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  • Hammons v. Ethicon, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-02
    Practice Area: Mass Torts
    Industry: Health Care | Manufacturing
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Baer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1189

    Superior court properly found specific jurisdiction was proper, in plaintiff's action over injuries from a medical device manufactured from mesh woven in Pennsylvania, based on defendant's involvement in the manufacturing of the mesh in Pennsylvania. Affirmed.

  • Mwimbwa v. CSL Plasma. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-02
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge DuBois
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1192

    Defendants moved to dismiss plaintiff's Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Pennsylvania Human Relations Act and Pennsylvania Whistleblower Act action alleging sex and age based discrimination, failure to accommodate and retaliation and court found she failed to set forth sufficient allegations to establish any of her claims. Motion granted.

  • Rettzo v. Saul

    Publication Date: 2020-10-26
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
    Judge: District Judge Arbuckle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1167

    Commissioner properly found plaintiff was not entitled to disability insurance benefits and Administrative Law Judge did not fail to consider her seizures since treatment records said her epilepsy was under excellent control, ALJ properly refused to incorporate into plaintiff's residual functional capacity assessment her testimony that she spent most of her day with her legs elevated to alleviate knee pain, her "anxiety" was a non-medically determinable impairment and was properly excluded from the RFC assessment and there was no medi

  • Record v. Maybrook-P Orangeville Opco, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-10-26
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
    Judge: District Judge Brann
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1164

    Defendant moved for summary judgment in plaintiff's action for discrimination, failure to accommodate and retaliation in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and court found plaintiff failed to produce any evidence she ever requested a reasonable accommodation or engaged in other protected activity. Motion granted.

  • Watson v. Drexel Univ.

    Publication Date: 2020-10-26
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Education
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Robreno
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1169

    Defendant moved for summary judgment on plaintiff's Americans with Disabilities Act, Pennsylvania Human Relations Act and Family and Medical Leave Act claims alleging a failure to accommodate and disability discrimination and court found defendant engaged in the interactive process as a matter of law, plaintiff was not terminated because of her disability, she provided no evidence to suggest defendant's legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for her termination was pretextual and her FMLA claim because she failed to file the appropriate

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  • Fausnaught v. UPMC Susquehanna

    Publication Date: 2020-10-19
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Linhardt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1043

    Plaintiff stated a claim for negligence, but the court dismissed her remaining claims involving alleged statutory violations and negligence per se.

  • Tischler v. Acuity Vision, P.C.

    Publication Date: 2020-10-19
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
    Judge: Judge Nealon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1019

    Plaintiff was entitled to conduct discovery on the issue of the defendant's potential corporate liability in this medical malpractice suit arising from an eye surgery where the complaint did make it clear or free from doubt that the defendant eye-care center could not be held liable for corporate negligence. The overruled defendant's demurrer.

  • Genis v. Avesis Third Party Adm'rs, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-10-19
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Bartle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1134

    Fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and tortious interference claims not dismissed under the gist of the action doctrine where defendants' alleged tortious actions did not arise out of the contractual duties they owed to plaintiff. Defendants' motion to dismiss denied in part and granted in part.

  • Latka v. Rieder

    Publication Date: 2020-09-28
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
    Judge: Judge Nealon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-0928

    A podiatrist was required to properly document his encounters with patients, so the court denied defendant's motion in limine regarding testimony about his lack of documentation. The court granted plaintiff's motion in limine on the issue of informed consent, but denied other aspects of her motion.

  • Geness v. Admin. Office of Pennsylvania Courts

    Publication Date: 2020-09-21
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Restrepo
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1025

    Americans with Disabilities Act claim failed where there was no abrogation of state court system's sovereign immunity as plaintiff failed to identify the services and activities that the administrative agency overseeing the state courts had excluded plaintiff from due to his disability. Order of the district court reversed.