• Austin v. Lehigh & Northampton Transp. Auth.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-09
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Construction | Transportation
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 355 C.D. 2022

    Personal injury plaintiff appealed the trial court's entry of judgment against him. The court affirmed, holding that the trial court did not err in refusing plaintiff's motion to sever his personal injury suit from his employer's consolidated property damage case where evidence of the underlying accident was largely the same, although the parties' rights and liabilities differed.

  • Polit-Baquero v. Walmart Stores E., L.P.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-08
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Chagares
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 23-1287

    Plaintiff appealed the summary judgment dismissal of her complaint.

  • Lewis-Hagins v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2024-02-02
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Cunningham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 210300058

    Premises liability defendants appealed the court's order granting reconsideration and vacating its earlier order granting defendants' motion for summary judgment. The court concluded that its decision should be affirmed where plaintiff's motion for reconsideration demonstrated the existence of a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether plaintiff saw a defect in a curb before she tripped and fell.

  • Smith v. Metro P.C.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-02
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Anders
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2125 EDA 2023

    Plaintiff appealed the court's order dismissing her complaint as frivolous and for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where plaintiff offered no specific facts to support her alleged claim of fraud.

  • Tyson v. City of Philadelphia

    Publication Date: 2024-01-29
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Retail | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 519 C.D. 2022

    Trial court erred in administratively dismissing an action for failure to prosecute because one of the defendants in the case had filed a voluntary bankruptcy proceeding and the bankruptcy stay had to be construed to apply to dismissals. Vacated.

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  • Pritchard v. Meintel

    Publication Date: 2024-01-29
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 49 C.D. 2022

    Common pleas erred in finding the real estate exception did not apply and sovereign immunity barred appellant inmate's action for his slip and fall because, in alleging defendants failed to maintain the slip-resistant surface on which he slipped, inmate adequately alleged injury caused by a dangerous condition of Commonwealth real estate but his negligence claims unconnected to negligent maintenance were barred. Reversed in part and affirmed in part.

  • Olar v. Bennett

    Publication Date: 2024-01-15
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 703 WDA 2022

    Trial court erred in giving defendant's requested sudden emergency doctrine instruction and in denying plaintiff's requested driver's duty of care instruction in case where defendant driver struck pedestrians because the evidence did not support a determination that defendant was "confronted with a sudden and unforeseeable occurrence." Reversed.

  • Dominiak v. Petsmart, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Retail
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Perez
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 23-4

    Pet supply store owner may have had actual or constructive notice of a puddle of pet urine where store staff admitted that pets urinated in the store frequently enough to create a recurring hazard. Defendant's motion for summary judgment denied.

  • Gibson v. Mason

    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leadbetter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1275 C.D. 2022

    Trial court erred in denying inmate's in forma pauperis petition and holding his claims were frivolous because inmate's complaint was timely, he did not have to comply with the statutory notice provision in 42 Pa. C.S. §5522(a)(1) and factual development was needed to determine if correction officers' alleged actions were within the scope of their employment so as to entitle them to sovereign immunity. Reversed.

  • Grinnage v. SEPTA

    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government | Transportation
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Crumlish
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 200401372

    The court, in a §1925(a) opinion, urged affirmance of its order denying Southeast Pennsylvania Transportation Authority's motion for post-trial relief following a jury verdict in favor of a SEPTA passenger who suffered a tear in his bicep muscle when the bus he was riding on as a standing passenger exhibited extraordinary movement that was not covered by the "jerk and jolt" defense urged by SEPTA.