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Aleeza Furman

Aleeza Furman

Aleeza Furman is a Philadelphia-based litigation reporter with The Legal Intelligencer. Contact her at [email protected].

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August 16, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Third Circuit Breaks With Sister Courts in Ruling on Monsanto's Preemption Arguments

While the Third Circuit held that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act preempted plaintiffs' state failure-to-warn claims, prior rulings from the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits on the same issue rejected Monsanto's preemption arguments.

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August 15, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Federal Judge Sanctions Pittsburgh Firm for 'Campaign of Deception' in Debt Collection Disputes

"Counsel are well advised to heed one lesson from this experience in particular, among the many," Bissoon wrote. "This court is immune from gaslighting. It will not work, and attempts will be met with great disfavor."

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August 14, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Appeals Court Rejects 'Statutory Employer' Challenge to $15.5M Worker Injury Verdict

Mongeluzzi said the panel's holding on the Statutory Employer Doctrine's application was fact-specific, but the doctrine itself is under scrutiny beyond this particular case.

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August 08, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Gas Station Workers Reach $18.5M Settlement Over Fatal Tank Explosion

"Oftentimes in explosion cases, you have federal agencies that do really thorough investigations," Howell said. "In this one we were just told essentially, 'It was an accidental explosion involving a shop vac.' We got nothing else."

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August 08, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Appeals Court Shuts Down Bid for Clarity Amid 'Mallory' Uncertainty

Defendant Syngenta Crop Protection had urged the Superior Court to permit its appeal, arguing that there was an "urgent need for clarity concerning the constitutional and jurisdictional questions left in Mallory's wake."

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August 07, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Strategy Sharing and Judicial Elections: What the Pa. Association for Justice's New President Has Planned for the Year Ahead

"We always keep our eye on bills that are being proposed. And again, our goal is to make sure whatever laws are passed are fair and equitable to everybody, not just the insurance industry or the hospital associations," Luxenberg Garbett Kelly George partner Lawrence Kelly said.

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August 07, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Incoming Pittsburgh Civil Division Leader Aims to Bring Trial Scheduling Under Court Control

"You don't know until you try. I know it was attempted before and it didn't happen," Hertzberg said.

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August 06, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Phila. Jury Hits Temple Hospital With $44.9M Verdict Over Patient's Post-Discharge Choking Injuries

In order to prove the hospital's negligence, plaintiffs counsel had to refute their own client's version of events.

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August 02, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Philips Sues Lab Over Allegedly Faulty Research That Spurred Major Breathing Machine Recall

"Philips RS has spent hundreds of millions of dollars toward this recall and would have pursued a different and more focused recall had PSN not made its serious mistakes and greatly overestimated the potential threat to patients," the plaintiffs claimed.

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July 31, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Supreme Court to Weigh Whether Estates May Challenge Faulty Death Certificate Findings

"More fundamentally, before you think about a malpractice suit or a wrongful death suit, it enables somebody to have an avenue to get the judiciary involved when it comes to a point when the coroner or medical examiner are acting absolutely unreasonably," Podraza said.

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