News from 2014
N.J. couple sues Taney baseball team for misthrown ball; Phenom Mo'ne Davis was ace pitcher for team
The little league baseball team that captured the nation's attention and had its star pitcher Mo'ne Davis featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated faces a personal injury suit filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas by a New Jersey couple who says that an errant throw caused severe damage to a 73-year-old man.
Music school says bus company supplied defective tour buses with 'incompetent' drivers
A Lehigh County-based music school says a transportation company breached a contract
QVC says shopping app overloaded search engine and disrupted web services
Home retailing giant QVC, Inc. says that a mobile shopping app used webcrawling
Former creative director at advertising firm claims sexual harassment before termination
A former manager of creative services at a Northampton County-based advertising firm claims she endured approximately two years of sexual discrimination, harassment and retaliatory behavior from her supervisors before her wrongful termination in April 2013.
Superior Court reverses $19.5M medical malpractice verdict
A surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital provided a patient enough
Former hotel employee says supervisor discriminated against him before termination
A former engineering supervisor for the Embassy Suites hotel in Philadelphia says that his
State Supreme Court upholds $500K damages cap for school bus accident victim
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously ruled that it did not have the authority to
Bucks County couple sues GM for property damaage caused by car fire
A Bucks County husband and wife say that General Motors is responsible for the fire that started in their car and destroyed their garage, according to a product liability suit filed at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Task force delivers 130 recommendations to protect elders from abuse and neglect
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has adopted a blueprint to improve the way
Customer says negligent Philly supermarket caused broken wrist from trip and fall
A Chester County woman says that a Philadelphia supermarket created a hazardous
Counselor at Philly halfway house says termination violated civil rights
A former counselor at the Coleman Hall treatment center in Philadelphia says a manager
Commonwealth Court dismisses dog kennel suit over Pa. general fund transfer
A three-judge panel of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has dismissed a
Commonwealth Court upholds reinstatement of fired Lansdale police officer
A Lansdale police officer will return to duty following a 30-day suspension for failing to
Rival death care companies reach $18.75M settlement on client poaching dispute
A four-year lawsuit over a funeral products manufacturer and distributor's claim that former executives violated a severance contract by attempting to poach clients has concluded at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania after the defendants agreed to an $18.75 million settlement.
Truck driver sues real estate developer for injury on N.J. work site
A truck driver has filed a personal injury suit at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern
CBS anchor sued for falsely accusing school police officer of sexual abuse
A high school police officer says his reputation has been severely damaged after CBS-3
Home Depot employee claims she was wrongfully fired after forwarding fraudulent phone call
A former call center associate at the Philadelphia Home Depot located on Castor Avenue says that her termination was racially biased after she handed off a phone call that scammed the store out of an undisclosed sum of money, according to a wrongful termination suit filed at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
FedEx driver fired after DUI arrest says termination result of age discrimination
An ex-courier for FedEx accuses his former employer of using a DUI arrest as false pretext
Suit: 7-Eleven illegally terminated Philly franchisee's contract
A Bucks County man who had started several 7-Eleven franchise stores in the Northeast