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15 Jul 2011 Tug Pilot To Plead Guilty In Pa. Duck Boat Crash PHILADELPHIA-A tug pilot talking on a cell phone as he steered a huge barge into a small duck boat, killing two tourists, has agreed to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. Read Story

15 Jul 2011 First Mate Charged In Philly Duck Boat Accident About 40 minutes before the fatal duck-boat accident last year off Penn’s Landing, the first mate on a Delaware River tug made a pivotal error. Read Story

28 Jun 2011 Duck Boats Will Not Operate On July 7 Crash Anniversary The duck boats will not operate July 7, the one-year anniversary of the crash on the Delaware River that killed two Hungarian tourists. Read Story

27 Jun 2011 Lawsuit Filed In Fatal Test Drive A civil lawsuit has been filed in the case of a salesman behind the wheel of a sports car in a harrowing high-speed test drive that killed a father and injured his teenage son. Read Story

22 Jun 2011 Cell Phones Played Major Role In Duck Boat Accident The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that the mate operating a tugboat last summer was distracted by his repeated use of a cell phone and a laptop computer and failed to maintain a proper lookout while towing a ... Read Story

21 Jun 2011 Cellphone Use Blamed For Duck Boat Crash WASHINGTON A tugboat officer, focused on his cellphone and laptop, allowed his tug to push a 250-foot barge into a stranded tourist vessel on the Delaware River in July, killing two people and highlighting a growing problem with distracted operators ... Read Story

20 Jun 2011 Attorneys For Duck Boat Victims Hold Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Briefing On Ntsb Final Investigative Report PHILADELPHIA, PA (June 20, 2011) – Attorneys representing the families of the victims killed in the July 7, 2010, Philadelphia duck boat accident will comment on the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) final report, including findings of probable cause and ... Read Story

17 Jun 2011 Statement of Counsel Regarding Planned Resumption By Morey’s Pier of Ride in Fatal Ferris Wheel Accident The following statement was issued today by the D’Amato Law Firm and Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky, which represent the family of Abiah Jones: Read Story

15 Jun 2011 Suit Filed Over 2010 Auto Death A mangled, bloodied figure disappearing slowly from view as it was eased into a body bag. Read Story

4 May 2011 Family Sues Nursing Home Company Over Alleged Abuse HAVERFORD, Pa. (CBS) – Lawyers representing a Delaware County family about to sue the company that runs the Quadrangle Nursing Home on Darby Road in Haverford say management “blew off” a state mandate to retrain workers and report any allegations ... Read Story

4 May 2011 Family Plans To File Lawsuit In Quadrangle Abuse Case HAVERFORD – The family of the elderly woman who was allegedly abused by caretakers at Quadrangle Assisted Living announced Tuesday it plans to file a civil lawsuit on behalf of the victim and every resident of the upscale facility on ... Read Story

3 May 2011 Family To Sue Over Alleged Abuse At Nursing Home The family of a nursing home resident allegedly abused by her caretakers intends to sue the Delaware County nursing facility. Read Story

3 May 2011 Lawsuit Planned In Alleged Nursing Home Abuse HAVERFORD, Pa. – May 3, 2011 (WPVI) — Mary and Paul French of Havertown spoke for the first time Tuesday about a case of alleged nursing home abuse caught on videotape. Read Story

29 Apr 2011 Regarding Today’s License Revocation of Quadrangle Senior Living PHILADELPHIA, PA (April29, 2011) – We represent Lois McAllister, who, according to the state Department of Public Welfare (DPW) was assaulted, bullied, and taunted by her supposed nursing home workers while she was a resident of Quadrangle Senior Living. Read Story

4 Mar 2011 Nanny Cam Films Patient’S Abuse, Triggers Charges At Haverford Facility Almost from the time Lois McCallister was moved to the dementia unit at the Quadrangle nursing-care facility, her daughter says there were troubling signs. Read Story

3 Mar 2011 Test Drive Turned Deadly In Lancaster County When the airborne sports car finally came to a stop after the high-speed test drive, Tyler Jensen, secure in his seat belt, turned to the back seat to check on his father. Read Story

28 Feb 2011 Injured Ironworkers Charge Sunoco Unit In South Philadelphia Four local ironworkers, all suffering injuries from exposure to hydrofluoric acid in March 2009, are alleging that Sunoco and its subcontractors knew the long troubled South Philadelphia Refinery’s Unit 433 was an accident waiting to happen and failed to protect ... Read Story

24 Feb 2011 Seriously Injured Ironworkers Say Sunoco Knowingly Exposed Them to Hazardous Conditions at South Philadelphia Refinery Before March 11, 2009 Acid Leak PHILADELPHIA, PA (February 24, 2011) – Four local ironworkers, all suffering injuries from exposure to hydrofluoric acid (HF) in March 2009, are alleging that Sunoco and its subcontractors knew the long troubled South Philadelphia Refinery’s Unit 433 was an accident ... Read Story

6 Dec 2010 Don’t Mess With Mongo Robert Mongeluzzi is just back from Augusta, Ga., where he was trying to work out a settlement for a client who had multiple amputations- both legs, right arm, genitals, pelvis, hips, buttocks- as a result of a construction accident. Read Story

6 Dec 2010 Can’t Wait That Long, Ponzi Victims Say – Gaddel Enterprises, Bilked Thousands Of People In A $7.3 Million PHILADELPHIA (CN) – A class action claims Lizette Morice and her company, Gaddel Enterprises, bilked thousands of people in a $7.3 million Ponzi scam, to which she pleaded guilty, and offered to pay restitution of $25 per quarter, which would ... Read Story