August 7, 2010
purchase, george & murphey.
purchase, george & murphey.
August 7, 2010
August 7, 2010
On July 21, 2010 the Superior Court issued an opinion in the matter of Sackett v. Nationwide Insurance Company. This opinion comes on the heels of two prior Supreme Court opinions in the same case and the opinions have come to be known as Sackett I, II & III. The Sackett saga began with Nationwide’s refusal to pay its own…
August 7, 2010
A well known Jamaican resort has recently settled a Pennsylvania wrongful death claim arising out of the death of an Erie, Pennsylvania man who was staying at the resort with his family to attend a wedding. Beaches Sandy Bay of Negril, Jamaica, paid $6.5 million dollars to settle the Erie wrongful death case arising out of the death of Jarred…
August 5, 2010
The Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure and Wrong Person Surgery became effective July 1, 2004 for all accredited hospitals, ambulatory care and office-based surgery facilities. The Universal Protocol was created to address the continuing problem of wrong site, wrong procedure and wrong person surgery in American hospitals. The Universal Protocol drew upon recommendations that had been made…
August 4, 2010
The first edition of The Ultimate Guide to Car Accident Cases in Pennsylvania: A Roadmap to Justice has been out only a week and already readers are calling in their edits. Most are helpful. Some deal with typos. But one mistake led to a wildly inflated value and so we note it here and promise to have it corrected for…
August 2, 2010
On August 1, 2010, Christa Logue was driving her 2006 Dodge Caravan south on I-79 in Erie County, Pennsylvania when she apparently lost control, hit the median strip and caused a rollover car accident. Her 14 year old son, Joshua Gibson, was thrown from the vehicle and killed. Ms. Logue has been charged with DUI and reportedly had a blood…
August 2, 2010
The Erie Times News reports that William D. McCray was killed Sunday, August 1, 2010 in an Erie County motorcycle head on collision on Route 77 in Richmond Township, Pennsylvania. Reportedly, Mr. McCray was westbound on Route 77 when he passed on a hill. An eastbound Saturn coupe apparently crested the hill and struck Mr. McCray head-on. None else was…