Transportation Group’s Brian Mancos wins ballast preclusion argument for Major Railroad Client

May 3, 2010 | News

April 23, 2010 – Brian Mancos was successful in obtaining an order granting summary judgment in favor of a major railroad client in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania precluding the Plaintiff from arguing that the nature and size of...

Commercial litigator joins firm

Mar 23, 2010 | News

Pittsburgh, March 23, 2010 — Lyle Washowich, a commercial litigator representing clients in the financial, business and manufacturing industries, has joined the Pittsburgh law office. Mr. Washowich defends clients against common law and statutory putative class...

Transportation Group’s Christine Hardy wins defense verdict for Major Railroad Client

Mar 23, 2010 | News

March 23, 2010 – Christine Hardy was successful in obtaining an arbitration award in favor of a major railroad client in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiff, a 35-year-old railroad worker, sued the defendant under the...

Three attorneys join firm

Mar 1, 2010 | News

Pittsburgh, March 1, 2010 – A new member (partner) and two associate attorneys have joined the Pittsburgh office. Jeffrey A. Jackson of Sewickley, Pa., is a member practicing in the firm’s Litigation and Transportation groups. He is a trial lawyer and former...

Insurance Bad Faith Case Law Update

Jan 4, 2010 | Articles & Updates

By: John B. Cromer, Esq. In an important procedural case, The Hon. R. Stanton Wettick, Jr., of the Court of Common Please of Allegheny County, in Wutz v. Smith, revisited issues that were decided in the Gunn v. Hartford case, which was also heard by Judge Wettick in...