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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
A Philadelphia jury has awarded $85,000 in a limited tort motor vehicle case where the plaintiff claimed he suffered a disc herniation in his lower back.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
A Luzerne County jury has awarded more than $500,000, including punitive damages, to a man who suffered serious neck and back injuries in a car wreck where the plaintiff claimed the driver was under the influence of heroin and that his father allowed him use of the car, despite the son's spotty driving record and history of drug and alcohol abuse.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
On May 10, 2010, co-plaintiff Katherine Pino, 32, was operating a vehicle that was stopped in a supermarket parking lot in Philadelphia, waiting to enter a vacant parking space.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
The family of a man who died in a December car crash during a high-speed test drive with an intoxicated salesman has settled for $4.3 million.
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
In 2006, co-plaintiffs Timothy and Mary Reese purchased a used Mercury Monterey minivan from Faulkner-Ciocca Ford Mercury in Quakertown, Pa.
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
A Philadelphia jury has awarded a $19 million verdict to a man who lost his lower right leg in a car accident while he was pushing a car off to the side of the road.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
A Philadelphia jury awarded $8.9 million to a carpet installer who had to undergo three back surgeries after his leg broke through the floor of the townhome he was working in.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
A Bucks County jury has returned a $1.4 million verdict to a woman claiming she was overserved at the bar where she worked and then allowed to drive away before getting in a collision that caused her serious injuries.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The family of a 7-year-old girl who was killed by a drunken driver has reached a $15.6 million settlement with the driver?s insurer and the Hofbrauhaus restaurant in Pittsburgh, where the driver had been served just prior to the accident.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
A Lehigh County judge has issued a defense verdict in a case where a young girl's parents claimed doctors improperly managed their daughter's vaginal delivery, leading to shoulder dystocia and long-term disability as a result.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
A Philadelphia judge has returned a $79,000 verdict in favor of a woman who was injured when a van in which she was getting a ride was hit from behind by a driver on a highway on-ramp outside of Pittsburgh.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Citizens Bank dodged a multimillion-dollar bullet when a federal jury in Pittsburgh agreed with its designation of assistant branch managers as salaried employees not eligible for overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
A Philadelphia jury has awarded $35,000 to a man claiming he was assaulted by Temple University police officers and maliciously prosecuted for attempted murder and other charges of which he was eventually acquitted.
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has reached a $36 million settlement with Consol Energy over claims the company's coal mining caused structural damage that required a lake to be drained at a nearby state park.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The parties to a case in which a siding worker fell and hit his head after the roof porch he was working on collapsed have settled for $1.8 million.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
A man whose arms were crushed by a cardboard baler while working at an Acme has reached a combined $7.9 million settlement with the manufacturer, service technician and replacement part provider of the equipment.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
A Delaware County jury has awarded a $1.35 million verdict to a woman who was injured in a side-impact collision at an intersection by a driver she claimed had turned too widely and had been driving too fast.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
A $1 million settlement has been reached in a case where a man claimed he re-injured his back after a medical bed broke in half and collapsed beneath him.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
A 12-member Philadelphia jury awarded $700,000 to a state trooper who was injured when her vehicle was rear-ended.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
The parties in a case alleging that a recycling plant worker's left forearm and hand were "chewed up" by a shredder, causing them to be amputated, have agreed to settle the matter for nearly $2.5 million, the plaintiff's attorney has reported.