PITTSBURGH – Allegheny General Hospital and its parking garage deny allegations from a Pittsburgh couple, who claimed one of the defendants’ employees negligently allowed a parking gate arm to fall and strike the wife-plaintiff on the head, causing her severe injuries.
PITTSBURGH – Apple and Verizon are seeking to obtain summary judgment in a lawsuit from a Western Pennsylvania man accusing them of committing negligence and product liability defects, when an Apple iPhone 6s Plus smartphone allegedly exploded and seriously injured him – instead placing the cause of the plaintiff's injuries and related fire on his improperly-discarded smoking materials.
PITTSBURGH – Millcreek Township has argued that an Erie man stopped by its police officers after yelling about former President Donald Trump while listening to his car radio was not improperly arrested for disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia jury has handed down the largest medical malpractice verdict in the history of Pennsylvania, in the form of a $182.7 million judgment to a five year-old boy born with cerebral palsy and his mother, against the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.