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Elderly woman dropped face-first from wheelchair sues paratransit agency in...
Gabriel LevinAn elderly Philadelphia woman asserts in a newly filed personal injury complaint that she suffered facial lacerations and other injuries when she was dropped by a transit employee who had...
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Family of elderly woman who died from scalding injuries sues home...
gavelThe family of an elderly Philadelphia woman who allegedly died as a result of scalded by hot bath water in what the plaintiffs contend was an act of negligence on the part of contractors have...
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Boy Scouts, Hershey Creamery Co. sued over ‘catastrophic’ injuries to boy
Thomas Kline The estate of a former Boy Scout who was catastrophically injured after being struck by a truck while the boy was riding a bicycle as part of a group outing has filed a negligence action...
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Motorists sue Phila. Water, Streets depts. over injuries from construction...
Jerry LyonsTwo city agencies are being sued by a driver and passenger who claim they became injured after driving their vehicle into an open construction hole smack dab in the middle of a roadway....
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Bayer sued over injuries allegedly caused by Mirena birth control system
Wendy R. FleishmanAn Arizona woman is suing drugmaker Bayer over claims that the defendant’s birth control system Mirena caused her to sustain serious bodily injuries. Cynthia Solano asserts in her...
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Former Maryland mayor who developed lung cancer files asbestos mass tort...
Robert E. PaulAn elderly Maryland man who was diagnosed with lung cancer on Jan. 30 of last year has filed a mass tort injury claim in the asbestos docket consolidated in the Eastern District of...
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Pa. Superior Court reverses plaintiff’s verdict in Phila. injury case against...
Senior Pa. Superior Court Judge James Fitzgerald, IIIA Pennsylvania Superior Court panel has reversed a Philadelphia trial court’s judgment in favor of a plaintiff who launched a premises liability...
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LA Fitness petitions federal court to transfer injury case out of Phila....
Richard K. Washington, Jr.Attorneys representing LA Fitness in a personal injury case initiated in Philadelphia have petitioned the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to...
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Junior Seau wrongful death claim consolidated with NFL concussion litigation
Steven M. StraussA lawsuit brought by the family of Tiaina B. “Junior” Seau over the late professional football player’s suicide has been consolidated with other actions against the NFL involving...
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Oklahoma mother files Zoloft claim in Phila. federal court
Peyton MurphyAn Oklahoma mother has filed a complaint in the Multidistrict Zoloft Marketing Products Liability Litigation consolidated at the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia over allegations that...
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Gas rig wrongful death claim transferred out of Phila. and into Middle...
Frederic S. EisenbergA federal judge sitting in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has denied a bid by an out- of-state plaintiff to remand her wrongful death case to the Philadelphia Common Pleas...
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Trucking co. being sued by Phila. water reservoir guard seeks to transfer...
Gerald McHugh, Jr.Lawyers representing a West Virginia commercial trucking company being sued by a City of Philadelphia worker over injuries he allegedly sustained as a result of coming into contact...
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Another victory goes to Target Corp. in premises liability case initiated by...
U.S. District Judge Paul S. DiamondFor the second time in a week, retail giant Target Corp. has come out on the winning end of litigation initiated by plaintiffs who claim they became injured due to...
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Federal judicial panel OKs creation of Tylenol products liability MDL in Phila.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence F. StengelAttorneys representing plaintiffs who allege they suffered liver failure damage or failure due to their use of over-the-counter Tylenol have succeeded in getting...
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First oral arguments in NFL concussion case set for April 9 in Phila.
U.S. District Judge Anita Brody When the country’s major tobacco companies paid out more than $200 billion in the late 1990s to settle claims that they misled consumers about the health risks...
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Judge again denies summary judgment to Pa. troopers sued for setting man...
U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter The federal judge handling the case of a man who claims Pennsylvania State troopers set him aflame when they deployed a Taser gun toward the plaintiff, who had...
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Philly jury awards $15 million to plaintiff in products liability case...
Thomas DuffyA Philadelphia jury last month returned a hefty $15 million-plus plaintiffs’ verdict in a motor vehicle products liability case against Central City Toyota. According to court records and...
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Former Bucks County priest, Archdiocese of Phila. face sexual assault suit
Marci HamiltonA Pennsylvania couple is suing the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, a Bucks County parish and a priest who formerly worked at the church over claims that the man sexually assaulted the wife...
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Armored car service petitions federal court to hear vehicle injury case
Charles M. AdamsAttorneys for an armored car company being sued by a Bucks County man over allegations that he sustained serious injuries after being involved in a vehicle accident with the defendants...
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Phila. attorney becomes fellow of American College of Trial Lawyers
William L. Banton, Jr.Philadelphia law firm Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin recently announced that one of its lawyers, William Banton, Jr., has become a fellow of the American...
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