• O'Shea v. Loyalsock Rehab Ctr., LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-08-23
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Health Care | Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Carlucci
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2023-01142

    Court granted defendants' preliminary objections in part and denied them in part. Plaintiff was directed to file an amended complaint.

  • Hamilton v. Norristown State Hosp.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-23
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Beetlestone
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 23-4068

    Defendant employer sought summary judgment in plaintiff employee's action for retaliation, disparate treatment, and hostile work environment. The court denied the motion where defendant failed to establish the absence of a genuine issue of material fact in light of plaintiff's evidence of repeated and pervasive discriminatory conduct by plaintiff's supervisors and coworkers.

  • Melendez v. Mo

    Publication Date: 2024-08-16
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Levin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 01939

    Defendants filed post-trial motions after a jury awarded medical malpractice damages in favor of plaintiff. The court denied the motions, holding in pertinent part that defendants' requests for judgment notwithstanding the verdict were waived for improper motion practice and briefing.

  • Hagans v. Hosp. of the Univ. of Pennsylvania

    Publication Date: 2024-08-16
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Bright
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 7280

    The court urged the Superior Court to affirm its denial of post-trial motions in a medical negligence action arising from what a jury found were catastrophic injuries to a newborn baby resulting from the negligent labor and delivery care provided by defendants that delayed the Caesarean delivery of the baby. The jury awarded damages of $182,737,791.00, the largest verdict in a Pennsylvania medical negligence case.

  • Malak v. Maxim Healthcare Serv. (Workers' Comp. Appeal Bd.)

    Publication Date: 2024-08-16
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Covey
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 396 C.D. 2021

    Workers' Compensation Appeal Board erred in affirming the denial of a penalty petition seeking reimbursement of medical marijuana costs where neither the Medical Marijuana Act nor federal law prohibited a workers' compensation insurer or employer from reimbursing for reasonable and necessary medical marijuana treatment costs. Order of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board reversed.

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  • VNA of St. Luke's Home Health/Hospice, Inc. v. Ortiz

    Publication Date: 2024-08-09
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leadbetter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1312 C.D. 2022

    Worker's Compensation Appeal Board decision granting employer's modification petitions and denying claimant's request for litigation cost reimbursement affirmed. Board's order denying the employer's request to set aside the stipulation of facts reversed.

  • United States v. Sher

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

    Case Number: 23-2337

    Appellant Thomas Sher appealed his sentence for health care fraud and conspiracy.

  • Polanco v. Lehigh Valley Health Network, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-02
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
    Judge: Judge Nealon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2023 CV 1001

    Defendants pediatrician and hospital filed preliminary objections to plaintiffs' medical malpractice complaint alleging injuries to their newborn child. The court overruled the preliminary objections, concluding plaintiffs stated vicarious liability claims against defendants, stated prima facie malpractice claims with allegations of recklessness necessary to support a claim for punitive damages, and set out claims that were factually sufficient to inform defendant hospital of the claims it would have to defend.

  • Yurek v. Bauer

    Publication Date: 2024-08-02
    Practice Area: Damages
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Allegheny County
    Judge: Judge Hertzberg
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: GD18-12387

    Plaintiff and defendant cross-appealed the trial court's judgment on a jury verdict in plaintiff's action for personal injury. The court concluded that its judgment should be affirmed where, in pertinent part, it properly declined to reduce the jury's verdict for plaintiff's medical expenses pursuant to Act 6's cost containment provision because plaintiff's expenses were incurred for surgery outside Pennsylvania by a provider who was not a licensed provider in the Commonwealth.

  • Paydhealth, LLC v. Holcombe

    Publication Date: 2024-08-02
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Kenney
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2:24-00259

    Defendant moved to dismiss plaintiff's defamation claim for statements made at an industry conference and court found that although plaintiff was not a "limited public figure" and did not need to plead allegations that could lead to an inference that defendant acted with "actual malice"and, as a private figure who was bringing a defamation per se claim, did not need to plead facts that would support a finding of "special harm"plaintiff still needed to plead allegations that would support a finding of general damages. Motion granted.