A 69-year-old St. Paul, Minn., man has reached a $500,000 settlement with the city after he was severely hurt by a flying 800-pound tree as it was being cut down by city forestry department employees in January 2013. The tree was diagnosed as having Dutch elm disease, which required its removal, according to an Oct.…

SEPTA Drivers Cheating Red Lights And Stop Signs One Reason For Injuries Says Attorney Weitzman During a recent segment on FOX 29, personal injury attorney Dean Weitzman of MyPhillyLawyer discussed how reckless bus drivers put countless lives in danger by ignoring traffic signals throughout Philadelphia. “Drivers need to understand and really appreciate that they have…

Premises liability lawsuits, also known as slip-and-fall claims, can have a number of different outcomes. This may sound self-evident, but a review of recent cases in Philadelphia and elsewhere illustrates the complexity of these case. Long Waits for Decisions Slip-and-fall cases that could be resolved promptly sometimes drag on. For example, an Amtrak worker who…

Philadelphia’s main provider of public transportation service, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) carries millions of passengers each year. Serving Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties, SEPTA operates buses, trolleys, trackless trolleys (trolley buses), subways and commuter rail lines. The mass transit operation is the sixth largest in the United States in terms of…

Recent research studies have suggested that there is a link between taking the popular erectile dysfunction pill Viagra, manufactured by Pfizer, and the deadly skin cancer melanoma. Articles about this research have stressed that there is no evidence that taking Viagra causes melanoma – just that there is a connection. The Research Path From Viagra…

There have been more than 60,000 lawsuits filed over transvaginal mesh (TVM) and bladder slings, medical device products that are used to address stress urinary incontinence in women. Devices are made of strips of surgical mesh and are inserted through one incision in the vagina and two in the abdomen. The plaintiffs in the lawsuits…