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PITTSBURGH – A state court judge has consolidated litigation connected to a Western Pennsylvania woman’s claims that a local contractor’s negligence in piercing an underground gas main and failing to report the subsequent leak led to the death of her mother from exposure to the gas.
PITTSBURGH – Peoples Natural Gas Company alleges its co-defendant is liable for negligence in piercing an underground gas main and failing to report the subsequent leak, which led to the death of the plaintiff’s mother from exposure to the gas.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania woman who claimed that a local contractor’s negligence in piercing an underground gas main and failing to report the subsequent leak led to the death of her mother from exposure to the gas, has reiterated her claims in response to the company’s denials of liability.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania woman who claimed that a local contractor’s negligence in piercing an underground gas main and failing to report the subsequent leak led to the death of her mother from exposure to the gas, seeks to add the natural gas company in question.
A Pittsburgh-area contractor said that its actions didn't rise to the level of recklessness or outrageousness needed for punitive damages in two lawsuits over a 2021 gas explosion in Blair County, Pennsylvania, and asked a state court to trim those damages out of the suits.