For much of the past decade plus one of the most confusing and hotly litigated issues in Ohio oil and gas law has been the Ohio Dormant Mineral Act. In theory, the law was created to make it easier to identify the owners of severed oil and gas interests and make oil and gas leasing easier. With […]

Posted in Legal News and Product Recalls | No Comments »

Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder products are back in the news following a Reuters report that, for decades, the company knew its talcum baby powder contained asbestos. Reuters’ investigation, examining documents and sworn testimony, concluded that Johnson & Johnson failed to tell regulators or the public what its company executives, mine managers, scientists, doctors and lawyers knew, […]

Posted in Legal News and Product Recalls | No Comments »

In the case of Schmerling v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania held that underinsured motorists benefit limits and 3rd party tortfeasor settlement negotiations are irrelevant, and therefore, inadmissible in an uninsured motorists claim. Schmerling sustained serious injuries as a result of being struck by a motor […]

Posted in Legal News and Product Recalls | No Comments »

Recently, in the case of Swanger v. Warrior Run School District, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania addressed the duty of school officials to warn third parties of potential harm. Plaintiff Bobbie Jo Swanger was a mentally challenged student in Warrior Run School District’s special education and life skills program. Defendant […]

Posted in Legal News and Product Recalls | No Comments »

“Does this mean we have to go to trial?” I would have to say I hear this question from clients more than any other, generally accompanied by an anxious, pleading look. As attorneys who pride themselves on being prepared to proceed to trial in any case we take on, and doing so with a good […]

Posted in Legal News and Product Recalls | No Comments »

In Nicolaou v. Martin, No. 44 MAP 2017 (Pa. Oct. 17, 2018) (Op. by Baer, J.), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that it is the jury who determines whether a plaintiff has acted reasonably in pursuing her claim with reasonable diligence once aware that she has been injured due to the negligence of another. In 2001, […]

Posted in Legal News and Product Recalls | No Comments »

Monsanto’s weed killer Roundup is in the news this week, once again, for all the wrong reasons. A new report from the Environmental Working Group (“EWG”) finds that dozens of common breakfast cereals and snack bars – including staples like Cheerios and Quaker Oates – are contaminated with glyphosate, the cancer-causing herbicide found in the weed killer Roundup, at […]

Posted in Legal News and Product Recalls | No Comments »

As lawyers who have seen, firsthand, the immense suffering innocent victims have undergone and the excruciating deaths they have experienced from asbestos exposure. It is difficult to fathom how, in this day and age, it could even be possible, but asbestos imports to the U.S. are surging on the basis of the Trump EPA’s signaling that it […]

Posted in Legal News and Product Recalls | No Comments »

In Chandler v. L’Oreal USA, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania has determined that L’Oreal’s Regular Optimum Salon Haircare ® Defy Breakage Salon No-Lye Relaxer (“Defy Breakage relaxer”) is not a defective product and dismisses plaintiff’s claims. Ms. Chandler had been using L’Oreal’s Dark and Lovely ® relaxer regularly for the […]

Posted in Legal News and Product Recalls | No Comments »

My case is set for mediation – what does that mean? In today’s day and age, it has become the norm for judges to require parties to a lawsuit to engage in mediation. However, many people do not understand the process of mediation and/or what the so called “mediation” will require of themselves. To put […]

Posted in Legal News and Product Recalls | No Comments »