Verdicts & Settlements

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Two Philadelphia attorneys have secured a $10.34 million settlement for a Lehigh County electrician who suffered second- and third-degree burns during an electrical explosion at Lucent Technologies' Allentown plant.

After working out the details of a workers' compensation lien with Judge Sandra Moss yesterday in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, attorneys finalized a settlement that secures $9 million for an employee of a contractor who suffered electric shock when the loader he was operating came into contact with uninsulated power lines.

Richard L. Jones filed suit against West Penn Power Company, Cargotek, Larry's Homes of Pa., Inc. Walker Excavating and C&W Builders after sustaining when the boom of a truck he was operating struck a live overhead electrical wire.

A worker who was severely burned when his construction crew drilled into an underground power line in West Philadelphia has settled with PECO Energy and three other parties for $4 million.

Four companies will pay $3.45 million total to a 47-year-old former electrician to settle a lawsuit he filed after being shocked by an overhead high-tension wire at a construction site in Harrison, N.J., lawyers said.

In October 2007 Ariosto Zuniga and Juraci Sobreira were helping to set up a scaffolding system at a housing development project in West Norriton, Pa., according to the plaintiffs' pretrial memorandum. While erecting a 60-foot support pole for the system, the men lost control of the pole, and it fell and hit a nearby power line. Zuniga and Sobreira, who were holding onto the pole, received severe electric shocks; Zuniga suffered burns on his face, chest, arms, hands, legs and back, and Sobreira suffered burns on his hands and feet, according to the plaintiffs' memorandum.

On December 14, 1983, John Ausland and Gordon Sweringen were steadying a steel sheet, being moved by a crane when the crane's hoisting block came in contact with an uninsulated 7,200 volt power line, fatally electrocuting both men.

The estate of a carpenter who was electrocuted by an ill-placed high voltage wire received $2.75 million from six different defendants as part of a mediated settlement.

Attorneys for a Chester County roofer who suffered severe injuries when a ladder he was carrying struck power lines reached a $2.5 million settlement with PECO Energy for its role in the incident.

In a settlement reached this week, a 37-year old man who suffered multiple third-degree burns and other injuries as a result of a fire that erupted at a construction site has secured a total of $2.3 million from three defendants.

On July 30, 1987, a 24-year-old carpenter was electrocuted when an extension cord with a breach in its insulated covering contacted a metal stud wall that he was installing at a construction site in Philadelphia, Pa.

On August 1, 1988, Pete Popovich was fatally electrocuted at the contractors' job yard for the Schuylkill reconstruction project when a boom truck contacted overhead uninsulated wires.

Cronce, 42, was hooking a chain around a crane boom section when the crane operator lowered the boom and contacted the powerline. Cronce was electrocuted. He had been a truck driver with average annual earnings of about $27,800. Cronce is survived by his wife and one minor child.

Attorneys for the family of a New Jersey man electrocuted in 1987 when a highway construction crane came in contact with an uninsulated 7,200 volt power line, have announced that a $1,475,000 settlement was finalized on Feb. 6 with the multiple defendants involved.