PITTSBURGH – A 94 year-old local artist charges she was the victim of a vicious assault and battery by her home health care aide, and is suing both the health care company and the aide for damages.
PITTSBURGH – A western Pennsylvania couple are suing a pair of Pittsburgh homeowners and their nanny for negligence, after their four year-old daughter was molested in the defendants’ home.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania couple are suing custodial and medical authorities for removing their then-eight month old son to foster care for two and a half weeks, on the incorrect suspicion that they were the cause of his broken leg.
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s recent decision that the Fair Share Act does not apply to asbestos lawsuits is another example of the court showing off its power over legislators who enacted tort reform measures, the head of a state civil justice group says.
PITTSBURGH - A class action lawsuit filed in Allegheny County against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) claims the health care provider violated privacy laws by sharing patient information with third parties.
PITTSBURGH – This week, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania heard an appeal to decide if error was made in determining liability during the trial of a woman who initially sued Major League Baseball, the Pittsburgh Pirates and other defendants for damages, after being struck by a foul ball during a game in 2015.
JOHNSTOWN — A federal judge in Pennsylvania has denied CBIZ Benefits & Insurance Services Inc.'s and actuary Jon Ketzner's motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit claiming CBIZ's neglectful understatement of pension liabilities associated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's acquisition of Altoona Regional Health System resulted in more than $100 million in damages.
Every year thousands of Americans overdose on fentanyl, a laboratory-created opioid that is 50 times stronger than heroin. Fentanyl is often smuggled into the United States from China and Mexico, and because fentanyl is made in a lab, chemists can change its structure to create what are known as “fentanyl analogues.”
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has formally denied an application for reconsideration and re-argument in a significant case that gave personal injury lawyers a boost by finding the seven-year time limit on filing medical malpractice lawsuits was “unconstitutional.”
PITTSBURGH – A negligence case against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Children’s Hospital which currently awaiting a decision from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, may have broad implications for judicial supervision of the process of jury selection in civil litigation statewide.
HARRISBURG – Several Pennsylvania health care organizations, business groups and the attorneys representing them have joined forces in filing a brief seeking reconsideration of a key state Supreme Court decision that found the seven-year limit on filing medical malpractice lawsuits was “unconstitutional.”
HARRISBURG – In a divided ruling sure to impact future medical malpractice litigation statewide, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently ruled that the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (MCARE) Act’s repose statute violates access to the courts, as assured by the Pennsylvania State Constitution.
PHILADELPHIA – A woman who claimed government officials and medical doctors had implanted radio devices inside her body against her will to alter her mind has had her claims deemed meritless and “fanciful" and then dismissed.
PITTSBURGH - The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and other defendants in a medical malpractice lawsuit over a failed liver transplant in 2003 will have to fight that litigation after a sharply split Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out a seven-year time bar.
PITTSBURGH – A settlement was recently reached in the case of a former physician at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center seeking well over $200,000 in post-termination back pay.
HARRISBURG — A state appeals panel has upheld a ruling that a Pittsburgh doctor was not negligent in treating a child who developed a severe skin condition.
The following cases categorized as "medical malpractice" cases were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Sept. 24. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by Daniel R. Davinsizer and Nancy J. Davinsizer against Anthony J. Bartkowiak, Blair Medical Associates, Blair Medical Associates Inc., UPMC Altoona Blair Medical Associates and UPMC Altoona Regional Health Services Inc. on Sept. 24.
PITTSBURGH - UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside was accused of violating the Human Relations Act by one of its psychiatric nurses who had been attacked by patients in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County on July 26. She filed the suit after allegedly being refused reasonable accommodations.
