Dawn Gibson has filed a lawsuit against Crothall Healthcare Inc., alleging racial discrimination after being fired over an incident involving free Chick-Fil-A sandwiches at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. The case highlights claims under Title VII and Section 1981 laws for wrongful termination based on race.
PITTSBURGH – An Altoona couple alleges that doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center failed to follow up on the wife-plaintiff’s initial diagnosis of adenopathy, which she says led her to develop late-stage thyroid cancer.
PITTSBURGH – University of Pittsburgh McKeesport hospital and its physicians have denied that they were liable for allegedly failing to discover a 33-year-old man’s pulmonary embolism, which caused his death last summer.
PITTSBURGH – An Allegheny County judge has declined to strike punitive damages from a lawsuit brought by a tenant against their apartment complex, arguing that its alleged negligence caused them to fall on an icy sidewalk and fracture one of their lumbar vertebrae.
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh man maintains that due to his apartment building owner’s negligence, he suffered a fall on an icy sidewalk and fractured one of his lumbar vertebrae – standing in opposition to the owner’s preliminary objections, which he says have no basis in law.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania woman who claimed that the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center at McKeesport was negligent in its care of her late father, after he suffered a pair of heart attacks which ultimately claimed his life, now adds that the hospital system has not responded to her discovery requests.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Kelly Vanepps-Shiray against Carly Farinelli, City of Hermitage, Heather Bush, Kayla Kerr, Louis Lauderbaugh, Masashi Okubo, Matt Chlpka, Mcgonigle Ambulance Service, Inc., Noah Amrhein, Officer Christopher Morse, UPMC Horizon, UPMC Horizon Greenville and University of Pittsburgh Physicians on Jan. 12.
PITTSBURGH – A health care company has filed preliminary objections to litigation alleging that an Allison Park plaintiff’s mother was the recipient of sub-standard care at her nursing facility, leading her to suffer a fall that caused a cut on her head, a broken neck and a broken hip, which caused severe pain and led to her death.
PITTSBURGH – All claims against one health care company have been dismissed from litigation alleging that an Allison Park plaintiff’s mother was the recipient of sub-standard care at her nursing facility, leading her to suffer a fall that caused a cut on her head, a broken neck and a broken hip, which caused severe pain and led to her death.
PITTSBURGH – One health care company is seeking to be dismissed from litigation alleging that an Allison Park plaintiff’s mother was the recipient of sub-standard care at her nursing facility, leading her to suffer a fall that caused a cut on her head, a broken neck and a broken hip, which caused severe pain and led to her death.
PITTSBURGH – A settlement has been finalized in litigation filed over burn injuries a Western Pennsylvania woman says she suffered, when a plastic container allegedly failed and meatballs fell onto her left foot.
PITTSBURGH – University of Pittsburgh’s Magee-Womens’ Hospital and one of its doctors have denied allegations that they committed professional negligence which led to the death of the plaintiffs’ newborn child last year.
HARRISBURG – A Black-owned EMS ambulance company in Western Pennsylvania has voluntarily dismissed its own litigation against a host of medical professionals and health care companies, which alleged it faced a conspiracy of racial discrimination on the part of the defendants.
PITTSBURGH – A U.S. Navy veteran who alleged that sub-standard care he received at his local Veterans Affairs hospital resulted in his suffering permanent vision loss and damage, is settling his claims with the federal government.
HARRISBURG – The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has affirmed the revocation of a medical license for a nephrologist found to have made numerous unwanted sexual advances toward nurses and medical support staff.
HARRISBURG – One doctor has been conditionally dismissed from negligence litigation brought by a Virginia woman, who alleged her Erb’s Palsy and arm and shoulder injuries were the result of her being delivered in a hazardous and dangerous manner in a Pennsylvania hospital.
PITTSBURGH – A settlement is in the works, in litigation filed over burn injuries a Western Pennsylvania woman says she suffered, when a plastic container allegedly failed and the meatballs fell onto her left foot.
PITTSBURGH – A Canonsburg couple say their child was born with severe bodily impairments after the delivery staff at St. Clair Hospital performed negligently during childbirth in September 2017.
PITTSBURGH – An Allison Park woman alleges that her mother was the recipient of sub-standard care at her nursing facility, leading her to suffer a fall that caused a cut on her head, a broken neck and a broken hip, which caused severe pain and led to her death.
