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3 May 2019 Appeals Court Sends Products Liability Case vs. Husqvarna Back to Philadelphia In moving a products liability case against outdoor power tools manufacturer Husqvarna back to Philadelphia after it was initially transferred to Bucks County, the Pennsylvania Superior warned trial judges making venue determinations against assigning too much weight to the percentage ... Read Story

30 Apr 2019 Experts: Human error may be cause of Seattle crane collapse SEATTLE (AP) – Human error may have caused a crane collapse that killed four people and injured four others over the weekend, experts said Monday. Read Story

13 Mar 2019 Kohl’s Customers Seek OK On $1.8M Credit Monitoring Deal Kohl’s customers asked a Pennsylvania federal judge Tuesday to approve a $1.8 million deal to end class claims that the retailer and Capital One Financial Corp. charged them for a credit monitoring program that allegedly did not always include all ... Read Story

7 Mar 2019 In First Pennsylvania Lawsuit Of Its Kind, “Killer Kratom” Labeled Cause Of Death Of Beloved 25-Year-Old Human Services Counselor  #KRATOMKILLS Read Story

7 Mar 2019 Remarks Of Scott Sturgis, Father Of Caleb Sturgis FIRST LET ME TELL YOU A LITTLE ABOUT CALEB. Read Story

12 Feb 2019 $7 Million Record Settlement Reached for Estate of Motorist Killed by Reckless New Jersey School Bus Driver Philadelphia, PA (February 12, 2019) – A $7 million settlement has been reached between the estate of 49-year-old Harry McCracken, III, of Williamstown, N.J. and defendant Student Transportation of America (STA) related to a fatal school-bus crash on February 12, ... Read Story

25 Jan 2019 $6M Settlement in Suit Over Falling Bricks at Lululemon Store A woman injured when bricks from an adjacent building crashed through a Lululemon store has settled her lawsuit against the property owner for $6 million. Read Story

13 Nov 2018 Companies Agree to Pay $24M Over Construction Worker’s Brain Injury According to court papers, plaintiff Leon Oates, a construction worker, broke through a drop ceiling tile during the construction project and fell about 15 feet, before falling another roughly 15 feet down a concrete staircase, leaving him in a “semi-conscious, ... Read Story

25 Oct 2018 Rome Escalator Disaster Appears Identical to 2007 Giants Stadium Safety Failure Trial attorney Larry Bendesky, an international authority on escalator-safety failures, says yesterday’s escalator accident in a Rome subway station appears nearly identical to the 2007 Giants Stadium, New Jersey disaster in which numerous football fans were severely injured when the ... Read Story

15 Oct 2018 Owner of Branson, Missouri Death-trap Duck Boat Insults Dead, Survivors, Claiming Lives Lost Are Worthless Ripley’s Entertainment, Inc., owner-operator of the Branson, Missouri duck boat that outrageously and recklessly killed 17 victims and injured 14 others, today issued an insulting and insensitive statement about its callous and calculated lawsuit—citing an 1851 Federal limitation of liability ... Read Story