property in Northwest Philadelphia and their business tenants have filed a civil claim against the owners of an adjoining property and a construction firm for damages to the plaintiff’s property that were allegedly caused by the demolition of the adjoining structure.
Pennsylvania’s top law enforcer has announced that the commonwealth has joined 40 other state attorneys general in support of federal legislation that would give generic drug makers the same ability to correct label warnings as their brand-name counterparts.
The family of a Philadelphia woman who died four days after being admitted to the emergency room at Chestnut Hill Hospital in the northwestern part of the city has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the agency and the doctors involved with the deceased woman’s care.
A school district in central Pennsylvania attended by one of accused child molester Jerry Sandusky’s alleged victim’s is objecting to a subpoena drafted by the former Penn State University assistant football coach’s defense attorney.
The state Attorney General’s Office has filed a lawsuit against an Arizona charity for soliciting illegal donations, two years after Pennsylvania’s top law enforcer entered into a consent agreement with the same group after it was discovered that the charitable organization was not registered in Pennsylvania, as required by law.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly announced Wednesday that her office has joined 14 other states and Puerto Rico in a lawsuit charging three of the country’s largest book publishers and computer giant Apple Inc. with scheming to fix the sale prices of electronic books.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office has announced that it has filed consumer protection lawsuits against six western Pennsylvania home improvement contractors.
