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  • Wiggins v. Laboratory Corp. of Am. Holdings

    Publication Date: 2024-11-01
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
    Industry: E-Commerce | Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Beetlestone
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 24-0648

    The court granted defendant's motion to compel individual arbitration of plaintiffs' claims alleging on behalf of a putative class that defendant shared sensitive patient health information with Google in violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act under the Federal Arbitration Act and to stay the case pending the outcome of the individual proceedings.

  • Pugh v. CHHS Hosp. Co., LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-11-01
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Fletman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 01768

    Plaintiff sought class certification in her action alleging violation of the Philadelphia Fair Criminal Record Screening Standards Ordinance. The court granted the motion, certifying plaintiff's class to consist of all persons who were asked a question regarding a criminal conviction during defendants' online job application process for a specified period after enactment of the Ban the Box Law in 2016.

  • Vail v. Dermatology & Mohs Surgery Ctr

    Publication Date: 2024-11-01
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Brody
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 24-1535

    Plaintiff sued five defendants, three of which were corporate entities that she alleged were collectively her former employer, for breach of contract, wrongful termination, gender and age discrimination, and retaliation in violation of Title VII. Plaintiff requested a declaratory judgment invalidating restrictive covenants in the agreement. She also alleged that all defendants violated the Pennsylvania Whistleblower Law, the Pennsylvania Wage Payment and Collection Law, made unauthorized use of her likeness, and were unjustly enriche

  • Brooks v. Tr. of the Univ. of Pennsylvania (Workers' Comp. Appeal Bd.)

    Publication Date: 2024-11-01
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Ceisler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 936 C.D. 2023

    Petitioner claimant sought review of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board's order affirming a workers' compensation judge's decision which granted employer's petition to reduce claimant's workers' compensation benefits. The court affirmed, holding that neither Workers' Compensation Act Section 306(b)(2) nor associated regulations required disqualification of a vocational expert who inaccurately included expired credentials on written correspondence in claimant's case.

  • Sangston v. Unemployment Comp. Bd. of Review

    Publication Date: 2024-11-01
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Covey
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    Case Number: 1095 C.D. 2023

    Evidence was insufficient to support finding of willful misconduct where the record lacked evidence disproving that employee's violation of a rule was unintentional or that the employee's religious exemption request failed to comply with the employer's policies. Order of the UCBR reversed.

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  • Gilbert v. UPMC Williamsport

    Publication Date: 2024-10-25
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Linhardt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: CV 21-00, 169

    Additional defendants filed preliminary objections to defendants' joinder complaint in plaintiff's professional liability action asserting improper and negligent pre- and post-natal treatment to herself and child and court found permitting joinder here, where the statutes of limitations on the claims will not expire until several years in the future and, in fact, had not yet begun to run, seemed to be the most sensible approach and the joinder complaint was sufficiently clear to enable additional defendant doctor to prepare his defens

  • Payne v. Unemployment Comp. Bd. of Review

    Publication Date: 2024-10-25
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leavitt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 900 C.D. 2023

    The court affirmed the determination of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review denying claimant's application for unemployment benefits because she voluntarily terminated her employment without a necessitous and compelling cause.

  • Kieser v. Beyer

    Publication Date: 2024-10-25
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Lindhart
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: CV 23-00, 923

    Plaintiffs objected to certain new matter in defendants' answers to a medical malpractice action and court found one paragraph of the new matter, when read with another paragraph, properly asserted UPMC defendant had no control over doctor who allegedly caused plaintiff's injuries but the other paragraphs asserting affirmative defenses of contributory/comparative negligence, assumption of the risk, release, accord and satisfaction, or set-off and that plaintiffs' damages were caused by the natural progression of plaintiff's medical co

  • Estate of Dougherty v. Lamb

    Publication Date: 2024-10-25
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Bright
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 00821

    In this § 1925(a) opinion, the court justified its decision granting judgment to appellants for the investment funds and to appellee for title to decedent's residence in a dispute between surviving siblings.

  • CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-22
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Biotechnology | Health Care
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Shwartz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 23-2427

    Court remanded case where district court did not review the evidence as to all advertisements at issue in a Lanham Act false advertising case.