Lackawanna County Courthouse Kelly Ciravolo and Jamie Anzalone BY JOSEPH KOHUT | STAFF WRITE | Lackawanna County Courthouse | TIMES-TRIBUNE FILE A Lackawanna County jury awarded $300,000 to the estate of a woman whose broken hip from a fall at a Scranton personal care home was exacerbated by the way staff then moved her. A…
Pennsylvania Association for Justice MEDICAL MALPRACTICE MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR – PATRICK J. DOYLE, JR., ESQ. By way of order dated August 25, 2022, the late Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Max Baer, leveled the playing field for victims of medical negligence. For two decades, victims of medical negligence were treated differently than…
Jamie Anzalone, Esq. has prosecuted multiple nursing home neglect cases and commented “We see, unfortunately, that local nursing homes are either understaffed or being staffed incorrectly,” Anzalone said. “When there is not enough of them or they are not skilled enough, injuries occur.” BY TERRIE MORGAN-BESECKER STAFF WRITER | CITIZENS’ VOICE No one paid attention…
By Ed Lewis (Times Leader) WILKES-BARRE — A Hazle Township former restaurant owner sentenced to three years probation for groping a teenage female employee is the subject of a civil lawsuit filed in Luzerne County Court by the girl. Harry Werkeiser, 69, of state Route 940, Harleigh, hired a then 17-year-old girl to be a…