One of our Pittsburgh based partners, Thomas Gebler, Esq., successfully extracted his two Police Officer clients, as well as the Township which employed them, from a civil action filed in the U.S. District Court, Western District. The Plaintiffs alleged the Police Officers, responding to...
A Dauphin County jury rendered a unanimous verdict of no negligence in favor of our client hospital and its attending physicians, residents and nurses after a week long trial defended by our Partner, Michael M. Badowski, Esq. This case involved a 48 year old African-American...
Plaintiffs, two chiropractors, alleged their civil rights were violated when their practice was searched and treatment records seized. In presenting their claim against a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Authority, the chiropractors alleged the Authority had established policies and procedures...
Miles A. Kirshner, Esq., a partner in our Pittsburgh office, prevailed in his Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings on behalf of our homeowner's insurance carrier client in a recent Armstrong County matter. The underlying action involved the wrongful death of Barbara Ann Van Horn who had...
This case involved alleged negligent failures on the part of the defendant pediatricians to properly assess and treat a sports related ankle injury in a nine-year-old boy who, in rapid order, went on to develop a systemic inflammatory response due to presumed sepsis which rapidly lead to a...
Philadelphia partner Tamara Chasan has obtained the dismissal of all claims against a New Jersey car dealership named in a fraud and breach of contract suit which had been filed in the United States District Court for the E.D. of Pa. Ms. Chasan filed a Motion to Dismiss the Complaint...
On May 2, 2011 Margolis Edelstein filed an Amicus Curiae Brief in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in Scampone v. Highland Park Care Center. This brief, prepared by Pittsburgh partner Miles A. Kirshner, Esq. was filed on behalf of Complete Healthcare Resources - Eastern, Inc., a...
Defendant driver rear-ended plaintiff who alleged she suffered a serious impairment of a body function, as defined by the PA Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Act. Plaintiff testified regarding the impact of her condition on day-to-day life, however, the investigation of the plaintiff's...
In a case where plaintiff alleged our insurance agent client failed to secure coverage under a homeowner's policy to cover the policyholder's mechanics tools used in his hobby of restoring antique Ford Mustangs, Steve Plonski, Esq., obtained Summary Judgment. The policy was clearly not...
Our Philadelphia partner, Michael Eiss, recently obtained dismissal of a Workers' Compensation Claim Petition. The involved claimant, a roofer, alleged he sustained permanent brain damage caused by an electrocution which occurred when a metal ladder he was setting up, contacted a high...
