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By Alex Anteau | May 31, 2024
Allegations of evidence tampering, witness intimidation and Tiktok videos circulated at trial.
5 minute read
By The Law Journal Editorial Board | May 31, 2024
The case reminds us that even narrow issues can attract the court's attention if not previously interpreted by an appellate court.
4 minute read
By Cedra Mayfield | May 31, 2024
"If you have a good client and a corporate defendant that has not preserved evidence or has mishandled evidence, then a case with bad facts can become a strong case," claimed lead plaintiff counsel Drew Gilliland.
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By Colleen Murphy | May 29, 2024
"This was a case of a corporation breaking its promises to keep workers safe and then blaming the worker when a preventable injury occurred," David Schmid of Stark & Stark said in a news release on the settlement. "We always believed this contractor paid lip service to safety and failed to follow its own safety manual and federal safety regulations, and in the end we had the evidence to back it up."
3 minute read
By Alex Anteau | May 29, 2024
"The mutual combat doctrine arose back in the mid-1990s. And since that period of time, there have been maybe seven or eight cases that have worked their way through the appellate courts," the plaintiff-appellants argued. "All those cases have one thing in common. The combatants … had absolutely no connection whatsoever with the establishment."
5 minute read
By Charles Toutant | May 29, 2024
After the closing was announced, the scene that followed was allegedly "nothing less than utter chaos," with suitcases and garbage bags everywhere, causing extreme distress to the displaced residents, plaintiffs lawyer Paul da Costa claimed.
6 minute read
By Charles Toutant | May 29, 2024
The company's stance was an apparent attempt to gain leverage in settlement negotiations and convince the plaintiff to accept a nominal settlement, the plaintiff's lawyer said.
4 minute read
By Emily Cousins | May 28, 2024
"The (prejudgment remedy) is what triggered the conversation for us to be able to get the defendant to pay something above and beyond the $1 million policy, because all other avenues were leading back to the $1 million policy itself," plaintiffs counsel Christopher Cramer said.
3 minute read
By Aleeza Furman | May 28, 2024
In an order entered just three days after the parties submitted their post-trial briefs, Judge Carmella Jacquinto of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas rejected arguments from the defendant that the jury's award for pain and suffering was too large.
4 minute read
By ALM Staff | May 25, 2024
New York Mets fan Alexander Swanson sued the team after he took a hit to the eye from a rolled up T-shirt fired from a cannon during a June 2019…
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