PITTSBURGH – Black & Decker disavows all allegations that it is responsible for a home construction fire that caused $5 million in damages in a demand made by a Texas insurance company seeking reimbursement of that same amount.
MEDIA – A Texas couple claim that their three-month-old son died from abdominal and intestinal complications, due to negligent care while in the custody of a Delaware County child care facility.
MEDIA – A fatal motor vehicle collision and subsequent lawsuit in a Delaware County court may have a settlement in the action approved at a final amount of $200,000.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by Jack Hagans against Integrated Production Services Inc., Superior Energy Services Inc. and Warrior Energy Services Corp. on Jan. 29: 'Case Transferred In From District Of Texas Southern; Case Number 4:14-cv-02965. Original File Certified Copy Of Transfer Order And Docket Sheet Received.'.
PITTSBURGH – A battery maker charges that a Pennsylvania state court has no personal jurisdiction over it, in an action brought against it by a Western Pennsylvania man who says he suffered severe burns after a lithium ion battery for his vaping device exploded in his pants pocket.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania woman claims that she developed ovarian cancer after using talc-based personal hygiene products sold by the Giant Eagle supermarket chain, for more than half of her life.
PITTSBURGH – The manufacturer of the social media app Snapchat says a lawsuit brought against it by two college students who received personal threats to their safety should be removed to federal court, for jurisdictional and monetary reasons.
PITTSBURGH – A vaping products manufacturer is seeking to change venue in an action brought against it by a Western Pennsylvania man, who says he suffered severe burns after a lithium ion battery for his vaping device exploded in his pants pocket.
PITTSBURGH – A Texas insurance company is seeking to be reimbursed to the tune of $5 million, after it paid that same amount to one of its policyholders who suffered a fire on his property during a period of home construction.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has denied an attempt from the Environmental Protection Agency to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, over the implementation of a specific tenet of the Clean Water Act.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued a joint statement regarding Texas’s efforts to discredit the 2020 election results in federal court.
PITTSBURGH – According to two college students who faced threats to their safety through the social media app Snapchat, the popular tool was designed to protect perpetrators using it to harass innocent people.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed an attempt by GOP politicians in Pennsylvania to throw out President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory on Tuesday, explaining it wouldn’t grant the requested injunctive relief.
PHILADELPHIA – Frito-Lay says it is not responsible for injuries suffered by a Chester County man who alleged that while at work last year, he both cracked his tooth and swallowed a foreign object he found in his package of potato chips.
PITTSBURGH – A California woman alleges she sustained a multitude of injuries to her right leg, including a broken leg, due to the negligent conduct of an urban trampoline park.
HARRISBURG – The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled Thursday afternoon that Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar lacked authority to extend a deadline for mail-in voters to show proof of identification by three days, and those voters’ ballots would not be counted.
PHILADELPHIA – A Chester County man alleges that while at work last year, he both cracked his tooth and swallowed a foreign object he found in his package of Frito-Lay potato chips.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Attorneys general from 10 states have filed an amici brief in litigation undertaken by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania against the Secretary of the Commonwealth, over the submission deadline of mail-in ballots in the 2020 Presidential Election.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man says he suffered severe burns after a lithium ion battery exploded in his pants pockets, and has sued the companies responsible for designing, manufacturing and distributing the device.
