The family of a patient who blamed his death on a bedsore that worsened during his stay at an Ohio nursing home can't get a do-over just because the jury awarded less compensation than either party's estimate of the costs, an Ohio appellate court ruled.
An Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, judge has approved class certification for a lawsuit against U.S. Steel over its increased pollution following a 2018 fire at its Clairton, Pennsylvania, coke works, ruling that the proposed class of about 123,000 residents in communities south and east of Pittsburgh satisfied the criteria for class treatment.
Investors in an allegedly fraudulent promise to build alternative-energy power plants have agreed to dismiss their claims that the law firm of Dodaro Matta & Cambest PC and two attorneys were complicit in the scheme, according to filings in Pennsylvania federal court.
The city of Pittsburgh's plans to demolish a former railroad bridge would render an adjacent auto parts business unusable and violate agreements the city had made with the now-defunct railroad companies nearly a century ago, the business owners said in a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania state court.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and one of its star surgeons, Dr. James L. Luketich, will pay the federal government $8.5 million to resolve claims that Luketich violated Medicare and Medicaid rules by scheduling himself for two and three simultaneous surgeries, prosecutors announced Monday.