PITTSBURGH — An administrator of a deceased man's estate is suing truck driver Richard A. Wiegard and his employer, Brown's Orchards & Farm Market, alleging negligence and insufficient measures taken to prevent injuries.
PHILADELPHIA – Due to irreconcilable differences, a local judge has permitted plaintiff counsel to exit a lawsuit stemming from a sidewalk fall in South Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA – As a result of a plaintiff attorney filing a motion to reactivate a previously-settled motor vehicle accident case, a Philadelphia judge has seen fit to grant the motion and the case will proceed.
PHILADELPHIA – Plaintiffs have chosen to discontinue a premises liability lawsuit without prejudice, after their former counsel unsuccessfully attempted to withdraw from representing them.
PHILADELPHIA – Defense objections have been officially overruled in a case in which a King of Prussia man was injured by gunfire in a lovers quarrel outside a bar in Landsdowne.
PHILADELPHIA – Per a ruling from a state court judge in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas this week, a steelworker’s injury case has been transferred to Chester County.
PHILADELPHIA – After a continuance, a hearing took place this week to decide the result of several preliminary objections at issue in the personal injury lawsuit filed by a King of Prussia man who was seriously injured by gunfire outside a Landsdowne bar.
PHILADELPHIA – A local judge has denied defense counsel’s request to withdraw from a premises liability case that was initiated as a result of serious injuries allegedly incurred from a sidewalk fall in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia judge has rejected a plaintiff attorney’s attempt to exit a premises liability lawsuit, even though he alleged his clients were not able to prove their child’s injuries were directly caused by a related fall accident.
PHILADELPHIA – Three motions for preliminary objection motions in a car accident lawsuit will be decided in a rescheduled hearing set for September in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia judge recently denied a defense attorney’s attempt to send a gas station scaffold fall case to the Chester County Court of Common Pleas.
PHILADELPHIA – A personal injury lawsuit concerning a local food bank organization has been stayed for 90 days, pending an assignment and securing of new plaintiff representation.
PHILADELPHIA – Per an order from a Philadelphia judge, a motor vehicle accident case filed in Philadelphia has been transferred to the Chester County Court of Common Pleas.
PHILADELPHIA – Defense counsel has added a Doylestown landscaping company to a slip-and-fall lawsuit emanating from Huntingdon Valley, who has approximately three weeks to respond to that legal action.
PHILADELPHIA – A premises liability lawsuit against a Haverford hotel is not only remaining in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, but a switch has been made in counsel for the defendant parties in the action.
PHILADELPHIA – A lawsuit filed against the management company of the Valley Forge Casino Resort Radisson Hotel has been stayed for 120 days, in the wake of the case’s plaintiff counsel departing the suit.
PHILADELPHIA – An elevator fall injury case against Best Western International, Inc. (BWI) has been tentatively listed for trial in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, mere weeks after a $95,000 default judgment against the hotel company was struck down.
PHILADELPHIA – A severe motor vehicle accident collision case from 2013, listed for disposition in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, was recently settled before the start of trial proceedings, a judge announced this week.
