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Publication Date: 2023-03-27
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Food and Beverage | Hospitality and Lodging | Real Estate
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Zulick
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Case Number: 5931 CV 2019
Fact issues precluded entry of summary judgment in favor of a restaurant franchisee, its landlord, and the landlord's property manager where a customer slipped and fell on black ice, a dangerous condition that defendants may have failed to detect and clear in the restaurant's parking lot. The court denied defendants' motions for summary judgment.
Publication Date: 2023-03-27
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Manufacturing | Transportation
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Gallagher
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Case Number: 5:21-cv-01353-JMG
Defendants moved to preclude two of plaintiff's expert's reports in his negligence and products liability action based on his injury from a truck liftgate and court found expert's report on excessive force was sufficiently reliable but other expert's report on alternative designs was not sufficiently supported to meet the reliability requirements. Motion granted in part and denied in part.
Publication Date: 2023-03-20
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Brody
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Case Number: 22-1601
A police officer demonstrated a reasonable inference that an online news outlet acted with actual malice where it erroneously included his identifiable photo in a story about another police officer who was accused of racial profiling. The trial court denied defendants' motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim.
Publication Date: 2023-03-20
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Federal Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Leeson
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Case Number: 5:21-cv-04953
Plaintiff sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act after a postal service vehicle truck her car and court found plaintiff failed to prove her migraines and related cognitive symptoms were causally related to the collision but did show collision caused sprain injuries to her arm, shoulder and neck, those injuries were not "serious" under the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law and court awarded medical costs, property damage and lost wages. Judgment for plaintiff.
Publication Date: 2023-03-20
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
Judge: District Judge Mannion
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Case Number: 3:19-2196
Defendant ski resort moved for summary judgment in plaintiff skier's personal injury action and court found there was a genuine dispute as to whether plaintiff was skiing on or off trail when the incident occurred and thus, whether the Pennsylvania Skier's Responsibility Act barred plaintiff's action, as to whether plaintiff received a lift ticket with the exculpatory release provision and plaintiff's evidence of a ditch in the ski trail raised an issue of material fact as to gross negligence. Motion denied.
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Publication Date: 2023-03-13
Practice Area: Personal Injury
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Foglietta
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Case Number: 03845
Failure to redact videotaped deposition testimony of a personal injury plaintiff's medical expert, who stated that jurors "can see" plaintiff's injury in medical imaging, did not warrant a declaration of mistrial where other admissible testimony made similar points and the court issued a prompt curative instruction admonishing the jury to disregard the testimony. The court denied defendant's post-trial motions seeking a new trial and related relief.
Publication Date: 2023-03-13
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Consumer Products | Manufacturing | Retail
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Pratter
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Case Number: 20-5382
Plaintiff and design company both moved to exclude the other parties' experts under rule 702 in plaintiffs negligence, strict liability design defect and failure to warn and breach of warranty action over a spring tension shower organizer that injured her and court found plaintiff's experts' opinions and testimony were admissible and their qualifications as to the engineering aspects of the design of the shower organizer were not in dispute and defendant's expert had appropriate grounds for his opinions as they related to the human fa
Publication Date: 2023-03-13
Practice Area: Personal Injury
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Allen
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Case Number: 00196
Evidence was sufficient for jury to decline to award tripping accident plaintiff non-economic damages as her subjective complaints were inconsistent with the objective medical evidence and her treatment was excessive in relation to the severity of the injury. Court recommended affirmance of its denial of plaintiff's motion for a new trial.
Publication Date: 2023-03-06
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Transportation
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
Judge: Judge Nealon
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Case Number: 22 CV 3250
A personal injury plaintiff's complaint could not state an independent cause of action for punitive damages. Plaintiff's allegations of wanton, willful and reckless conduct were sufficient, however, to support his corresponding general demand for recovery of punitive damages in his personal injury action. Defendants' preliminary objections sustained in part and overruled in part.
Publication Date: 2023-02-27
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Education | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Pratter
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Case Number: 22-2942
Defamation claims arising from published article dismissed where the article set forth admittedly true facts and then stated the authors' pure opinion and subjective characterization about plaintiff's underlying motivations. Defendants' motion to dismiss granted.
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