In June of 2010, Stanley Zarzecki, a 32-year-old cellular network installer, was working one night after a storm on the top of a 10-story building in Philadelphia making upgrades on antennas and related systems. As he worked, he turned to try to communicate with other workers below and plunged from the roof to his death,…

The deaths of two young men in a July 31 boat collision near San Diego, Calif., are the latest tragedies on the waters across our nation. Their deaths follow a July 4 incident in Miami that killed four people when three pleasure boats collided near a Miami marina. Both incidents are stark reminders to us…

A Pennsylvania judge has ordered Nationwide Insurance to pay an $18 million “bad faith” damage award to a family after the company allegedly had the family’s severely damaged vehicle repaired even after an outside appraisal firm deemed that the vehicle should be replaced for safety. The plaintiffs, Berks County residents Daniel and Sheryl Berg, “took…

A 27-year-old man who was scheduled to play professional soccer in Colombia after college has received a $3.34 million medical malpractice verdict from a Philadelphia jury to compensate him after a problematic groin surgery left him unable to pursue his soccer career. The former athlete, Juan Duque, was injured during surgery in 2009 which left…

As he drove his 1999 Acura Integra along a Maryland road in May 2010, a tire on Carlos Martinez’s car blew out after striking a nail, causing the car to veer off the road, go into a ditch and roll over multiple times. The crash, which occurred at about 33 mph, caused catastrophic injuries to…

When Jeanne Ellis went to a hospital emergency room in October 2006 in Boston complaining of a persistent cough, a doctor ordered a chest X-ray and then sent her home with antibiotics to treat what he said was an upper respiratory infection. Thirteen months later, as her symptoms worsened, Ellis again went to the hospital,…