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AG Michelle Henry: ‘The FTC and Congress must act to ensure fulsome regulation of PBMs nationwide’

By Pennsylvania Record |
State Attorney General Michelle Henry (D-Pennsylvania) sent a letter to U.S. Congressional leadership this week saying Congress should “act to ensure fulsome regulation of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).

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Philly wins dismissal of RFK Jr.-chaired nonprofit's case against COVID child vax measures

By Nicholas Malfitano |
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia has won dismissal of litigation from a California nonprofit group chaired by independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. concerning allegations that the City was vaccinating young children against COVID-19 without parental consent, for a lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

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Widow of man who died from COVID-19 tries to keep suit alive against Allegheny County corrections officials

By Nicholas Malfitano |
PITTSBURGH – The widow of a man incarcerated at the Allegheny County Jail and who passed away from COVID-19 two years ago, a plaintiff who contended that institutional failures on the part of the jail and its officials directly contributed to his death, is now trying to refute an attempt to dismiss her case.

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Pa. Supreme Court tells lower court to decide whether Medicaid can cover abortions

By Nicholas Malfitano |
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania’s highest court has ruled that a lower appellate court will once again take up a case whose outcome will determine whether Medicaid funds will be permitted to cover the cost of abortions.

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$1.1M settlement proposed in class action versus Gannon University over its format during COVID-19

By Nicholas Malfitano |
ERIE – An undergraduate student who filed a class action lawsuit against Gannon University, claiming that he and others were deprived of the on-campus education and experience they paid for when the COVID-19 pandemic occurred and learning shifted to remote status, now looks to have the case settled for $1.1 million.

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Federal judge sides with former CHOP engineering supervisor, who was fired for not getting COVID vax

By Nicholas Malfitano |
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has ruled that a former engineering supervisor who claimed he faced religious discrimination in his work at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia based upon his refusal to get the COVID-19 vaccine and who was later fired for that same decision, has presented a strong enough case for the matter to proceed.

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Philly argues that RFK Jr.-chaired nonprofit's case against COVID child vax measures should be dismissed

By Nicholas Malfitano |
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia seeks to dismiss litigation from a California nonprofit group chaired by independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. concerning allegations that the City was vaccinating young children against COVID-19 without parental consent, for failure to state claims upon which relief could be granted.

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Pa. left as lone defendant in suit from family of man about to be released from 45-year prison term, only to die of COVID-19

By Nicholas Malfitano |
PHILADELPHIA – The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is the lone defendant remaining in litigation brought by the family of a man who died from COVID-19 shortly before he was to be released from prison after more than four decades, litigation which charged that state officials did not approve the decedent’s pardon in a timely manner, allegedly leaving him at greater risk for contracting the virus and causing his death.

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Allegheny County officials deny liability for death of inmate from COVID-19 in 2021

By Nicholas Malfitano |
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County and the warden of its jail have denied responsibility for the COVID-19-related death of a man who had been incarcerated there two years ago.

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AstraZeneca wants to dismiss lawsuit from former executive fired for refusing COVID vax

By Nicholas Malfitano |
PHILADELPHIA – Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a senior executive formerly in its employ, because he allegedly refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine and was denied an exemption for religious reasons.

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Gannon University settles class action claims that it didn't refund fees during COVID-19

By Nicholas Malfitano |
ERIE – Gannon University looks to have settled class action claims which charged that students were deprived of the on-campus education and experience they paid for, when the COVID-19 pandemic occurred and learning shifted to remote status.

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Bethel Park couple continue to say they contracted COVID-19 from therapist not using PPE

By Nicholas Malfitano |
PITTSBURGH – A Bethel Park couple have held to their claims that an at-home physical therapist’s negligence in conducting therapy without making use of personal protective equipment, led to both of them contracting COVID-19.

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Judge severs nearly all plaintiffs from COVID-19 vaccine mandate suit versus Allegheny County and others

By Nicholas Malfitano |
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has severed the civil rights violation claims of 14 former employee plaintiffs against Allegheny County and various County executives, over the County’s institution of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate that resulted in the plaintiffs losing their jobs.

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Judge warns of possible dismissals, in vax disclosure case aimed at plaintiff's former employer

By Nicholas Malfitano |
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has ordered that unprejudiced dismissal would come to any defendant left unserved in a complaint brought by a paralegal of nine-and-a-half years with a prominent Philadelphia plaintiffs’ law firm, who alleged her former employer disclosed her COVID-19 vaccination status to a legal news publication in violation of the confidentiality provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

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Wrongful death claim dropped from suit over man's COVID-19 death at Delco facility

By Nicholas Malfitano |
PHILADELPHIA – Delaware County and a local senior care facility have successfully overcome a wrongful death claim, in a lawsuit filed by the surviving children of a man who died from COVID-19 while under the facility’s care.

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Allegheny County looking to dismiss suit from sheriff's deputy who claimed COVID vax violated his beliefs

By Nicholas Malfitano |
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County and its Sheriff’s Office are seeking to dismiss litigation which alleged that they failed to reasonably accommodate the religious beliefs of one of its employees, when it mandated obtaining vaccination against COVID-19.

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Judge denies SEPTA's attempt to dismiss case from estate of former conductor who died of COVID-19

By Nicholas Malfitano |
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has rejected an attempt by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) to dismiss a case from the estate of a Southern New Jersey man, one which alleged that the agency failed to protect the decedent in his work for it as a conductor and subsequently led him to contract a two-year-long fatal case of COVID-19.

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Allegheny County looking to dismiss suit from corrections officer who claimed she was fired for refusing COVID vax

By Nicholas Malfitano |
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County is seeking to dismiss litigation from a veteran corrections officer who alleged she was fired for refusing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, a treatment she wouldn’t consent to because she believes it violates her sincerely-held religious beliefs.