It is common in construction disputes between sophisticated parties for the parties to agree to engage in a bench trial, as opposed to a trial by jury.

States, including the Commonwealth, enjoy immunity from suit and have since “before the ratification of the Constitution.” Goldman v. Septa, 57 A.3d 1154, 1172 (Pa. 2012) (quoting Alden v. Maine, 527 U.S. 706, 713 (1999)).

Both the trial court and the Superior Court found that the plaintiff’s claims were barred by the no felony conviction recovery rule.

The trial court had ordered production of patient safety reports which were (i) prepared in accordance with MCARE, (ii) intended to be confidential, and (iii) contained information identical to that conveyed to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Auth

The trial court entered nonsuit on the plaintiff’s corporate negligence claim as the case did not involve any kind of systemic negligence on the part of the hospital.

The plaintiff and her husband, by way of a per quod claim, initiated a medical malpractice action against the defendants for, among other things, their alleged failure to administer pain injections at the correct vertebrae of the plaintif

In a tragic, fatal collision between a tractor trailer and a passenger vehicle, which was disabled after striking a deer, the issue presented to the court was relative to whether a “broker” company that arranged for the specific motor carrier to s

A fantastic set of facts saw a lower court’s ruling affirmed by the appellate court when a motorist/decedent, whose actions were interpreted as “intentional” and could ultimately have been suicidal, created two collisions with tractor trailers whi

This matter may be a perfect example of the strategic benefit of litigating in federal court as opposed to New York State courts whenever possible.

The plaintiffs’ sought to obtain a preclusion of expert evidence and adverse inference at trial for failure to maintain video after an infant plaintiff disembarked one school bus and was struck by another company’s school bus, causing serious inju