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24 Jul 2018 Branson Duck Boat: A 167-Year-Old Law Could Make All The Difference If A Lawsuit Is Filed If survivors and families of those who died in Thursday’s duck boat sinking on Table Rock Lake plan to take the boat operator to court, they should file suit quickly, one maritime-law attorney said Monday. Read Story

23 Jul 2018 Attorney Robert J. Mongeluzzi Commends Ex-NTSB Chair for Supporting Ban of Tourist ‘Deathtrap’ Duck Boats After Missouri Disaster Advocate for duck boat victims has for years urged U.S. ban the fatally flawed boats. Read Story

20 Jul 2018 Woman Who Lost Nine Relatives in Boating Accident Struggles With Why She Survived Tia Coleman lived in home ‘filled with sound of little feet and laughter;’ now her husband and three children are gone Read Story

20 Jul 2018 Ground ‘Deathtrap’ Duck Boats Now After Missouri Disaster, Urges Robert Mongeluzzi’s Philadelphia Law Firm Philadelphia, PA -(July 20, 2018) – Trial attorney Robert J. Mongeluzzi’s Philadelphia law firm, which demonstrated at trial how tourist duck boats are engineered ‘deathtraps’ operating on land and in the water, is again calling for a national ban of ... Read Story

20 Jul 2018 Why Are Duck Boats Still In Operation? On May 1, 1999, a duck boat sank on Lake Hamilton near Hot Springs, Ark. Thirteen of its 21 passengers perished. Read Story

20 Jul 2018 Missouri Duck Boat Accident Among Deadliest In Nearly 20 Years (CNN) – Thursday’s sinking of a duck boat in Missouri isn’t the first time trouble with the tour vessel turned fatal. At least 39 people have died in duck boat accidents in the past 20 years. Read Story

20 Jul 2018 Lawyer Of Victims In Deadly Philadelphia Duck Boat Crashes Calls For Shutdown (CNN) – Thursday’s sinking of a duck boat in Missouri isn’t the first time trouble with the tour vessel turned fatal. At least 39 people have died in duck boat accidents in the past 20 years. Read Story

20 Jul 2018 Federal Agency Warned About Danger Of Duck Boat Canopies Before Table Rock Tragedy The two biggest mass casualties on water involving duck boats in the last 20 years featured crafts with overhead roof canopies that a federal agency said posed a drowning risk to passengers trying to escape from a sinking vessel. Read Story

20 Jul 2018 17 Dead After Missouri Duck Boat Capsizes In High Winds Divers found four more bodies Friday in a Missouri lake where a duck boat packed with tourists capsized and sank in high winds, bringing the death toll to 17 in the country-and-western town of Branson, authorities said. Read Story

28 Jun 2018 U-Haul To Pay $160M In Feltonville Food-Truck Blast That Killed 2 U-Haul Co. of Pennsylvania will pay a record $160 million in a settlement after a Feltonville food truck exploded nearly four years ago, killing a mother and daughter and injuring 11 people. The amount is the highest pre-verdict settlement in ... Read Story

28 Jun 2018 How Bad Are Duck Boat Canopies? Lawyer Says They Caused ‘Mad Panic’ In Earlier Tragedy In the immediate aftermath of the duck boat tragedy on Table Rock Lake Thursday night, many have wondered whether the canopies attached to these vehicles play a role in this type of incident. Read Story

21 Jun 2018 $16.5 Million Class Action Settlement About Certain Durapro™ Toilet Connectors With Plastic Coupling Nuts JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The following is being jointly released by the parties in the class action lawsuit captioned, Ajose, et al. v. Interline Brands, Inc., Case No. 3:14-CV-1707, pending in the United States District Court for ... Read Story

5 Jun 2018 Today’s Statement of Saltz, Mongeluzzi & Bendesky on the 5th Anniversary of the Philadelphia Salvation Army Store Fatal Collapse and Dedication of the June 5th Victims Memorial Philadelphia, PA (June 5, 2018) – Trial attorney Jeffrey P. Goodman, whose firm, Saltz, Mongeluzzi & Bendesky, P.C., filed the first legal action, and ultimately represented nine victims (including three who died) following the catastrophic June 5, 2013 Salvation Army ... Read Story

5 Jun 2018 Statement Of Saltz, Mongeluzzi & Bendesky On The 5Th Anniversary Of The Philadelphia Salvation Army Store Fatal Collapse And Dedication Of The June 5 Victims Memorial Philadelphia, PA (June 5, 2018) – Trial attorney Jeffrey P. Goodman, whose firm, Saltz, Mongeluzzi & Bendesky, P.C., filed the first legal action, and ultimately represented nine victims (including three who died) following the catastrophic June 5, 2013 Salvation Army ... Read Story

4 Jun 2018 Building Demolition Legal-Safety Authority Robert J. Mongeluzzi and His Team Available to Discuss Today’s Demolition Tragedy Disaster occurs on eve of 5-year anniversary of Salvation Army Building Collapse. Read Story

25 Apr 2018 Products Distributor To Pay $16.5M To End Toilet-Part Row Law360 (April 25, 2018, 1:33 PM EDT) — An industrial products distributor agreed Tuesday to pay $16.5 million to end a proposed class action filed in Tennessee federal court alleging a faulty toilet part causes flooding that damages homes and ... Read Story

25 Apr 2018 Amid A Building Boom, A North Philly Property Collapses, Killing Well-Known Contractor The violations from Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses and Inspections had stacked up against the long-vacant property at Jefferson and Bailey Streets in North Philadelphia long before contractor Harvey Figgs reported to work Monday. Read Story

4 Feb 2018 “America’s Losing Trust and Confidence in Amtrak,” Say Trial Attorneys Thomas R. Kline and Robert J. Mongeluzzi After Today’s Fatal Amtrak Train #91 Crash Near Columbia, South Carolina PHILADELPHIA, PA (February 4, 2018) – Trial attorneys Thomas R. Kline, of Kline & Specter PC, and Robert J. Mongeluzzi, of Saltz, Mongeluzzi, & Bendesky, P.C., are calling for immediate installation across the U.S. of Positive Train Control (PTC) life-saving ... Read Story

21 Dec 2017 Family Of West Chester Nursing Home Fire Victim Asks: ‘Why Was She Not Protected? What Happened?’ After Martin Malloy had dinner with his mother, Theresa, on Wednesday, Nov. 15, he left her in the first floor lobby of Barclay Friends. She joined a circle of fellow residents, who were batting around a balloon and “laughing like ... Read Story

19 Dec 2017 ‘Delays Have Become Synonymous With Deaths’ Railroad-Safety Litigators Urge Prompt Ptc Implementation PHILADELPHIA, PA (December 19, 2017) – Two of America’s foremost legal authorities on railroad catastrophes , Thomas R. Kline , Esq. and Robert J. Mongeluzzi , Esq., sharply criticized Amtrak and Congress after the National Transportation Safety Board(NTSB) last night ... Read Story