Don’t forget you can visit MyAlerts to manage your alerts at any time.
92 results for '* topic:"Wrongful Death"' You can use Search Constraints to get even better search results
Publication Date: 2024-02-09
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Health Care | Hospitality and Lodging
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
Judge: Judge Nealon
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 2022 CV 1553
Defendant nursing care facility moved for dismissal or, alternatively, suppression of wrongful death plaintiff's evidence as spoliation sanctions for plaintiff's cremation of his mother's body. The court denied the motion where the cremation occurred some two months before an autopsy report revealed a potential professional liability cause of action against defendants, and where defendants had an opportunity to examine the mother's body, and other evidence was available to challenge plaintiff's claims. The court, however, authorized d
Publication Date: 2023-12-04
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Health Care
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stabile
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 1024 WDA 2022
Trial court properly dismissed executor's action against medical center parties that gave methadone to driver of car that killed decedent and court found trial court did not err in declining to impose a duty on the medical center parties. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2023-11-27
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Aerospace | Manufacturing
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Restrepo
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cynthia M. Devers, Devers Miska Law, Bala Cynwyd, PA for appellants.
for defendant: Andrea S. Brooks, Wilks Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE; John S. Bagby, Jr., Bagby & Associates, LLC, Paoli, PA for appellee.
Case Number: 22-1596
District court correctly applied General Aviation Revitalization Act's statute of repose to product liability wrongful death claims, where federal regulations limited rebuilding and selling of aircraft parts to aviation manufacturers and thus claims arising from rebuilding of aircraft engine part were claims against a "manufacturer."
Publication Date: 2023-11-20
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Transportation
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
Judge: District Judge Mehalchick
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 3:21-CV-01948
Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act preempted state law negligence wrongful death claims against freight broker where imposing duties of care under state negligence laws would require brokers to perform additional duties outside the usual scope of the broker industry. Defendant's motion for summary judgment granted.
Publication Date: 2023-10-09
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Health Care | Hospitality and Lodging
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
Judge: Judge Varricchio
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 2020-C-0152
Defendants filed a petition to compel arbitration in plaintiff's wrongful death suit alleging professional negligence at a skilled nursing facility. The court denied the petition where no evidence suggested plaintiff, who signed decedent's admission papers, had authority to execute a voluntary arbitration agreement that was included in the paperwork.
Law Journal Press | Digital Book
Authors: Gary L. Brown
View this BookView more book results for the query "*"
Publication Date: 2023-10-02
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Transportation
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge McHugh
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 23-3005
Court remanded wrongful death case to state court where plaintiff's citation to federal trucking regulations did not confer federal question jurisdiction as those regulations merely served as evidence of defendants' alleged negligence rather than implicating federal law. Plaintiff's motion to remand granted.
Publication Date: 2023-09-18
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge McCullough
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 1081 C.D. 2022
Although PennDOT and residential development had no control over safety conditions of local transit authority's bus stop, the trial court erred in granting the authority summary judgment where there were allegations that its driver's use of high beams blinded another driver who struck decedent. Order of the trial court affirmed in part and reversed and remanded in part.
Publication Date: 2023-08-14
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry:
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Presiding Judge Stevens
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 2267 EDA 2021 Appeal from
Trial court erred in granting plaintiff's motion to compel discovery in wrongful death and survival action brought by estate of foster parent murdered by foster child against foster family care agency and court found foster parent was not a person entitled to information from the foster care case record under §3130.44(d), ordered disclosure only of child's records as permitted by §6307(b) of the Juvenile Act and excluded any mental health treatment records and remanded trial court's order with respect to certain interrogatories for fu
Publication Date: 2023-07-17
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
Judge: Judge Johnson
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 2022-C-0060
Defendant transportation authority filed preliminary objections alleging that a wrongful death plaintiff failed to sufficiently plead exceptions to governmental immunity. The court overruled the preliminary objections.
Publication Date: 2023-06-05
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Construction | State and Local Government
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 6 WAP 2022
Contractor could be held liable for poor workmanship that caused a dangerous or defective condition of property, even though the contractor no longer had possession of the property, the dangerous condition was known to the property owner, and the hazard was open and obvious to third parties. Order of the commonwealth court affirmed.
Legal Speak is a weekly podcast that makes sense of what’s happening in the legal industry.
1 minute read