Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Suits Continue to Decline
Posted on Monday, May 30th, 2011
The number of medical malpractice cases filed against Pennsylvania doctors and hospitals dropped in 2010, the sixth consecutive annual decline.
“In reality, medical malpractice lawsuits are not as prolific as people think,” Pittsburgh attorney George Kontos [...]
Discharges of Fracking Waste Into Pennsylvania Waterways Will End Next Month
Posted on Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Pennsylvania environmental regulators have announced that natural gas drillers are close to ending one of the most controversial practices associated with hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. According to a report from the Associated Press, the state’s [...]
continue readingNursing Home Norovirus Warning Issued in Pennsylvania
Posted on Sunday, December 5th, 2010
Pennsylvania nursing homes and hospitals reported an increased number of cases of gastrointestinal illness, which are consistent with recurring outbreaks of the highly contagious norovirus and norovirus-like illnesses nationwide.
With a new norovirus season approaching, the [...]
Philly blocks still not recovered from ’85 bombing
Posted on Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Twenty-five years after Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a residential block, the neighborhood is still struggling to recover.
Police were trying to arrest members of the militant group MOVE on May 13, 1985. The botched [...]
Malpractice Lawsuits Decline in Pa.
Posted on Friday, April 23rd, 2010
In 2009, the number of new medical-malpractice lawsuits filed in Pennsylvania courts fell for the fifth straight year, according to a report released Tuesday by Pennsylvania Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille.
The report provides new evidence [...]
Pennsylvania Ordered to Add Millions to Malpractice Fund
Posted on Monday, April 19th, 2010
A state court has ruled that Pennsylvania has mishandled a fund to help physicians pay malpractice premiums and ordered the state to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars out of its general fund to resolve [...]
continue reading2 medics to be disciplined in Pa. snowstorm death
Posted on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
At least two Pittsburgh paramedics will be disciplined in the death of a man who waited 30 hours for an ambulance during a powerful snowstorm last month.
Paramedics union President Anthony Weinmann said Monday two union [...]
Family plans lawsuit over Pa. teen’s beating
Posted on Thursday, January 28th, 2010
The family of a Pittsburgh teenager who alleges police officers brutally beat him are planning to file a civil rights lawsuit against the police department.
Family attorney John Lewis says the lawsuit has been drafted but [...]
Huge Philly Apartment Fire Leaves 21 Injured
Posted on Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Fire investigators in Philadelphia are trying to determine what caused a weekend apartment fire that left nearly two dozen people hurt, including two firefighters.
Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers says the five-alarm fire at the Austin Manor [...]
$12.5 Million Settlement in Pennsylvania Shooting Case
Posted on Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Pennsylvania will pay $12.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the father of a 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by troopers after he hopped out of a stolen vehicle.
A federal jury in Pittsburgh [...]