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Obtained a defense verdict at arbitration on behalf of a tenant renting a single family home. As part of a Memorial Day picnic at his rented home, the defendant set up an inflatable water slip-n-slide in the middle of the back yard for the use and enjoyment of his guests. The plaintiff claimed that a dangerous slippery condition existed on a grassy sloped portion of the property some distance from the slip-n-slide. The plaintiff was walking to the back yard from the side of the house down the sloped grassy area when she slipped and fell fracturing her ankle.

Obtained summary judgment, in advance of any depositions, on behalf of a scaffold erection contractor in a personal injury action with a low seven-figure exposure. The case was filed in New York County by a construction worker who fell from our client’s scaffolding.

Obtained summary judgment in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in a premises liability case against our client, a manufacturer of forged steel wheels used in the railroad industry. The plaintiff alleged she was exposed to asbestos dust allegedly brought home on the work clothes of her husband, who worked at a local steel plant for two years in the 1970s. In 2013, the plaintiff developed mesothelioma. She and her husband filed suit against our client, a limited liability company. The company was formed 30 years after the husband worked at the steel plant.

Obtained a defense verdict in favor of a major Orlando theme park following a seven-day jury trial. The plaintiff alleged that he slipped and fell on the handle of an unattended dustpan in the bathroom of a park pavilion. He was subsequently diagnosed with avascular necrosis of the right hip, permanent back pain, and memory problems from post-concussion syndrome. A core decompression surgery was performed on his right hip but failed to alleviate his pain.

A municipal police officer received a complaint that an unknown male attempted to lure a 15-year-old female into his car. A day later, the victim and her mother went to the police department and advised the same officer that the victim saw the suspect car and followed it to a local business. When the driver exited the vehicle, the victim viewed him and was adamant that he was the individual who attempted to lure her into the same car the previous day. The officer prepared a photo array that contained a photograph of the owner of the vehicle, which the victim immediately

Representing one of the largest law firms in the country, Marshall Dennehey's professional liability attorneys obtained a defense verdict in a three-week legal malpractice trial in Pennsylvania, where the plaintiffs claimed in excess of $18 Million. The plaintiff automobile dealerships, related entities and their owners discovered in the summer of 2005 that they were $7 million out of trust with their bank as a result of an alleged fraud perpetrated by their Chief Financial Officer. The plaintiffs claimed that the CFO tricked the bank's third-party car counter into verifyi

. The defense prevailed on a motion to dismiss before the Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. The client was the loaner bank in an adversary proceeding wherein the plaintiff, as co-signer of pre-petition loans, asserted allegations of fraud in the inducement and equitable fraud against the debtor, the borrower, and the bank.  Pre-petition, the plaintiff had filed a civil action in New Jersey Superior Court against the soon-to-be debtor and borrower. The state court action was subject to an automatic stay in accordance with Section 362 of the Bank

Marshall Dennehey attorneys prevailed on an appeal in the Third Circuit, which affirmed a dismissal obtained in the District Court in favor of a matrimonial attorney who, along with her firm and client, was the subject of claims for legal malpractice, conversion, and misappropriation of trust funds arising out of an order in an underlying matrimonial action. The case spanned 25 years and invoked the jurisdiction of several state and federal courts. The plaintiff, in the district court action, brought common-law fraud and §1983 claims against the matrimonial attorney, and her

Marshall Dennehey won a Third Circuit victory over a former teacher who appealed a summary judgment ruling in favor of the teacher's Pennsylvania school district. The teacher was fired for performance reasons but claimed she was fired in violation of the First Amendment's protection over free speech when she unwittingly allowed crude and profane comments she blogged about her students and colleagues to leak into the public realm. The Third Circuit affirmed the trial court's ruling that her speech wasn't protected, leaving no genuine issue of fact for deliberation b

Marshall Dennehey's appellate attorneys filed an amicus curiae brief for the Pennsylvania Defense Institute in a case in which the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously upheld the reversal of a multimillion dollar verdict against an electric company on the basis that the plaintiff had not satisfied the "retained control" exception to the general rule of non-liability for independent contractors. The decision resulted in a judgment notwithstanding the verdict for the electric company.  Nertavich v. PPL Electric Utilities, No.