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Involved In A Tractor Trailer Accident?
You were driving on the freeway with serenity. You are so relaxed as you have Adele on and you have been following her singing words for an hour now. Yes, you do this often and go from one place to another due to work.
Liability After a Truck Accident | Pennsylvania Lawyers
If you or a loved one has been injured in a truck accident and believe the driver or trucking company might be liable, you should immediately contact a truck accident attorney to assist you in collecting the essential documentation in proving liability.
Product Liability – A Guide to the Facts
A product can be poorly designed, so that it fails to discharge its intended function, and by its failure causes harm to its user.
Trucking Accident Attorney – Spoliation
Talk to any attorney about what you should do if you are ever involved in an accident with a commercial truck and they will tell you that you should contact a trucking accident attorney as soon as possible.
Why A Specialized Truck Accident Attorney?
There are laws that the trucking industry must follow to protect the public. Because of the size of these vehicles, a collision poses greater risk for injury or death. With substantial injuries, the expense of emergency care, rehabilitation, and recovery could put your life on hold.
Commercial Truck Accidents & Brake Failure
A loaded tractor trailer truck can weigh up to 40 tons – 16 times more than the average 5,000 lb car. The tremendous weight of trucks requires stringent laws to ensure that safe driving is the major concern of every truck driver- and good braking systems.
Legal Options to Consider With Your Truck Accident Lawyer
Collisions involving semi-trailer trucks happen on a daily basis. Due to the obvious size difference between a car and a big rig, when you are in a passenger vehicle, a trucking collision often results in critical injury.
Keeping An Eye On Defective Medical Device Manufacturers
An estimated 1.5 million people each year are injured because of negative side effects. Reporting negative side effects helps the FDA make vaccines, drugs and medical devices safer for everyone.
Necessary Steps to Prove Medical Malpractice
When you go to your doctor for treatment, you expect the best care. You expect the staff at your doctor’s office or hospital to follow the state guidelines for medical practice. However, on occasion, those practices and laws are not followed as closely as they should, and you may end up getting hurt.
THE VERY FIRST POST-COVID PLAINTIFF’S VERDICT AND ONE OF LARGEST VERDICT IN BRADFORD COUNTY HISTORY
Michael Pisanchyn was lead trial counsel with Douglas Yazinski and Bradley Moyer sitting second chair. The Defendant Monroeton Rod and Gun Club was represented by 1) Donald Carmelite, 2) Scott Gemberling and 3) Mathew Kerris sitting second chair all from Marshall Dennehey and also 4) Patrick Heffron of Chartwell Law. The Defendant Driver was represented by Attorney Robert Muolo from Wiest Muolo Noon Swinehart and Bathgate. The trial took place for 5 days with the jury deliberating about 90 minutes.
Michael Pisanchyn Obtains $2.3 Million for Client
A $2.3 million resolution will keep the community safe from bars and restaurants who serve people too much to drink, said an attorney representing Scott Bitler’s family.
$2.3 Recovery Dram Shop – Pennsylvania Jury & Verdict Review
This dram shop action arose from an automobile accident involving a head-on collision caused by a drunk driver after he consumed alcohol at two Northumberland County, Pennsylvania bars. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant bars served the driver alcohol while he was visibly intoxicated.
Berks County Children’s Home Hit With $3M Verdict for Teenage Girl’s Death
A Philadelphia jury handed down a nearly $3 million verdict against a Berks County children's residential treatment home accused of ignoring the warning signs of a mentally ill teenager's intent to commit suicide. By P.J. D'Annunzio | April 09, 2019 at 03:53 PM A Philadelphia jury handed down a nearly $3 million verdict against a [...]
Family of teen who committed suicide awarded $2.9 million against treatment facility
BY TERRIE MORGAN-BESECKER Apr 9, 2019 Updated Apr 17, 2020 Comments A Philadelphia County jury awarded more than $2.9 million to the father of a teenager who committed suicide after running away from a Berks County residential treatment facility. Calvin Long of Wernersville filed suit against Bethany Children's Home in Womelsdorf, alleging staff there was [...]
Philadelphia Jury Awards $3 Million in Wrongful Death Case
$3 million was awarded to the father of a 16-year-old girl who committed suicide in 2015 while she resided at the Bethany Children’s Home. A Philadelphia jury found Bethany Children’s Home negligent for not properly supervising the young woman, resulting in her leaving the campus unsupervised – despite the law requiring her to be supervised off the grounds while under their care.
Jury awards $2.9 million in wrongful death case against Bethany Children’s Home
A Philadelphia jury awarded $2.9 million to the father of a 16-year-old girl who committed suicide in 2015 while she resided at the Bethany Children’s Home in western Berks County, according to court documents.
Lawsuit alleges eastern Pa. man harbored dangerous wolf-dog hybrid
Patrick Varine | Thursday, September 6, 2018 5:06 p.m. The family of a Scranton toddler who was attacked by a dog this past May is suing the dog’s owner, accusing him of harboring an exotic wolf-dog hybrid he knew to be dangerous. Katelyn Davis’ 2-year-old son, who is not identified by name in the lawsuit, [...]
Lawsuit: 9-year-old boy was abused at now-closed youth home
ZELIENOPLE. Pa. — A new lawsuit has been filed against a now-shuttered Butler County youth home with a troubled history after allegations that a young child was sexually abused there. Glade Run Lutheran Services closed in 2015 amid several abuse claims that were reported to the state's Department of Human Services. A lawsuit was settled [...]
New lawsuit filed against Glade Run Lutheran claims another boy was sexually assaulted
Michael DiVittorio | Thursday, January 10, 2019 6:32 p.m. The parent organization that ran a since-closed Zelienople youth home and recently settled a lawsuit filed on behalf of a teenage sexual assault victim faces a new lawsuit of a similar nature. Attorney Michael Pisanchyn Jr. of the Pittsburgh-based Pisanchyn Law Firm filed the suit this [...]
Pisanchyn Law Firm Obtains Settlement for Sexual Abuse Victim
The Pisanchyn Law Firm has reached settlement for its sexual abuse suit with Glade Run, a nonprofit that provides youth services. The confidential settlement will enable the family of the young victim, who suffered abuse at Glade Run’s Zelienople youth service program, to adequately care for his needs for the rest of his life. The [...]