The family of a 14-year-old boy who drowned in an apartment complex swimming pool in Swatara Township near Harrisburg in June 2015 has reached a $6 million settlement with several defendants in connection with the boy’s death. The boy, Benjamin Dodoo, died June 17, 2015, while he swam in a pool at the Aspen Hill…

A Beaver County woman who was a passenger in a car that was hit head-on by a drunk driver in New Brighton, Pa., in July 2012 has been awarded $1.19 million in damages by a jury in her underinsured motorist (UIM) claim against an insurance company. The victim, Britney Alviani, was a passenger in a…

This week on Court Radio, Dean Weitzman and Irena Shiloh of MyPhillyLawyer answer questions from callers about legal domestic relation issues.

More than $70 million in settlements are expected for the families of five nursing students who were killed in April 2015 when the two vehicles they were traveling in on a Georgia highway were struck from behind by a tractor-trailer that failed to stop when traffic came to a halt. The students were carpooling to…

This week on Court Radio, Dean Weitzman and Becky Dansky from the Marijuana Policy Project talk about Senate Bill #3 – the legalization of medical marijuana, and what this could mean moving forward.

A Philadelphia woman who experienced an adverse reaction to blood anti-coagulation medication and was left with a serious brain injury as a result has been awarded a $44 million verdict by a Court of Commons Pleas jury in Philadelphia. The woman, Andrea Tate, had gone to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in September…