PITTSBURGH – Black & Decker has disclaimed all liability for allegedly being the cause of amputation injuries suffered by a woodworker from Northwestern Pennsylvania while using what he referred to as defective electric tools.
Justin S. Wentz of Erie first filed suit in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on Oct. 30 versus Black & Decker (U.S.) Inc. (doing business as “Porter-Cable”) and The Black & Decker Corporation of Towson, Md., Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. of New Britain, Conn. and Porter-Cable Corporation of North Jackson, Tenn.
(All defendants except Black & Decker (U.S.) Inc. were dismissed from the case on Dec. 7.)
“On Aug. 16, 2018, plaintiff was operating the Porter Cable Model 75361 Production Router Base and Model 7519 Production Router [electric motorized power tools] in the course of his of employment at Schutte Woodworking, in a manner intended by defendants and for the foreseeable and intended purposes for which it was designed, manufactured, sold,
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PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh woman’s lawsuit against her insurance company for alleged refusal to reimburse her for costs sustained after a broken valve damaged her property has been removed to federal court.
Jacqueline Rosenberg of Pittsburgh filed suit in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on Nov. 4 versus Tower Hill Insurance Group (later amended to “Tower Hill Preferred Insurance Company”), of Gainesville, Fla.
“Plaintiff owns real property located at 267 Cheshire Way, Naples, Florida. Defendant is an insurance company licensed to conduct business in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and to place policies of insurance for properties located in Florida. ” the suit states.
SCRANTON – A federal court venue remains to be determined for a lawsuit between a Mississippi widower and a Mount Union company litigating over a suit concerning an allegedly defective natural gas heater which may have been responsible for the death of his wife.
William Scott Etheridge of Holly Springs, Miss. first filed a complaint on Feb. 14 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania against World Marketing of America (doing business as “Kozy-World”) of Mount Union.
The complaint alleged his wife, Doris Jean Etheridge, died after flames from a Kozy-World Wall Heater installed in their home “protruded outside of the grated barrier” on March 18, 2019, catching her shirt on fire and resulting in severe burns that led to her hospitalization and death.
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PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge’s ruling has altered the terms by which negligence can be pled in a lawsuit brought by the parents of a child who alleged medical malpractice in requiring their son to have emergency surgery to remove one of his testicles, but has also denied some of the case’s medical defendants the chance to escape punitive damages.
Lasheena Sipp-Lipscomb and Andres Gardin, Sr., first filed a complaint on April 16 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Einstein Physicians Pennypack Pediatrics, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network and others alleging violation of the Emergency Medical Treatment Act (EMTALA) and other claims.