Defense Sends Personal Injury Lawsuit Down Amusement Park’s Lazy River
Our attorneys obtained summary judgment relief on behalf of an amusements park in a lawsuit for alleged personal injury sustained at the park’s lazy river attraction. The plaintiff and his family were business invitees at our client’s amusement and water park. The plaintiff alleged he sustained injury when he attempted to board an inner tube on the lazy river attraction, which was staffed by certified lifeguards.
Federal Court Lawsuit Against Insurance Broker Dismissed.
We obtained dismissal of claims asserted against our insurance broker client for breach of contract and declaratory judgment in connection with a COVID-related business interruption loss. The Court granted our Motion to Dismiss, determining that plaintiff restaurant lacked a viable breach of contract claim against the insurance broker, and thus that the derivative declaratory judgment claim also failed as a matter of law.
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that for purposes of filing a § 108(r) firefighter cancer claim, § 301(f)’s requirement the claim be made within 600 weeks after the last date of employment controls.
The claimant was a firefighter for the employer for 29 years, retiring in September of 2006. In 2015, he was diagnosed with kidney cancer.
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The claimant was in course of employment when she was injured from a fall while walking between a parking spot leased by her employer and employer’s building as the area was part of the employer’s premises.
In this case, the claimant slipped and fell on her walk into work from an employer-paid parking space while trying to avoid ice. The spot was in a public parking lot, located behind the employer’s building.
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