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Third Circuit affirms Robreno’s dismissal of 12 cases from asbestos MDL;...
Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Anthony J. SciricaA federal appeals court recently sided with the trial judge overseeing the multidistrict asbestos litigation playing out at U.S. District...
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Judge overseeing NFL concussion MDL expected to rule on dismissal motion July 22
U.S. District Judge Anita Brody To litigate or arbitrate? That’s the task currently assigned to a federal judge in Philadelphia presiding over the massive concussion injury litigation against the...
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Phila. cop sues Target Corp. for severe eye injuries sustained in attack by...
A Philadelphia police officer is suing retailer Target and two John Doe defendants over Jay L. Edelstein injuries he allegedly sustained after an altercation with one of the men at the Target store at...
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Ex-Philly firefighter who suffered near-fatal smoke inhalation sues makers of...
A former Philadelphia firefighter has filed a products liability complaint against the Larry Bendesky makers of a safety mask that he contends failed while in the midst of fighting a fire two years...
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Amtrak files petition to transfer premises liability action out of Pa. state...
Attorneys representing Amtrak in a premises liability case arising from injuries a Jay Solnick Philadelphia man allegedly sustained after falling on an escalator in Delaware are moving to transfer the...
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Phila. mass tort lawyer appointed co-lead counsel in Mirena multidistrict...
An experienced mass tort attorney from Philadelphia has been appointed plaintiffs’ co- James Ronca lead counsel in the Mirena IUD Products Liability Litigation being overseen by U.S. District Judge...
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Coloplast files petition to transfer defective penile implant products...
Medical device manufacturer Coloplast Corporation has filed a petition to transfer a Joseph Bongiovanni products liability case initiated by a Philadelphia man who claims he sustained injuries due to a...
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Federal govt., U.S. mail carrier face motor vehicle tort claim
A Bucks County couple has filed a federal tort claim against the United States Marshall Bleefeld government and a U.S. Postal Service employee over injuries the husband allegedly sustained in a motor...
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Commonwealth Court panel affirms reduction of $14 million injury verdict to...
In a closely watched case around the Philadelphia region, a state appellate court panel Pa. Commonwealth Court Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer recently affirmed a Bucks County Court judge’s decision to...
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Brody appoints former federal judge Layn Phillips as mediator in NFL...
Backtracking on her original intent to rule on the NFL’s motion to dismiss the Layn Phillips consolidated concussion litigation by month’s end, U.S. District Judge Anita Brody on Monday decided instead...
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Philly plaintiff claims she sustained fractured vertebrae in injury suit...
California-based clothing retailer Ross is named as a defendant in a slip-and-fall suit Alan F. Galerman initiated by a Philadelphia woman who claims she sustained a fractured vertebrae and spinal...
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Judge issues mixed ruling in J&J’s dismissal motion in surgical mesh products...
A federal judge in Philadelphia has refused to dismiss Johnson & Johnson as a defendant U.S. District Judge Jan DuBois from a lawsuit initiated by a woman who claims she sustained injuries due to...
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Finish Line faces personal injury claim by Bucks County couple
A Bucks County woman claims in a newly filed personal injury suit that she became Margaret E. Quinlan 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
A Philadelphia plaintiffs’ attorney has filed a mass tort claim in state court on behalf of Eric H. Weitz 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...
A Montgomery County woman is suing the home improvement retail chain Lowe’s over Frank Murphy 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
The manager of a Pennsylvania retail store is suing the makers of an overhead garage Martin Brigham 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...
The makers of a toy water gun that was allegedly responsible for giving a Montgomery Bradley D. Remick 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....
A woman suing the makers of an infant carrier that allegedly caused the death of her child U.S. District Judge Juan R. Sanchez 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...
A Montgomery County man is suing DePuy Orthopaedics and Johnson & Johnson over Howard Louik 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...
A Pennsylvania Superior Court panel has affirmed a granting of summary judgment to Strassburger drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline in a Paxil products liability case involving a deceased infant, but the judges...
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