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Having a baby is often a joyous event, however, complications may arise, causing lifelong defects and other issues that may affect an infant’s ability to grow and enjoy life fully. Birth injuries are caused by a number of reasons, including the baby’s position or size during labor as well as the possibilities of gestational diabetes and premature or prolonged labor. Many birth injuries in Pennsylvania are mino [...]

A woman in her 60s was hit by a SEPTA bus on June 22 near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. According to this article on Philly.com, the Route 32 bus was traveling south on 21st Street when it struck the woman as it was turning east on Winter Street. The woman was walking north on 21st and was crossing Winter. She was hospitalized with head and foot injuries. According to the Pennsylvania Department [...]

On June 13, a limousine filled with passengers was struck by another vehicle along Church Road in New Hanover, PA. According to this article in the Delaware County Times, eight people were taken to hospitals because of injuries. The article reported that when police arrived on the scene on the 3300 block of Church Road, each driver was still trapped inside their vehicles. Sean Lawrence, 25, was driving his 1988 [...]

Thomas Patrick Brandon was making a delivery to the Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania on the morning of April 13, 2009 when his delivery truck crashed into a car stopped for a traffic light on Route 202. According to this article in the Delaware County Times, it caused the car to burst into flames, killing its driver, Daniel Lopez, of Phoenixville. Brandon, 48, of Penndel, Bucks County, will begin an 11½- to [...]

Justin Plank, a 21-year-old man, was injured on May 12 at a gas station in Norwalk, CT after a steel beam fell off a payloader and struck him in the leg. According to this article, Plank was guiding a 16-foot steel pillar into place at when a chain wrapped around the claw-bucket holding the beam slipped. The beam crashed to the ground and cut a gash into his lower left leg. Plank, who works for East Hartford-based [...]

The city of Chester is located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania and has an approximate population of 36,564. Chester is situated near the southeastern region of PA along the Delaware River and is right between Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware. Widely known for being a great spot for businesses looking for easy access to the Greater Philadelphia area, Chester attracts several new residents and visitors every ye [...]

As the largest city in the state of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia is ranked at number six for the most densely inhabited city in the U.S. The city proper had a population of over approximately 1.54 million in 2008 and the Greater Philadelphia metropolitan region had about 5.8 million, making it the fifth largest in the country. Often referred to as “Philly” and sometimes “The City of Brotherly Love,” Philadelp [...]

On May 13, a jury awarded Rosalyn James $2.185 million in a Philadelphia medical malpractice suit against St. Joseph’s Hospital and two emergency-room physicians. Her husband, Zachary James, died at the North Philadelphia hospital when his heart stopped beating on April 20, 2006. According to this article in the Philadelphia Daily News, Mrs. James filed a lawsuit claiming her husband’s death may have been prev [...]

A construction worker was seriously injured by a two-floor fall as he worked on a home in Mahwah, NJ. According to this article on northjersey.com, the man was trying to help brace drywall being lifted into the second floor of a new-construction home when the drywall started to fall backward, throwing the man onto a plywood floor on the first level. The 24-year-old worker from Elmwood Park landed on his back and wa [...]