Mar 25, 2019 | News
Jessica Gangjee, the Director of Recruitment and Professional Development, has been selected to serve on Law360’s 2019 Legal Industry Editorial Advisory Board. She joins seven other advisory board members, offering feedback on Law360’s coverage and...
Mar 4, 2019 | News
Burns White attorney, Jessica M. Jurasko, has been selected as a 2019 Fellow by the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD). As a participant in this nationally recognized program, Ms. Jurasko will learn to identify, educate, and advance the next generation of...
Feb 28, 2019 | News
On February 27, 2019, the Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed a defense verdict entered in the bellwether case of the Cardiac Stent litigation, which has been ongoing in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania since 2011. The Cardiac Stent litigation involves over 100...
Feb 21, 2019 | News
Attorney Daniel J. Twilla recently obtained a defense verdict on behalf of an insurer in a bad faith case following a non-jury trial in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The Plaintiffs alleged that the insurer had failed to timely and...
Feb 11, 2019 | News
Plaintiff sued two Class I railroads in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania alleging that he developed lung cancer as a result of his alleged exposures to asbestos and diesel exhaust while working as a machinist in the Juniata, Pennsylvania shop from 1976-2007. The...
Feb 7, 2019 | News
Attorneys Kevin Alexandersen and Colleen Mountcastle obtained summary disposition in favor of the railroad in three Michigan cases in which former railroad employees claimed the development of lung or prostate cancer due to alleged workplace exposures. In Wayne County...