Pennsylvania

In a September 2023, ruling, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania affirmed summary judgment in a slip and fall case involving “generally slippery” conditions. Plaintiff slipped and fell because of an unsafe ‘accumulation of ice and snow in the parking lot.’” Grace v. Graystone Court Villas LLC, No. 1208 WDA 2022, 2023 WL 5950946.  Despite the […]

In the recent case of Short v. Pfizer Inc., the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held that Under Pennsylvania law, increased “risk of developing cancer does not constitute an injury.” The Defendant Pfizer was the manufacturer and distributer of the drug hydrochlorothiazide (“Hydro”).  Plaintiff-Short was prescribed Hydro for almost twenty […]

We are still on watch for a current pending Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that could impact Amazon’s liability in this case. In Oberdorf v. Amazon.com Inc., 930 F.3d 136, 150 (3d Cir.), reh’g en banc granted, opinion vacated, 936 F.3d 182 (3d Cir. 2019), the plaintiff filed a strict products liability action against Amazon alleging […]

Under Daubert, experts must have relevant qualifications to testify to relevant industry standards. In McConn v Dollar General Corporation., 2022 WL 17750490 (W.D. Pa. Dec. 19, 2022), plaintiff claimed that when she attempted to remove a book from a bookcase in Dollar General, books began falling on her and a rack that holds the book […]

In Cote v. Schnell Industries, 2022 WL 16814032 (M.D. Pa. Nov. 8. 2022), Cote was injured while working at a transfer yard moving sand used in “fracking” operations from railcars to tractor-trailers for delivery to fracking customers. When Cote reached his hand into a piece of equipment to dislodge the wet sand so the sand could […]