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PHILADELPHIA – The manufacturers of weed killer Roundup have lost a third trial in Philadelphia and were hit with its largest-ever verdict at a whopping cost of $2.25 billion, not long after local juries handed down a $175 million verdict award to plaintiffs in the first case and a $3.5 million award in the second. ....
ALLENTOWN – A federal judge has ruled that the biological father of one girl among two killed in a fatal house fire in Hellertown in April 2022, a fire started by a hoverboard device which malfunctioned while charging, is not eligible to recover damages under the Wrongful Death Act. ....
PHILADELPHIA – A fatal apartment house fire in Philadelphia, which took place in January 2022 and caused the deaths of 12 people, has not only spawned a state court wrongful death lawsuit, but now a federal court civil rights lawsuit. ....
PHILADELPHIA – The manufacturers of weed killer product Roundup are seeking to overturn a $175 million verdict reached in a Philadelphia court, the first local result in a trial series featuring the product, because they say the presiding judge’s instructions unfairly swayed the jury into voting for the plaintiffs. ....
PHILADELPHIA – Panera Bread Company has fully denied liability in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the parents of a University of Pennsylvania student, who died in 2021 allegedly after drinking a highly caffeinated lemonade beverage sold by the restaurant chain and one to which no warning of its high caffeine content was provided. ....