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Negligent Operation of Tractor-Trailer Leads to Rear-End Collision

Publication: American Association for Justice Date: September 2019 Jorge Amparo, 45, was traveling on an interstate highway in rainy conditions during heavy traffic. Evans Delivery Co. driver Jose Ayala was operating an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer in the roadway’s middle or left lane while talking on his cellphone. As Amparo stopped for traffic in the left lane, Ayala rear-ended […]

Widow Settles Suit with Easton Doctor

Agreement details are kept secret; she had sought $2 million. Publication: The Morning Call Date: May 1999 The widow of a Bethlehem man has settled out of court with an Easton radiologist and his employer, all of whom she said failed to identify her husband’s cancer in time to prevent his death at age 42. […]

City Couple Win Negligence Suit

Case against podiatrist ends in $3.5 million award; settlement reached earlier. Publication: The Morning Call Date: 2001 A Lehigh County jury recently awarded an Allentown woman and her husband $3.5 million in a lawsuit that claimed medical negligence left the woman with a disabling condition. Jurors found that a podiatrist was negligent in his care […]

Sedan hit from behind by tractor-trailer

Tractor-Trailer — Rear-ender — Weather Conditions Publication: Verdictsearch Pennsylvania – Monroe / Northampton Date: February 2004 SETTLEMENT $1,000,000 CASE Margaret Vietro v. Harry M. Fetterman and Rollin E. Johnson Trucking Inc., No. C0048CV2001007242 COURT Northampton County Court of Common Pleas, PA JUDGE Michael V. Franciosa DATE 5/19/2003 PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY(S) Todd S. Miller, Todd S. Miller […]

Malpractice suit ends in $1.25 million award

An Emmaus family said doctors failed to diagnose and treat a boy’s kidney disorder. It took jury 3½ hours to agree. A Northampton County jury awarded $1.25 million to an Emmaus family that claimed pediatricians failed to diagnose and treat a boy’s kidney disorder. The jury deliberated about 3½ hours Friday before finding that Drs. […]

Settlement reached in drowning

Family of woman who died in pool at Whitehall apartment in 2003 signs $900,000 agreement with owners of complex, ending suit. Publication: The Morning Call Date: November 2006 The family of a 19-year-old woman who drowned in a swimming pool at a Whitehall Township apartment complex in 2003 has agreed to a $900,000 settlement to […]

Tobyhanna woman is awarded $1.75 million for doctors’ negligence

Northampton jury finds physicians failed to promptly diagnose and treat her condition, leaving her incontinent. Publication: The Morning Call Date: 2000 A Northampton County jury on Friday awarded $1.75 million to a Tobyhanna Township woman who became permanently incontinent after doctors failed to properly and promptly diagnose and treat her condition. The jury sat through […]

Family settles in wrongful death suit

Publication: The Morning Call Date: 1994 By: Rice-Mauer The Attorney of an Allentown woman who died after undergoing an operation that was to alleviate heartburn was a week into presenting testimony to a Northampton County jury when a settlement was reached Monday. “It’s settled and I’m not allowed to disclose any of the terms of […]

Surgery Triggered Woman’s Death Family’s Suit Says

Publication: The Morning Call Date: May 1994 By: Susan Todd The family of a 30-year-old Allentown woman, who believed surgery would end a yearlong bout of heartburn, filed a lawsuit yesterday alleging an Allentown Osteopathic Medical Center surgeon performed an unnecessary and incompetent operation that led to her death. Marilu Santiago, an unemployed, single mother […]

Parents, doctor settle lawsuit in boy’s blindness

Publication: The Morning Call By: Debbie Garlicki Parents of an 8½-year-old boy and the doctor they claim is responsible for his blindness this week settled a malpractice suit after their trial started in Lehigh County Court. William and Barbara Weaver of 202 N. Irving St., Allentown, settled their suit against Dr. Harvey S. Cheng for […]

$250,000 awarded for loss of eye

Jury says inn negligent for letting worker take glass outside Publication: The Morning Call Date: 1988 By: John Clark’ A former Coopersburg man has been awarded $250,000 in damages by a Lehigh County Court judge after a jury found the Spring Valley Inn negligent in an incident that cost the man his right eye. Ronald […]

LVH settles lawsuit over leg amputations

Coplay man claimed delayed care resulted in the loss of his legs. Publication: The Morning Call Date: April 2003 Lehigh Valley Hospital has settled a lawsuit filed by a Coplay man who said delayed care resulted in his legs being amputated above the knees. Melvin Billig and his wife, Winifred, of 105 S. Eighth St., […]