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: 2022-10-24
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Manufacturing
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Fletman
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 190301223
Court denied appellant's appeal objecting to the court's order granting summary judgment on appellant's claims in a wrongful death action arising out of asbestos exposure. Although appellant claimed that the decedent was exposed to asbestos while working for appellee, no evidence was produced. Therefore, the court found that appellant's claims were speculative at best and failed to create a genuine issue of material fact.
Publication Date: 2022-10-10
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Construction | Real Estate
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
Judge: District Judge Haines
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 3:21-cv-197
Property rehabilitators, defendants in negligence and wrongful death action, moved to dismiss arguing non-party T.T. Jones owned the property and was an indispensable party and court found there was dispute as to ownership, defendants' repair and rehabilitation of the property and its electrical system would have occurred before the alleged transfer of the property and defendants failed to show Jones as a necessary or indispensable party. Motion denied.
Publication Date: 2022-10-03
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Real Estate
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Williamson
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 5117 CIVIL 2020
Court granted motion to dismiss filed by property association defendants in a wrongful death claim where plaintiffs alleged defendants negligently failed to ensure a bus stop outside of their gated community was safe. The court granted the motion on the grounds that defendants had no control over where the bus stops were installed and owed no duty to plaintiff on these grounds.
Publication Date: 2022-10-03
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Real Estate
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Williamson
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 5117 CIVIL 2020
Court granted motion to dismiss filed by property association defendants in a wrongful death claim where plaintiffs alleged defendants negligently failed to ensure a bus stop outside of their gated community was safe. The court granted the motion on the grounds that defendants had no control over where the bus stops were installed and owed no duty to plaintiff on these grounds.
Publication Date: 2022-10-03
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: State and Local Government | Transportation
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Williamson
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 5117 CIVIL 2020
Court granted motion to dismiss filed by property association defendants in a wrongful death claim where plaintiffs alleged defendants negligently located and designed a dangerous bus stop. The court granted the motion on the grounds that plaintiffs' claims were barred under the doctrine of sovereign immunity due to precedent holding immunity was only waived in instances where defendant government agency constructed a negligent condition.
Law Journal Press | Digital Book
Authors: Michael R. Griffinger, Paul F. Cullum III
View this BookView more book results for the query "*"
Publication Date: 2022-09-05
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Health Care
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Marston
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 21-5148-KSM
Defendants moved to dismiss plaintiff executrix's action over her mother's death from COVID-19 while residing at defendant's facility and court found plaintiff's claims did not arise out of defendant's use of covered countermeasures, but out of defendant's non-use of countermeasures, and defendant was not shielded from liability by the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act or the Pennsylvania emergency management services code. Motion denied.
Publication Date: 2022-07-18
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Transportation
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
Judge: District Judge Kane
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 22-0797
Court declined to dismiss punitive damages claim where defendant driver was facing pending criminal charges of homicide by vehicle and careless driving and plaintiffs had sufficiently pled that defendants' actions leading to the fatal accident constituted a reckless disregard of the substantial risk of serious injury. Defendants' partial motion to dismiss denied, motion for a more definite statement granted in part and denied in part.
Publication Date: 2022-06-27
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Manufacturing
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Marston
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 22-0717
Court approved a proposed settlement and settlement allocation in plaintiffs' negligence, wrongful death and survival action over death of a firefighter allegedly due to defective tubing for propane gas and court found the settlement and allocation were adequate, fair and reasonable. Settlement approved.
Publication Date: 2022-06-20
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Health Care
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Marston
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 22-0688
Defendants moved to strike plaintiff's amended complaint and plaintiff moved to remand her action over her mother's death while a resident in defendant facility and court found plaintiff impermissibly added individual defendants to defeat diversity, dismissed the action against those individuals and declined to remand. Motion granted in part, motion denied.
Publication Date: 2022-06-20
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Transportation
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
Judge: Judge Nealon
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 22-0580
The court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment because the record did not clearly show that the statute of limitations barred plaintiff's claims, and issues of fact remained with respect to the recovery of damages.
Legal Speak is a weekly podcast that makes sense of what’s happening in the legal industry.
1 minute read