Nov 1, 2012 | News
PITTSBURGH, November 1, 2012 — Burns White earned a national first-tier ranking in railroad law for the third year running and three metropolitan first-tier rankings in Pittsburgh for mass tort litigation/class actions defense, personal injury litigation defense and...
Oct 31, 2012 | News
A Philadelphia County court ruled favorably in a case where a hospital client, along with an affiliated physician and a nonprofit organization, were facing allegations of pneumonia diagnosis and treatment failure that ultimately caused a patient’s death. Represented...
Oct 17, 2012 | News
Member Stuart T. O’Neal received dismissals recently in two liability-related matters for hospitals belonging to the same health system client. In the first case, the estate of a 54-year-old man alleged that a hospital emergency room (ER) was responsible for not...
Oct 12, 2012 | News
Earlier this month, Member John B. Cromer secured a directed verdict ruling for an environmental services client who, along with a subconsulting entity, was facing breach of contract and professional negligence allegations in the design of a water treatment plant that...
Oct 10, 2012 | News
October 17, 2012 — Burns White Members Stuart T. O’Neal and Sheila M. Burke, and Associate Kara C. White were appointed to serve new board and committee positions of the Professional Liability Defense Federation (PLDF) at its annual conference in Chicago, Sept. 26-27,...
Oct 9, 2012 | News
Brian M. Mancos, an Associate in the Transportation Group, successfully obtained an order granting a motion for summary judgment in favor of two major railroad clients in the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The plaintiff, a 59-year-old former...
