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Judge transfers FELA claim from eastern Pa. to Western District
A federal judge in Philadelphia has agreed to transfer a suit alleging violations of the U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter 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....
A North Carolina woman joins the growing list of plaintiffs suing drugmakers McNeil Michael M. Weinkowitz 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...
Attorneys for a New Jersey-based trucking company have filed a request to transfer a Dawn Doherty 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
In a gruesome workplace injury case befitting a horror film script, a federal judge has U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter 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...
A Montgomery County woman is suing the makers of an artificial hip replacement system Thomas R. Anapol 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...
An attorney representing a New Jersey man who is being sued by a Philadelphia resident Elizabeth Horneff 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
A federal judge in Philadelphia has denied a petition for a new trial in a workplace injury U.S. District Judge Petrese Tucker case that ended in a defense verdict. U.S. District Judge Petrese B....
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Elderly woman dropped face-first from wheelchair sues paratransit agency in...
An elderly Philadelphia woman asserts in a newly filed personal injury complaint that she Gabriel Levin 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...
The 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 filed...
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Boy Scouts, Hershey Creamery Co. sued over ‘catastrophic’ injuries to boy
The estate of a former Boy Scout who was catastrophically injured after being struck by a Thomas Kline 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...
Two city agencies are being sued by a driver and passenger who claim they became injured Jerry Lyons 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
An Arizona woman is suing drugmaker Bayer over claims that the defendant’s birth Wendy R. Fleishman 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...
An elderly Maryland man who was diagnosed with lung cancer on Jan. 30 of last year has Robert E. Paul 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...
A Pennsylvania Superior Court panel has reversed a Philadelphia trial court’s judgment Senior Pa. Superior Court Judge James Fitzgerald, III in favor of a plaintiff who launched a premises liability...
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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 instead hear the case....
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Junior Seau wrongful death claim consolidated with NFL concussion litigation
A lawsuit brought by the family of Tiaina B. “Junior” Seau over the late professional Steven M. Strauss 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
An Oklahoma mother has filed a complaint in the Multidistrict Zoloft Marketing Peyton Murphy 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...
A federal judge sitting in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has denied a bid by an out- Frederic S. Eisenberg 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...
Lawyers representing a West Virginia commercial trucking company being sued by a City Gerald McHugh, Jr. 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...
For the second time in a week, retail giant Target Corp. has come out on the winning end U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond of litigation initiated by plaintiffs who claim they became injured due to...
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