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4 Mar 2025 Vail To Blame For Woman’s Ski Resort Fall, Seattle Jury Told  Miroslava “Mirka” Lewis was trying to load onto a moving chairlift when she was knocked from the edge of a two-story platform and plummeted to the ground below. Read Story

2 Mar 2025 SPS Chemical Fire Class Action Lawsuit Leadership Proposed The four firms jointly filed motions for consolidation of all pending, future cases against the defendant. Read Story

24 Feb 2025 SPS Technologies Fire in Abington is Extinguished. Now, a Class-Action Lawsuit Seeks Answers The fire that began last Monday night was officially extinguished at 3:53 p.m. Saturday. A lawsuit in Philadelphia is seeking class-action status on behalf of residents and businesses in the area. Read Story

24 Feb 2025 First Class Action Lawsuit Filed In Abington Twp. Fire A law firm filed the suit on behalf of a bus driver from Wyncote whose school district was closed for the SPS Technologies fire. Read Story

23 Feb 2025 Following Monday’s Ferocious Plant Fire and Explosion, Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky and Stranch, Jennings & Garvey File the First Lawsuit Against the Building’s Owner-Operator Class action against SPS Technologies lodged by leading catastrophic building explosion attorneys. Read Story

12 Feb 2025 Judge Upholds $2.35M Verdict Against Sig Sauer Over Pistol Shooting in Georgia Last week, a federal judge dismissed the gunmaker’s request for a new trial, along with an appeal to reduce the amount of damages for pain and suffering. Read Story

12 Feb 2025 Sig Sauer’s Bid To Toss $2.3M Ga. Jury Verdict Misfires U.S. District Judge Eleanor L. Ross said she found unpersuasive the gunmaker’s complaints that Lang introduced “inflammatory” and irrelevant evidence, and that his experts were unqualified. Read Story

12 Feb 2025 In Another Setback for Sig Sauer, Georgia Court Denies Request for New Trial Following $2.35 Million Verdict in Defective P320 Pistol Case Federal judge upheld the jury’s damages award in full. Read Story

1 Feb 2025 Medical Plane Crashes into Philadelphia Neighborhood, Killing Six on Board There were six people onboard the medical plane at the time of the crash, including a child; injuries on the ground are likely. Read Story

31 Jan 2025 In Latest Setback for Sig Sauer, U.S. Appeals Court Reinstates Defective-Design P320 Case of Injured Kentucky Gun Owner Sixth Circuit ruling follows two jury trials in which P320 gunshot victims were awarded millions in damages Read Story

30 Jan 2025 Deadly Collision Between Passenger Jet and Army Helicopter There are not believed to be any survivors after a midair collision between a plane and military helicopter. Read Story

29 Jan 2025 Worker Killed by Falling Concrete Slab at NJ Condo Complex A concrete slab collapsed on a roofing worker after demolition and construction at a condo complex. Read Story

18 Jan 2025 Dump Truck Crashes Into Target, at Least Five Injured Several people were injured after a dump truck struck a tractor-trailer before crashing into a Target in North Bergen, New Jersey. Read Story

9 Jan 2025 Larry Bendesky Receives Community Service Award from Louis D. Brandeis Law Society The award was established in 2001 to honor the life of Benjamin F. Levy and has been presented by the Brandeis Law Society since 2004. Read Story

6 Jan 2025 Victims of New Year’s Day 2023 Explosions in Port Richmond are Suing PGW and Peco PGW’s investigation in the days after the explosion found no leaks in the natural gas infrastructure surrounding the block of the explosion. Read Story

6 Jan 2025 Worker Killed After Skid Loader Falls on Him at Machine Shop A 34-year-old construction worker died Friday morning in Lebanon County after a skid loader bucket fell and trapped him. Read Story

30 Dec 2024 Passenger Train Collides with Fire Truck in Florida, at Least 15 Injured Three firefighters and 12 passengers were injured in the collision. Read Story

24 Dec 2024 Philly Jury Awards $15 Million to a Woman Whose Leg Was Amputated After She Slipped on a Staircase With No Handrail Attorneys for Patricia Thompson argued that building owner Alisha Real Estate was operating a “get rich quick scheme” and not focused on the safety of tenants in affordable housing. Read Story

23 Dec 2024 Phila. Jury Awards $15M to Woman Who Slipped on Apartment Building Stairs The jury determined that the building’s owner and property manager were responsible for the plaintiff’s injuries, despite the defendants’ arguments that they had only taken charge of the building two weeks before the accident. Read Story

11 Dec 2024 Deadly Chocolate Factory Explosion Caused by Faulty Gas Fitting, Safety Board Finds UGI had a chance to remediate the faulty tee during the 2021 pipeline replacement project but did not do so, board investigators said. Read Story