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Three Things You Should Not Have to Worry About When You Hire a Capable Car Accident Attorney If you have been in a car crash in Pennsylvania, you probably have lots of worries. Your first priority should be taking care of your injuries, but there are also worries about your financial situation and how the crash will affect your future…
Motorists Have To Share The Road In a crash, a cyclist is much more vulnerable to suffering severe injuries than someone driving a car. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2009, 630 bicyclists were killed and another 51,000 were injured in traffic collisions in the United States. In Pennsylvania alone, 19 people died as a result of…
Drivers with Multiple DUI Offenses in Pennsylvania Drivers who repeatedly drive while intoxicated, even after getting multiple DUI convictions, put themselves and others at risk. Drunk driving is a major cause of car crashes that kill and maim people throughout Pennsylvania. In 2017, the department of transportation (PennDOT) recorded 12,040 crashes where a driver was suspected of being impaired, a…
CIVIL RIGHTS-JOB DISCRIMINATION-RACE Castleberry v. Sti Group, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 12611 (3rd Cir. July 14, 2017) Ambro, C.J. Castleberry and Brown brought suit asserting that their termination was racially motivated, citing to various examples of discrimination such as remarks made at the workplace and unfair work treatment. The District Court dismissed their complaint. Because Plaintiffs state plausible claims of…
WRONGFUL DISCHARGE-WHISTLEBLOWER-PRIVATE EMPLOYER Heckman v. UPMC Wellsboro, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS (M.D. Pa. July 7, 2021) (Brann, J.) On September 15, 2020, Dr. Matthew Heckman commenced this lawsuit against UPMC Wellsboro, North Penn Comprehensive Health Services, and the Green Home. On November 23, 2020, Heckman filed a five-count amended complaint seeking a declaratory judgment regarding Heckman’s employment agreement and relief for…
PRODUCTS LIABILITY-PELVIC MESH DEVICE Brown v. C.R. Bard, Inc., 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 24660 (E.D. Pa. February 11, 2022) (Leeson, Jr., J.). In this Bard pelvic mesh case, a motion to dismiss an amended was filed by Bard. Plaintiff states a negligence claim for design defect and failure to warn. To the extent the count is based on a manufacturing…
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE-CERTIFICATE OF MERIT-CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY Cuneo v. UPMC, Pa. No. 21-0717 (C.P. Lycoming March 3, 2022) (Linhardt, J.). Plaintiff commenced this case by filing a Complaint on July 20, 2021 against UPMC, a number of related corporate defendants (collectively the “Corporate Defendants”) and Defendant Sean T. MacMillen (“MacMillen”). Plaintiff alleges she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1996, and began…
NEGLIGENCE-COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES-TEAM SPORTS-SAFE PATHWAY Baumbach v. Lafayette Coll., 2022 Pa. Super. LEXIS 102 (March 4, 2022) (Dubow, J.). In this case, plaintiff was a team athlete. She was on the rowing team and had to go to and from the boathouse. The plaintiff was hit by a drunk driver when she and her teammates were walking back down a…
What the “Truck Driver Shortage” in PA Says About the Trucking Industry The trucking industry is hurting, causing problems for all motorists. There is a shortage of truck drivers across the country; and while it might seem that fewer trucks on the road should lead to fewer accidents, the result is the opposite. In Pennsylvania, as well as other states, the…
ROUNDUP CASES-WARNING Hardeman v. Monsanto Co., 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 14344; ___ F.3d ___; 2021 WL 1940550 (May 14, 2021) (R. Nelson, C.J.) What happened here is that the jury returned a verdict for $5,267,634.10 in compensatory, and $75 million in punitive damages. The district court reduced the jury’s punitive damage aware to only $20 million. Monsanto argued that the…