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Federal judicial panel OKs creation of Tylenol products liability MDL in Phila.
Attorneys representing plaintiffs who allege they suffered liver failure damage or failure U.S. District Judge Lawrence F. Stengel 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.
When the country’s major tobacco companies paid out more than $200 billion in the late U.S. District Judge Anita Brody 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...
The federal judge handling the case of a man who claims Pennsylvania State troopers set U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter 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...
A Philadelphia jury last month returned a hefty $15 million-plus plaintiffs’ verdict in a Thomas Duffy 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
A Pennsylvania couple is suing the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, a Bucks County parish Marci Hamilton 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
Attorneys for an armored car company being sued by a Bucks County man over Charles M. Adams 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
Philadelphia law firm Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin recently William L. Banton, Jr. announced that one of its lawyers, William Banton, Jr., has become a fellow of the American...
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First oral arguments held in NFL players’ injury case
Attorneys representing both sides in the massive multidistrict football players’ injury Paul Clement addresses media outside U.S. District Court in Philadelphia litigation playing out at the federal...
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N.Y. Tylenol wrongful death claim transferred to MDL in Philadelphia
A wrongful death claim that had been filed by a New York State widow over her U.S. District Judge Lawrence F. Stengel husband’s death as an alleged result of Tylenol use has been transferred to the...
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Pa. House Judiciary Committee mulls over asbestos-related Fairness in Claims...
The state House Judiciary Committee recently held a hearing on House Bill 1150, also Pa. State Rep. Bryan Cutler known as the Fairness in Claims and Transparency Act, or FACT, which would provide for...
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Pa. plaintiff sues makers of weight loss product for allegedly causing liver...
A Pennsylvania woman is suing the makers of a weight loss product over claims that she James C. Shah suffered liver toxicity after ingesting the supplement in the spring of 2011. Karen Jacobs-Poles and...
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Federal judge remands Wal-Mart injury case to Phila. Common Pleas Court
A federal judge has granted a plaintiff’s motion to remand in a personal injury case playing out against retail giant Wal-Mart. U.S. District Judge Joel H. Slomsky, sitting in the Eastern District of...
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Defense lawyers in Wal-Mart workplace injury case petition federal court to...
Defendants in a workplace injury case initiated by a tractor-trailer driver have moved Michael H. DiGenova to transfer the litigation out of Philadelphia’s Common Pleas Court and into the U.S. District...
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Colorado plaintiff’s $3.1 million verdict against Riddell raises questions...
A Colorado jury recently determined that helmet manufacturer Riddell failed to Martin Buchanan adequately warn a former football player about the dangers of concussions, with the verdict coming mere...
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Philly D.A. charges 10 with filing false injury claims against SEPTA
In what seems to have become a common trend as of late, the Philadelphia District Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams Attorney’s Office has once again made arrests in connection with alleged...
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Judge allows expert witness testimony to go forward in products liability case
A federal judge in Philadelphia has denied two defense motions in a products liability U.S. District Court Judge William H. Yohn, Jr. case, one to exclude the plaintiff’s expert witness testimony and...
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Defense lawyers petition to remove KFC injury case to federal court
A case involving a Philadelphia-area fast food manager who claims she broke her ankle Jon Michael Dumont after slipping on a puddle of water at her place of employment may have to proceed in federal,...
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Phila. judge urges Pa. Superior Court to affirm denial to transfer Comcast...
A Philadelphia trial court judge this week docketed an opinion outlining why she believes Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Frederica A. Massiah-Jackson her order denying a motion to transfer venue...
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Avandia judge: GSK removal to federal court premature, sends suits back to...
U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe, of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, recently granted U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe a motion by two health insurers to remand their respective Avandia drug...
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Florida lung cancer victim files asbestos mass tort claim in Philadelphia
A Florida man who had a history of working with products containing asbestos dust and Kevin Mulderig fibers has filed a mass tort complaint at the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas over allegations...
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