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18 Jul 2013 Demolition Experts Testify at City Council Hearing on Deadly Center City Building Collapse As City Council continued its probe Thursday into last month’s tragic building collapse on Market Street, they heard from independent demolition experts who said that city inspectors inspect very little. Read Story

20 Jun 2013 Apple In-App Purchase Litigation Settlement The deadline to submit a claim is January 13, 2014. Read Story

17 Jun 2013 Statement Regarding Pittsburgh Zoo Wrongful Death Litigation The Derkosh family is grateful to the individuals – including persons knowledgeable of the Zoo – who have courageously contacted us (some anonymously) regarding the wrongful death complaint (Allegheny County court of Common Pleas No. GD-13-009348) filed May 23, 2013, ... Read Story

11 Jun 2013 Lawyer: Contractor ‘Didn’t See’ Machine Demolishing Building The heavy equipment blamed for causing a building collapse that killed six people last Wednesday was only to be used that day for removing debris, and the contractor in charge of the site “didn’t see” the excavator doing demolition, his ... Read Story

11 Jun 2013 Five More Building Collapse Victims File Suit Five more civil complaints have been filed against the building owner, his demolition contractor and subcontractor, and the equipment operator in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, according to lawyers at Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky. Read Story

11 Jun 2013 For Immediate Release: Building Collapse Saltz, Mongeluzzi & Bendesky, P.C. Read Story

10 Jun 2013 Sifting Through Site of Tragedy Forensic study begins Read Story

10 Jun 2013 Thrift Store Clerk: ‘Whole Entire Wall Fell Down and Buried Her’ Thrift store clerk: ‘Whole entire wall fell down and buried her’ Felicia Hill, 36, of North Philadelphia, was working inside the Salvation Army on Market Street when the building collapsed, killing six people, on Wednesday, June 5, 2013. Read Story

10 Jun 2013 Philadelphia Collapse Survivor Describes Ordeal The city’s top prosecutor announced a grand jury was being convened to investigate a building collapse that killed six people and injured 13 others, including a woman who on Monday described hearing the sound of falling bricks moments before the ... Read Story

9 Jun 2013 Lawyers Slam Demolition Work at Center City Collapse Site Philadelphia – Attorneys for four people suing over the collapse of a downtown building that killed six people last week lambasted the demolition work after surveying the site Sunday. Read Story

9 Jun 2013 Victim’s Attorney: 14-Foot Steel Beam Possibly Used to Demolish Building Investigators, attorneys, and engineers representing four of the victims suing over the deadly Center City Building collapse performed an official inspection of the site Sunday. Read Story

8 Jun 2013 Attorney: Officials Will Inspect Collapsed Building Investigators will perform an official inspection of the site of the deadly Center City building collapse, according to the attorney for one of the victims. Read Story

8 Jun 2013 Philadelphia Building Collapse: City Tightens Rules on Demolition Officials in Philadelphia announced sweeping changes to the city’s demolition standards Friday as the first lawsuit was filed in the four-story building collapse that left six people dead. Read Story

7 Jun 2013 Philadelphia Officials Look for Cause of Deadly Building Collapse PHILADELPHIA – The search for victims of a building collapse that killed six people wound down Thursday, and the first civil lawsuit was filed amid mounting questions about whether the demolition company that was tearing down the structure caused the ... Read Story

7 Jun 2013 First Lawsuit Filed In Philadelphia Building Collapse Nadine White was at work inside the Salvation Army thrift store in Philadelphia on Wednesday when the four-story building next door came crashing down on top of her and everyone else inside. Read Story

7 Jun 2013 Through the Crack Contractor had shady past, so how did he get license? Read Story

7 Jun 2013 First Lawsuit Filed in Philadelphia Building Collapse That Killed Six A lawyer on behalf of a survivor of a building collapse in Philadelphia that killed six filed a lawsuit late Thursday against the city, claiming the incident was due to lax city regulation of the construction contracting industry. Read Story

6 Jun 2013 As Search in Building Collapse Ends, Lawsuits and Investigations Begin Philadelphia (CNN) — Her family says she was brilliant, caring and had the ability to find beauty in everything. Read Story

6 Jun 2013 Fallout Mounts in Deadly Philly Building Collapse A building collapse that killed six people and injured 13 has brought swift and mounting fallout in a city where demolition contractors are lightly regulated, with a plaintiff’s lawyer calling it an entirely preventable tragedy that resulted from gross recklessness ... Read Story

6 Jun 2013 Show Compassion Enough! Horrible things happen to very nice people and we all could be next. Maddox Derkosh died by a horrible accident. Jason and Elizabeth, his parents, had a right to expect that a viewing stand constructed by the Pittsburgh zoo ... Read Story