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Drug companies face complaint over alleged injuries from Nuvaring birth...
gavelA Philadelphia woman is suing the makers of the Nuvaring birth control system over claims that she sustained injuries as a result of using the product during a seven-year time period. Louisiana...
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Phila. judge urges Superior Court to quash McNeil appeal of $10 million...
Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Nitza I. QuinonesA Philadelphia trial court judge recently filed a lengthy opinion outlining why she feels the state Superior Court should quash an appeal by...
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Phila. defense verdict in HRT case against Wyeth affirmed by Pa. Superior...
Superior Court Senior Judge Eugene B. StrassburgerA three-judge state Superior Court panel has upheld a defense verdict in a hormone replacement therapy case originating out of Philadelphia in which a...
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Makers of log-spitting device hit with products liability claim by Pa. man...
Thomas A. LynamA Bucks County man has filed a products liability complaint against the makers of a hydraulic log splitting device that allegedly malfunctioned and caused what the lawsuit terms the...
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Phila. med mal, wrongful death case ends in $19.5 million plaintiffs’ verdict
Laura FeldmanA Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury recently awarded $19.5 million to the widower of a woman who died as a result of medical malpractice by the Hospital of the University of...
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Finish Line faces personal injury claim by Bucks County couple
Margaret E. QuinlanA Bucks County woman claims in a newly filed personal injury suit that she became injured last spring after a “brick-sized” credit card machine fell on top of her foot while she was...
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Indiana plaintiff files Topamax mass tort claim in Phila. court
Eric H. WeitzA Philadelphia plaintiffs’ attorney has filed a mass tort claim in state court on behalf of an Indiana woman who alleges her child was born with a cleft palate as a result of the mother...
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Lowe’s faces personal injury claim by customer struck by electric cart by...
Frank MurphyA Montgomery County woman is suing the home improvement retail chain Lowe’s over allegations that she became injured when an employee, who the plaintiff claims was drunk at the time, ran...
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PetSmart manager sues overhead garage door manufacturer over workplace injury
Martin BrighamThe manager of a Pennsylvania retail store is suing the makers of an overhead garage door over claims that the device came down and shattered her shoulder and arm, all the while pinning...
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Manufacturer of water launcher that injured boy seeks to remove case to...
Bradley D. RemickThe makers of a toy water gun that was allegedly responsible for giving a Montgomery County child a severe facial laceration that led to a “prominent and very disfiguring” scar are...
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In infant death product liability case, federal judge grants remand to Phila....
U.S. District Judge Juan R. Sanchez A woman suing the makers of an infant carrier that allegedly caused the death of her child has succeeded in getting the case remanded to state court. Anthoinette...
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Montco man sues DePuy Orthopaedics, J&J over alleged injuries tied to hip...
Howard LouikA Montgomery County man is suing DePuy Orthopaedics and Johnson & Johnson over allegations that he sustained injuries as a result of having had a defective hip replacement system...
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Pa. Superior Court affirms Phila. judge’s granting summary judgment to Glaxo...
Superior Court Senior Judge Eugene B. StrassburgerA Pennsylvania Superior Court panel has affirmed a granting of summary judgment to drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline in a Paxil products liability case...
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Judge transfers FELA claim from eastern Pa. to Western District
U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. PratterA federal judge in Philadelphia has agreed to transfer a suit alleging violations of the Federal Employers’ Liability Act from one end of the commonwealth to the...
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N. Carolina plaintiff files Tylenol products liability claim in Phila....
Michael M. Weinkowitz A North Carolina woman joins the growing list of plaintiffs suing drugmakers McNeil PPC and Johnson & Johnson over allegations that the defendants failed to warn users that...
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Lawyers representing trucking co. in vehicle injury case move to transfer...
Dawn DohertyAttorneys for a New Jersey-based trucking company have filed a request to transfer a personal injury claim initiated against their client from the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas to the...
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Federal judge rules Italian co. liable in Pa. man’s ‘degloving’ workplace injury
U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter In a gruesome workplace injury case befitting a horror film script, a federal judge has partially ruled in favor of a plaintiff who suffered a “degloving” injury...
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N.J.-based Howmedica Osteonics faces product liability complaint over defect...
Thomas R. AnapolA Montgomery County woman is suing the makers of an artificial hip replacement system over allegations that she sustained various injuries as a result of having had the device...
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Defense lawyer petitions federal court to move motor vehicle injury suit out...
Elizabeth HorneffAn attorney representing a New Jersey man who is being sued by a Philadelphia resident over claims that the plaintiff sustained serious back injuries after his vehicle was struck in...
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Judge denies plaintiffs’ petition for new trial in workplace injury case
U.S. District Judge Petrese Tucker A federal judge in Philadelphia has denied a petition for a new trial in a workplace injury case that ended in a defense verdict. U.S. District Judge Petrese B....
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