$11 million The family of an Elsmere man who died after falling into a container of boiling water at a Claymont steel factory reached an $11 million settlement with the firm responsible for workplace safety at the plant, the family’s attorney said Wednesday.   Read Full Article.

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

$7.9 million Richard L. Jones filed suit against West Penn Power Company Cargoteck, Larry’s Homes of Pa after sustaining when the boom of a truck he was operating struck a live overhead electrical wire.   Read Full Article.

$5.9 million Settlements worth nearly $5.9 million were reached last week in suits stemming from a natural gas explosion in Wilmington that leveled two homes and injured four construction workers.   Read Full Article.

$5.8 million Mobile Dredging & Pumping Co. has agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle lawsuits filed in the wake of a fire in a Philadelphia steam plant – one burned over 96 percent of his body and died 18 hours later, the other by a man who survived burns over 30 percent of his body.  Read Full Article.