PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh couple allege that Allegheny General Hospital, its parking garage and one of its employees negligently allowed a parking gate arm to fall and strike the wife-plaintiff on the head, causing her severe injuries.
ALLENTOWN – The City of Lancaster, the Lancaster Police Department and one of its police officers have now twice attempted to dismiss litigation from a Maryland woman, who claimed she was the victim of excessive force from Lancaster police officers and suffered a broken arm in the process, when the police came to her residence and forcibly evicted her.
PHILADELPHIA – A Walmart shoplifter alleges that police who responded to the incident tackled her in the parking lot, causing her to hit her head on the pavement and suffer a traumatic brain injury.
PITTSBURGH – An Allegheny County woman who brought suit against discount grocery store chain Aldi after she says a metal produce shelf fell on her when she was shopping inside the grocer’s West Mifflin store, has refuted the defendant’s denials of liability.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for a Western Pennsylvania woman who suffered third-degree burns over 70% of her body in a motor vehicle crash over two years ago, has refuted denials of liability from two of the defendants named in the subsequent litigation.
PHILADELPHIA – A former teacher and member of the LGBTQ community, who claimed she faced discrimination and retaliation by the School District of Philadelphia before being fired and lost her case through summary judgment dismissal, has appealed that decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Troutman Pepper client Palvella Therapeutics, Inc., a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, recently announced the initial closing of its Series D financing of up to $37.7 million.
PITTSBURGH – An Allegheny County Jail inmate claims the slippery surface of a shower floor caused him to fall and suffer herniated discs in his spine and other injuries.
PHILADELPHIA – The School District of Philadelphia has won summary judgment dismissal in a lawsuit brought by a former teacher and member of the LGBTQ community who claimed she faced discrimination and retaliation by the District before being fired.
PHILADELPHIA – For the second time, a federal judge has dismissed litigation from a woman who alleged that the school bus sexual assault she endured as a middle school student was the fault of her school, which was said to have disregarded the alleged assailant’s history of prior assaults and violated her constitutional rights in the process.
Troutman Pepper Senior Counsel Nina M. Gussack has been recognized among The 2022 Impact 50, a list by City & State Pennsylvania of Pennsylvanians who have dedicated their careers and lives to making the commonwealth a better, safer place to live.
PITTSBURGH – Rite Aid has expressly denied liability in a negligence lawsuit brought by a Rochester woman, who claimed she fell on uncleaned salt and snow at her local store last January, breaking her right ankle in the process.
LANCASTER – In a suit which claimed a landlord’s negligence resulted in the ceiling of the plaintiff’s prior domicile collapsing on her, due to failure to repair a leak in her living room ceiling, the landlord has brought preliminary objections to dismiss claims for lack of specificity.
PHILADELPHIA – A man formerly in the local prison system continues to allege that he received sub-standard medical care from the City of Philadelphia and the Chief of Medical Operations at the Philadelphia Department of Prisons, which led him to develop a MRSA infection and be permanently disfigured.
PHILADELPHIA – The Logan Hotel has denied that it racially discriminated against and harassed a private detective working in a protective capacity for media covering the 2020 Presidential Election in Philadelphia.
PITTSBURGH – Internet marketplace eBay is looking to arbitrate injury claims from a Western Pennsylvania woman who alleged she was seriously injured by the electric scooter she bought, when its handlebars suddenly collapsed and caused her to lose her balance and fall, sustaining a right ankle fracture.
LANCASTER – A Canadian manufacturer is seeking the finalization of a $1,000 settlement, for injuries sustained by a Lancaster child after she was injured by a microwaved stuffed animal.
