• Morrisey v. St. Joseph's Preparatory Sch.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-29
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Education
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Erdos
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 190900684

    Appellant former teacher appealed the court's dismissal of his defamation and tortious interference claims against his school's former principal. Appellant further appealed the court's judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of his former employer, appellee school, and appellee school president. The court requested that its judgment on the jury verdict be affirmed and the case remanded for further proceedings with respect to appellant's defamation claim.

  • Wheatley v. Pyramid Hotel Group

    Publication Date: 2024-01-29
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Covey
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1017 C.D. 2022

    Board properly denied claimant's petition as untimely filed because claimant did not appeal to the board, within 20 days of receiving WCJ's August 2021 order, and request that the board make its March 25, 2021 decision final so he could appeal to the court. Affirmed.

  • Thorson v. EDDW, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-01-29
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Retail
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stabile
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 3059 EDA 2022

    Trial properly applied an adverse inference to one appellant's failure to testify at trial in employment contract action because appellants' counsel did not inform court of appellant's medical condition until after trial started and never asked for an accommodation until after the verdict and appellees' expert witness was qualified to testify as to the value of the company. Affirmed.

  • De Piero v. Pennsylvania State Univ.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-29
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Education
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Beetlestone
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 23-2281

    Defendants moved to dismiss plaintiff's complaint alleging racial discrimination, hostile work environment and related claims arising from defendants' race-training programs and requirements in a university academic setting. The court granted in part and denied in part defendants' motion.

  • Mercy Catholic Med. Ctr. v. Ryan

    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Cannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 554 C.D. 2022

    Board erred in reversing Worker's Compensation Judge's denial of that part of claimant's workers' compensation petition related to aggravation of her preexisting anxiety and depression because the causal connection between claimant's shoulder injury and the alleged aggravation of her preexisting anxiety and depression were not well pleaded and employer did not lose its ability to contest that issue by filing a late answer to the claim petition. Reversed.

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  • Muhammad v. Kelly Serv. Global LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-01-01
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Education | Recruitment and Staffing
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 964 C.D. 2022

    Claimant argued Workers' Compensation Judge's decision granting claimant's claim petition for a closed period, denying her penalty petition and granting employer's termination petition did not meet the reasoned decision requirements of Section 422(a) of the Workers' Compensation Act and court found board did not address that claim and vacated and remanded for board to consider the issue. Vacated.

  • Precht v. Unemployment Comp. Bd. of Review

    Publication Date: 2024-01-01
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Consulting | Health Care | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 710 C.D. 2021

    Unemployment benefits claimant appealed the denial of benefits on the grounds he was self-employed and court found no error in Unemployment Compensation Board of Review's reasoning that the positive steps analysis was applicable to a determination of whether an individual was self-employed in a stand-alone context under the law after he had been separated from his employment and, under that analysis, claimant was self-employed under the law. Affirmed.

  • Searfoss v. Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2023-12-25
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Cannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 145 M.D. 2023

    Claimant filed a complaint sounding in contract, quasi-contract, and mandamus to enforce an alleged compromise and release agreement in workers' compensation case and court held there was no valid and enforceable C&R agreement as a matter of law. Complaint dismissed.

  • Needham v. Chubb Corp.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-19
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-1829

    Plaintiffs appealed the adverse summary judgment entered by the district court.

  • Premium Transp. Staffing, Inc. v. Welker

    Publication Date: 2023-12-18
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Recruitment and Staffing | Transportation
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leavitt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1329 C.D. 2022

    Board erred in affirming Workers' Compensation Judge and finding claimant truck driver's "mental/mental" injury arose from an abnormal working condition, a fire in a tractor trailer truck, because claimant acknowledged he could anticipate a truck fire, had been trained how to respond to a fire and the relatively minor fire that was quickly extinguished was not an "extraordinarily unusual and distressing" employment event for a truck driver. Reversed.