Recently, in the case of Harker v. Chan, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania granted the defendants’ request for remittitur, lowering the jury verdict for past and future non-economic damages from $43,750,000 to $16,000,000, resulting in “the highest possible recovery that would not ‘shock’ the judicial conscience.” GH was born […]

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In July, jurors in St. Louis hit Johnson & Johnson (“J&J”) with one of the largest product liability verdicts in U.S. history–a 4.69 billion award of compensatory and punitive damages to 22 ovarian cancer victims or their survivors. The company has been engulfed in an avalanche of talc-cancer claims. As of July 1, the company faced 10,600 […]

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One of the assessments that you and your attorney will make when it comes time to file your case will be whether to file it in state or federal court. There are limited situations where you can file a case in federal court. One is where the claims that you are bringing arise out of […]

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Although many of the commercial truck crash cases we handle are caused by some combination of speed, fatigue or distraction, some also involve mechanical failure. These mechanical failures may be discovered by a motor carrier enforcement inspection after a crash, in an expert inspection our office arranges if we are hired quickly enough, or it […]

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Recently, the Pennsylvania Superior Court, in Dunlap v. Fed. Signal Corp., affirmed a trial court’s entry of summary judgment for a defendant in a products liability case wherein it was asserted that the design of the siren caused the hearing loss of a class of firefighters. 247 members of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire were plaintiffs […]

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This past Friday, a jury ordered Monsanto Co., now part of Bayer AG, to pay $289.2 million to a Roundup user who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in a landmark lawsuit over whether exposure to Monsanto’s powerful weed killers cause cancer. The jury verdict, in San Francisco Superior Court, further shines the light on Monsanto’s weed killer […]

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Recently, in the case of Walsh v. Bayer, et al., the Pennsylvania Superior Court analyzed a trial court’s dismissal of a “junk science” claim in connection with its application of Frye v. United States, 293 F. 1013 (D.C. Cir. 1923). Specifically, at issue was whether Mr. Thomas J. Walsh’s forty-year occupational exposure to defendants’ pesticides, some of […]

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In an effort to combat identity theft, the Federal Government has begun issuing new Medicare cards to all Medicare recipients. In 2015, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act required that the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) remove Social Security Numbers from Medicare cards by April 2019. The new cards will automatically be mailed […]

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Trial is under way for a 46-year-old Californian father of two, Dewayne Johnson, who is dying of cancer and suing U.S. agrochemical giant Monsanto, in the first lawsuit of its kind claiming Monsanto’s popular herbicide ‘Roundup’ causes cancer. Mr. Johnson alleges he developed non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, from his contact with and […]

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In Berg v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company (NMIC), a Pennsylvania Superior Court panel that agreed to reconsider its decision to vacate a high-profile $21 million verdict has largely reinstated the result in a new, only slightly revised, opinion. On September 4, 1996, Plaintiff, Sheryl Berg was driving her “leased” 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee when she was hit […]

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