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24 Jun 2021 Partial Condo Collapse Overnight in Florida One dead and at least eight injured in a partial building collapse at a Miami area condo complex. Read Story

22 Jun 2021 Delaware Suit May Be First of Many Over Bone Graft Linked to Tuberculosis A Delaware man is the first to take legal action against the manufacturer of a batch of a bone graft product that’s reported to have caused patients to contract tuberculosis post-surgery. Read Story

19 Jun 2021 CDC Investigating TB Cases Linked to Tainted Bone Repair Product Used in More Than 100 Patients Federal and state health officials are investigating a rare tuberculosis outbreak among more than 100 patients who may have been infected after having spinal surgery or fracture repairs this spring with a bone product contaminated with the bacteria that causes ... Read Story

16 Jun 2021 First U.S. Lawsuit Filed Against Aziyo Biologics, Inc. and Medtronic, Inc. On behalf of Delaware patient infected with Tuberculosis after receiving tainted surgical bone graft procedure during spinal fusion. Read Story

14 Jun 2021 A Large Explosion and Multialarm Fire is On-Going at the Chemtool Chemical Plant in Rockton, Illinois The explosion occurred at 7:00 am. Reports suggest a firefighter has been injured and all within a mile of the plant were evacuated. Heavy smoke is blanketing the area and the fire is still burning as of 12:00 p.m. CST. Read Story

14 Jun 2021 $8 Million Paid To Settle Five Lawsuits Resulting From Fatal 2016 New Jersey Transit Hoboken Terminal Speeding-Train Crash PHILADELPHIA, PA (July 14, 2021) – $8.15 million has been paid to settle five lawsuits resulting from the September 29, 2016, New Jersey Transit (NJT) Hoboken Terminal, speeding-train crash in which a 34-year-old woman was killed from falling debris while ... Read Story

9 Jun 2021 Michael Budner Elected to Non-profit Board of Directors Philadelphia VIP, a non-profit organization providing pro bono legal services, elects Michael A. Budner to its Board of Directors. Read Story

28 May 2021 22 Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky Attorneys Named 2021 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky is pleased to announce that ten attorneys have been named Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and 11 attorneys have been named Rising Stars for 2021. Read Story

27 May 2021 One Year After George Floyd’s Murder, Memorial Held In Bristol On Tuesday, May 25, Daniel Ceisler spoke at a memorial service in honor of George Floyd. Read Story

25 May 2021 J. Peter Veloski Appears on WWDB-AM’s “Pain and Wellness Hour” On May 25, 2021, Peter Veloski was a guest on “The Pain and Wellness Hour with Sonny Banks.” Read Story

21 May 2021 Jordan Howell Receives LL.M. in Trial Advocacy Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky attorneys graduate from Temple University Beasley School of Law trial advocacy program with LL.M. Read Story

6 May 2021 Woman says her digestive tract injuries are the result of medical malpractice from Delco professionals A Ridley Park woman claims that a host of medical professionals failed to identify and diagnose her perforated ulcer and bowel necrosis, leading her to suffer permanent damage to her digestive tract. Read Story

5 May 2021 More Suits Allege Herbicide Paraquat Causes Parkinson’s Syngenta and Chevron were hit with six more suits in federal courts in California, Illinois and Pennsylvania over allegations that the herbicide paraquat causes Parkinson’s disease, as the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation prepares to decide whether to consolidate the ... Read Story

4 May 2021 ‘Tip of the Iceberg’: Six Tort Cases Filed in Pa. and Two Other States Blaming Herbicide for Parkinson’s Disease A half dozen lawsuits were filed simultaneously in federal court in three states April 30—including Pennsylvania—against the manufacturers and marketers of Paraquat, a herbicide allegedly linked to developing Parkinson’s disease. Read Story

3 May 2021 Multi-State Lawsuits Filed Against Makers of Paraquat – Herbicide Linked to Parkinson’s Disease – By Team of Attorneys From Dicello Levitt Gutzler, Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky, and Searcy Law PHILADELPHIA, PA (May 3, 2021) – Six lawsuits have been filed in federal courts across three states – Pennsylvania, California and Illinois  – alleging a link between Paraquat, the widely-banned herbicide, and incurable Parkinson’s disease. The lawsuits include the first ... Read Story

6 Apr 2021 Key Considerations in Cancer Cases As we eagerly anticipate the restart of jury trials, it is useful to reassess our core thinking about malpractice cases in the wake of a global pandemic that has sharpened our collective focus on health care. How will juries respond ... Read Story

10 Mar 2021 Porsche Owner Files Federal Class Action Lawsuit Following “Stop Sale Order” Highlighting a New Round of Vehicle Emissions Concerns PHILADELPHIA, PA (March 10, 2021) – Tens of thousands of duped Porsche car and SUV owners in Pennsylvania and across the U.S., who are now blocked from selling their non-compliant, excessively polluting, high-performance models due to a highly unusual, November ... Read Story

4 Mar 2021 After Year-Long Legal Battle, Septa Is Complying With Requests for Evidence in Harrowing 2019 Incident in Which an On-Duty Transit Cop’s Gun Fired Without Him Touching the Weapon Another Case Involving Allegedly Defective Sig Sauer P320 Semi-Automatic Handgun Read Story

18 Feb 2021 $10 Million Lawsuit Filed Against Maker of Allegedly Defective Semi-Automatic Handgun by Federal Agent Shot Without Ever Touching the Trigger Former Marine’s lawsuit the latest filed by wounded uniformed and civilian users Read Story

29 Jan 2021 Prudential Tower Worker Dies in Fall, SMB Lawyers Available for Consultation A New Jersey sheet metal worker was killed today in a fall at Newark’s Prudential Tower, according to news reports. With an extensive history of success with some of the largest construction-accident recoveries in the United States, the lawyers at ... Read Story