Maryclaire Dale

January 31, 2012 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - At least four lawsuits blaming the NFL for concussion-related dementia and brain disease will be consolidated in Philadelphia, and more could follow.A U.S. judicial panel approved requests Tuesday by the NFL and plaintiffs lawyers to try similar cases before Senior U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody in Philadelphia.

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October 15, 2009 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - A jury ordered GlaxoSmithKline to pay $2.5 million to a woman whose son was born with serious heart defects after she took the antidepressant Paxil during her pregnancy.The closely watched verdict handed down Tuesday in Philadelphia was the first of about 600 similar cases pending across the country that blame Paxil for heart problems and other birth defects.

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May 29, 2009 | Daily Report Online

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January 19, 2012 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - A third lawsuit has been filed in Philadelphia by retired NFL players over brain injuries allegedly caused by on-field concussions, a week before U.S. judges decide whether to consolidate similar cases filed around the country.At least eight similar lawsuits have been filed in New York, New Jersey, Georgia and Florida.

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September 11, 2008 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - A federal appeals court has upheld a $183 million malpractice award against accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers stemming from audits of a collapsed insurance company.The money will go to policy holders, claimants and other creditors of Ambassador Insurance Co., which was deemed insolvent and seized by Vermont's insurance department in 1983.

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January 14, 2010 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - A longtime U.N. weapons inspector who blamed a 2001 sex-sting arrest on his criticism of the Iraq war has again been charged in an online child-sex case, and this time he was caught on camera.Scott Ritter, 48, of Delmar, N.Y., engaged in a sexually graphic online chat with an undercover police officer posing as a 15-year-old girl nearly a year ago, police in northeastern Pennsylvania said.

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August 13, 2009 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - A seldom-employed psychopath was sentenced Wednesday to spend the rest of his life in prison for making a huge cache of child pornography that shows him sexually assaulting a dozen children, including infants at a girlfriend's in-home day care.The FBI found John Jackey Worman with more than 1 million images and 11,000 videos of child pornography when they arrested him in suburban Philadelphia in 2007.

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November 25, 2009 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - A gym owner-turned-investment fund manager was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that left investors short $35 million once the fraud unraveled.Joseph Forte, 53, of Broomall tried to boost his social status by accumulating wealth and pledging large gifts to private schools and charities in the Philadelphia area, both sides agree.

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November 11, 2009 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - Creditors trying to take over Philadelphia's two major newspapers at a bankruptcy auction next week must bid in cash, not with the millions owed them, a federal judge said Tuesday.The decision overturns a bankruptcy court ruling that seemed likely to give The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News to creditors by year's end.

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November 16, 2007 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - A Philadelphia woman is seeking class action status for a lawsuit accusing HR Block, Intuit and other tax software makers of overcharging consumers who pay to file their taxes online.The class, if approved, could number tens of millions of people, according to lawyers who filed the federal lawsuit this week in Philadelphia.

By Maryclaire Dale

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