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Publication Date: 2020-11-16
Practice Area: Damages
Industry: Construction
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Olson
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Case Number: 20-1249
Appellants challenged trial court's damages award in action over defective home construction and court found appellants did not present any evidence of diminution in value and there was no error in trial court's award of damages based on the costs of repair. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2020-11-09
Practice Area: Damages
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Panella
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Case Number: 20-1218
Trial court properly awarded appellant $7,500 for value of tools in a conversion action and trial court did not depreciate the value of the tools simply because they were used for a hobby in its decision finding appellant's valuation of the tools was not credible. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2020-10-26
Practice Area: Damages
Industry: Real Estate
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Cannon
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Case Number: 20-1158
Trial court erred in sustaining preliminary objections to private/public nuisance claim arising from diversion of floodplain waters by adjoining landowner where such claims could be brought independent of, or as an alternative to, administrative or statutory remedies held by the aggrieved property owner. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.
Publication Date: 2020-08-24
Practice Area: Damages
Industry: Health Care
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
Judge: Judge Varricchio
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Case Number: 20-0839
Plaintiffs were entitled to a new trial limited to damages in this medical malpractice case where the jury verdict awarding them$39,000 for past medical expenses but zero damages for pain and suffering, future medical expenses or loss of consortium shocked the court's conscience. The court granted plaintiffs' motion for a new trial.
Publication Date: 2020-08-10
Practice Area: Damages
Industry: Education | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Covey
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Case Number: 20-0860
Trial court erred in finding that the vehicle liability exception to governmental immunity did not apply to fire department's pumping of water from a flooded road because fire department controlled the parts of the pumper truck that removed and redirected water from the roadway, fire department thus "operated" the vehicle and the vehicle liability exception applied. Reversed.
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Publication Date: 2020-06-22
Practice Area: Damages
Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Marston
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Case Number: 20-0642
City's demolition of unsafe structures on plaintiff's property did not constitute due process violation where city had adequate investigation and notice procedures in place and failure to get notice to plaintiff did not itself constitute a policy or custom. Defendant's motion for summary judgment granted.
Publication Date: 2020-05-25
Practice Area: Damages
Industry: Automotive
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
Judge: District Judge Horan
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Case Number: 20-0520
The statutory time period for defendant car manufacturer to act upon plaintiffs' proposed dealership sale, as set forth in §12(b) (5) of the Board of Vehicles Act, only began to run upon manufacturer's receipt of allrequired information, not upon the initial submission of the proposal. The commonwealth court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment in part.
Publication Date: 2020-05-04
Practice Area: Damages
Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Kearney
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Case Number: 20-0451
In this case of first impression, the district court read the federal sex trafficking act as imposing civil liability should a jury find that a business benefitted from participating in a venture it knew or should have known engaged in sex trafficking and that plaintiff's allegations against the defendant hotel franchisor were sufficient to survive a motion to dismiss. The district court denied in part defendant's motion to dismiss.
Publication Date: 2020-01-20
Practice Area: Damages | Medical Malpractice
Industry: Health Care
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
Judge: Judge Nealon
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Case Number: 20-0020
Plaintiff pled a viable claim for punitive damages against the defendant health care provider based on vicarious liability where the provider allegedly had actual knowledge of the wrongful conduct of one of its agents, a doctor, and nevertheless allowed such conduct to occur. The court overruled defendant's preliminary objection.
Publication Date: 2019-12-23
Practice Area: Damages
Industry: Health Care | Manufacturing
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Powell
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Case Number: 19-1433
The trial court allowed plaintiff to recover punitive damages in this products liability suit involving a pelvic mesh device where the defendant manufacturer did not report adverse events to the Food and Drug Administration, as required, and denied defendants' motion to reduce the jury's substantial verdict for plaintiff. The trial court recommended affirmance.
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