Tune in to Old School 100.3-FM on Sunday, July 14, at 7:00 a.m. A bill moving through the Pennsylvania Legislature, PA Senate Bill 379, would ban plaintiffs from using doctors’ apologies as proof of guilt in medical malpractice cases. If Pennsylvania passes the “apology rule,” also known as the “benevolent gesture bill,” it would be…

The family of a 16-year-old driver in Virginia was awarded $14 million in damages by a Virginia jury after the side airbag in the car the boy was driving one night in February 2010 failed to deploy after he crashed the vehicle. In its verdict, the jury ruled that Hyundai Motor America, which sold the…

When the family of a three-month-old girl brought her into the emergency room of Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Reading, Berks County, on Dec. 16, 2007, the baby was suffering from a 103-degree fever. The infant, Emma Takacs, was seen by a doctor who diagnosed her with a middle-ear infection, prescribed an antibiotic and…

Supporters of medical malpractice reform have for years pointed to huge court verdicts to plaintiffs and rising insurance rates for doctors as two prime reasons for why such reforms are needed. The problem with those claims, though, is that they are just not true. Yet these lies and innuendo continue because those are the messages…

As a decrepit building next door was being demolished as part of a renovation project, a Salvation Army thrift store on Market Street in Center City Philadelphia collapsed, trapping dozens of innocent victims under bricks, girders, wood and other heavy building materials. That disaster on June 5, 2013 has changed the lives of dozens of…

A suburban Philadelphia man who lost a leg following a 2009 car crash has received a $19.1 million award from a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury. Patrick Hennessey of Bensalem, Bucks County, who was 24 at the time of the incident on July 26, 2009, was severely injured as he helped to push a disabled…