PITTSBURGH – A settlement was recently reached in litigation brought by a plaintiff who alleged negligence on the part of an arena management company, when she was injured in a stadium brawl at a Shania Twain concert in Pittsburgh four years ago.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for a steel slag processing facility accused in a class action lawsuit of releasing damaging, fugitive dust and air particulates onto the properties of local homeowners object to the action, arguing it is only based in private nuisance, and no other claims of trespass, public nuisance and negligence.
Donna Frederick (on behalf of herself and all others similarly-situated) of Natrona Heights first filed suit in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on Oct. 28 versus Harsco Corporation, also of Natrona Heights.
“Steel slag, a glass-like byproduct of steel making, is produced during the separation of the molten steel from impurities in steelmaking furnaces. The slag occurs as a molten liquid melt and is a complex solution of silicates and oxides that solidifies upon cooling. Processed steel slag is commonly used to cover driveways, to fill potholes and is also used by homeowners as a landscaping stone in back yards around a pool area or patio,” the suit