In The News

1 Nov 2003 Resorts’ Construction Site Quiet After Trop Collapse ATLANTIC CITY – There were the sounds of jackhammers and some heavy equipment, and the red construction elevators slowly moved up and down the building. Read Story

31 Oct 2003 An A.C. Tragedy This image will be seared in the memories of many in Atlantic City: the jagged, sloping, pancaked floors of a parking garage that had held hundreds of construction workers before five stories collapsed suddenly Thursday morning. Read Story

31 Oct 2003 Many Guests Stuck In AC ATLANTIC CITY – Tom and Patty Bock were playing slots at Tropicana Casino and Resort when something caught their eyes. “We saw some workers just booking it across the floor. You could see it in their eyes something was really ... Read Story

30 Apr 2003 Victims Families Describe Anger; Hurt Over Trop Collapse ATLANTIC CITY – There were tears. There were profanities. Four families torn apart, women left without husbands, children left fatherless, when the top five floors of the l0-floor Tropicana Casino and Resort garage collapsed as workers poured cement on the ... Read Story

17 Dec 2002 People Paper People Philly’s titan of torts, lawyer, Bob Mongeluzzi, has rocked the ski industry with a blockbuster lawsuit against Blue Mountain Ski Resort in Palmerton. Pa., over allowing kids to ski without head protection. Mongo (who handled the Penn gene therapy case ... Read Story

6 Dec 2001 Plainspoken Advocate For Trade Unions Robert J. Mongeluzzi, the lead lawyer for victims in the Tropicana Casino Resort settlement, is a candid former college athlete with a fierce devotion to his clients and a deep conviction that plain talk, not legal gymnastics, will win over ... Read Story

6 Dec 2001 Mongo Makes His Name In Construction Injury Cases Mongo. It sounds like a nickname for a whacky fraternity buddy. But for those in the local construction industry, it is a name that generates fear. Read Story

6 Dec 2001 After parking garage collapses, attorneys join together to help injured workers Competition in the Atlantic City, New Jersey, casino world is fierce. So when Tropicana Casino and Resort wanted to expand its property to add a new hotel, retail center, and parking garage, it had to move fast to complete the ... Read Story

6 Dec 2001 Lawyer Limelight: Eunice Trevor Eunice Trevor, a partner at Philadelphia’s Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky, began using mini-documentaries as a litigation tool about 20 years ago. She soon discovered how effective the films were at convincing mediators, judges and opposing counsel that her clients deserved a ... Read Story

6 Dec 2001 Workers Push To Complete The Sid On Time EVEN WITH 600 workers pulling overtime and weekend shifts in these last weeks of construction, the Kimmel Center, aka the Sid, will not be fully completed by its Dec. 15 deadline. Read Story

6 Dec 2001 More Than Just A Job MORE THAN 5,000 construction workers firm more than two dozen labor unions came together to build the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, many performing tasks that have never been done before. Read Story

6 Dec 2001 Laborers Still Pained By Kimmel Tragedy DAVE JENNINGS landed face-down in fresh concrete, buried except for the back of his jacket. That’s how they found him, more than two stories down from where he had stood moments earlier – before scaffolding collapsed at the site of ... Read Story

5 Dec 2001 People In The News Michael F. Barrett, managing shareholder of Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky, has been elected vice president of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association for 2006-2007. The PTLA also recently named Barrett as the recipient of its 2006 President’s Award. Read Story