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Publication Date: 2021-05-31
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Retail
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge McLaughlin
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Case Number: 21-0606
Trial court erred in permitting jury to determine whether or not defendant was negligent since he had been criminally convicted of voluntary manslaughter in killing decedents on defendant's father's property but did not err in allowing jury to determine whether gun shop was liable, in directing a verdict in favor of defendant's father or in allowing jury to determine whether decedents were comparatively negligent. Vacated and remanded.
Publication Date: 2021-04-26
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Transportation
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stevens
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Case Number: 21-0456
Court dismissed Federal Employers' Liability Act case on forum non conveniens grounds where worksite and potential witnesses were located outside of the state, providing "weighty reasons" to exercise discretion to dismiss the case. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2021-04-26
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Transportation
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stevens
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Case Number: 21-0452
Greater number of witnesses residing outside the jurisdiction, plus the need to possibly conduct site viewings, along with other private and public factors supported trial court's exercise of discretion to dismiss on forum non conveniens grounds. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2021-04-12
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
Judge: Judge Nealon
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Case Number: 21-0325
Plaintiffs were not entitled to a new trial because the verdict was not against the weight of evidence, the jury instructions were adequate, and certain evidence was admissible under a hearsay exception.
Publication Date: 2021-03-29
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Health Care
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Wolson
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Case Number: 21-0334
Court struck affirmative defenses from an answer where defendant failed to assert any allegations or cite to any facts or evidence that would give rise to a good faith basis to plead the defense. Defendant's affirmative defenses struck without prejudice.
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Publication Date: 2020-12-28
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Federal Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Marston
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Case Number: 20-1411
Administrators of decedent's estate moved for approval of the settlement in their wrongful death act and survival action over decedent's death in VA medical center and court found the settlement and its allocation were reasonable. Petition granted.
Publication Date: 2020-12-07
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Energy
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 20-1328
Jury erred in awarding no non-economic damages to surviving spouse who testified as to the duration and quality of her marriage with decedent. Order of the superior court affirmed in part and reversed in part, case remanded.
Publication Date: 2020-11-09
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Education | Entertainment and Leisure
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge King
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Case Number: 20-1212
Defendants waived arbitration by failing to produce the purported arbitration agreement and instead engaging in a year of venue-related litigation before ultimately filing preliminary objections to compel arbitration, demonstrating an intentional engagement with the judicial process rather than an effort to seek arbitration. Order of the trial court affirmed in part and reversed in part, case remanded.
Publication Date: 2020-11-02
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
Judge: District Judge Schwab
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Case Number: 20-1187
Pennsylvania Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act could not immunize state or municipal employees from their alleged violations of federal law, such that defendant employees could not obtain dismissal of state wrongful death and survival causes of action based on violations of federal law. Defendants' motions to strike and to dismiss denied.
Publication Date: 2020-10-05
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Matey
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Case Number: 20-1074
City not liable for fire department's negligence to advise responding firefighters of the presence of 911 callers who had been instructed by operators to remain inside their burning apartment building, as such negligence constituted an omission rather than affirmative act and could not rise to the level of deliberate indifference. Order of the district court affirmed.
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