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DLP Reviews MEDICAL MALPRACTICE Claims

Joe Price — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:59:12 +0000

Attorney Patrick Dougherty announced today that he, Attorney Joseph Price and Attorney Brian Walsh are reviewing and investigating several potential medical malpractice cases in NEPA. More information on the case results will be forthcoming according to Attorney Dougherty.

NEPA AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT/GAS TRUCK ACCIDENT LAWYERS: DLP–Natural Gas Regulation/Tax Bill Up For Vote

Joe Price — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:54:13 +0000

Republican Legislative leaders in Harrisburg announced that the natural gas regulatory and tax bill long awaited by Pennsylvania residents has been moved out of committee along strict party lines. The bill will be up for vote today in both the House and Senate. There will be no debate or room for amendments according to Republican leaders. Committee meetings to reach a compromise were held out of public view. The vote on the bill corresponds with Governor Corbett presenting his 2012 budget. The natural gas drilling tax bill levies an “impact fee” on each drilling rig site. The tax is optional for each county. The bill also cuts local control over drilling rig zoning regulations. The bill additionally increases the distance a natural gas drilling rig can be located from a well and public water source. The 13 Trial Lawyers at DLP continue to follow these and other Marcellus Shale gas drilling issues in NEPA and Central Pennsylvania affecting our clients injured in serious and catastrophic AUTO ACCIDENTS, GAS TRUCK ACCIDENTS, BIG TRUCK ACCIDENTS, Quarry Accidents, Blasting and Explosion Accidents, Product Liability cases and other personal injury matters.

Pennsylvania AUTO/Gas Truck Accident Lawyers: DLP—Gas Tax/Regulation Bill On Horizon?

Joe Price — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:54:01 +0000

Reports today, citing a letter circulated by Republican leadership in Harrisburg, indicate that a compromise tax and regulatory bill may come up for a vote this week. The letter sent to Republican members of the Senate and House notes that a compromise has been worked out after weeks of closed door meetings. Details of the plan may be released as early as today. Democrats almost surely will question or oppose the natural gas drilling regulations if the proposal is as expected.

Pennsylvania /NEPA AUTO ACCIDENT LAWYERS–DLP

Joe Price — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:58:09 +0000

As the 13 Trial Lawyers at DLP continue to represent many more clients involved in serious/catastrophic AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS, gas truck/big truck traffic continues to increase in the Marcellus Shale regions of NEPA. DLP has ongoing referral relationships with numerous lawyers in NEPA and Central Pennsylvania. DLP lawyers make house calls and are available 24 hours per day to answer all questions about AUTO ACCIDENTS and resulting damages.

Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale AUTO ACCIDENT LAWYERS: DLP—Cabot Gas: OOPS! Our Mistake!!!

Joe Price — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:53:07 +0000

The battle over clean drinking water in Dimmock Township, Susquehanna County , Pa. took a strange turn when Cabot Gas admitted that data used to support its position was wrong and resulted from simple human error. Cabot has always denied that its gas drilling efforts polluted drinking water wells in the township. The DEP permitted Cabot to cease providing fresh water to the residents claiming pollution. The Federal EPA reviewed the problem and found different results. Cabot issued a press release claiming that the EPA used water from the Montrose watershed and that arsenic reading were from those samples. Today Cabot backtracked acknowledging that the Montros water samples did NOT contain pollutants and that Cabot had entered data improperly. It seems that the debate over clean water will continue. EPA ordered residents to receive fresh water until further notice.

Bradford County Quarry Explosion Case Update

Joe Price — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:43:53 +0000

Attorneys Paul Oven and Joseph Price travelled to the explosion site of a blasting accident in Bradford County where a DLP client suffered serious injuries. The case, referred by a local lawyer from Bradford County is ongoing and in pre-litigation at this time.

DLP Representing Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Victims

Joe Price — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:41:19 +0000

Attorneys Judy Price, Paul Oven and Joseph Price of DLP continue to represent clients injured in a carbon monoxide poisoning case. Medical information is being collected and clients are being monitored. More information will be posted in the near future.

Pennsylvania TRUCK ACCIDENT LAWYERS–DLP–Three new truck accident cases.

Joe Price — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:38:56 +0000

Partner Joseph Price of DLP announced that the firm has been hired to represent seriously injured clients involved in three big truck/ tractor trailer accidents. Investigations are ongoing in Wyoming and Luzerne Counties Pennsylvania and in the Newark New Jersey area of Interstate I-78. More details to follow.

Pennsylvania Serious AUTO ACCIDENT Lawyers—Quite A Bit Of Marcellus Shale News Today

Joe Price — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:35:33 +0000

There is quite a bit of news floating around today in the Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling region. In NEPA the local water company in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania American Water is upset that Cabot Gas alleged that the tainted water samples cited by the EPA in the Dimmock Township water pollution fight came from PAW’s Montrose water shed. PAW officials released 6 years of water samples showing no pollution. Cabot gas has not responded. Elsewhere, state officials in Western Pennsylvania are permitting fracking under a dam created lake drained after the Fall, 2011 flooding. Range Resources will pay an extra 2,2 million dollars to help rebuild the dam for the right to drill. Environmental groups are wary of gas drilling under fresh water lakes, especially those that are spring fed. In Ohio, tax payers are asking the Governor to support tax rates on natural gas drilling in line with those in Texas. This would cause an increase in Ohio tax rates currently charged. Pennsylvania, led by Governor Tom Corbett, still has no tax on natural gas drilling to date. Finally, West Virginia may be on the verge of landing construction of the Marcellus Shale by- product cracking plant and its estimated 12,000 direct and indirect jobs. No decision has yet to be made and Ohio and Pennsylvania are hoping that they are still in the running to land the large project. The 13 AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Trial Lawyers at DOUGHERTY LEVENTHAL PRICE–DLP–continue to monitor these and other gas drilling issues affecting clients seriously and catastrophically injured in AUTO accidents, gas truck accidents, big truck accidents, quarry accidents, explosion accidents, blasting accidents, product liability accidents and other accidents in NEPA ant throughout Pennsylvania.

Minor Injured At Work In Pennsylvania

Tom Cummings — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:42:52 +0000

In Pennsylvania, if a minor (an individual under 18 years of age) is employed in violation of Pennsylvania state laws relating to minors and is injured in the course and scope of employment, that minor is entitled to receive an additional 50% of the workers compensation wage loss benefit rate. The insurance carrier must pay compensatuion at the customary benefit rate (generally 2/3 of the pre-injury average wages). The employer in this scenario (not the insurance carrier) must pay the additional 50%.

Disclaimer: The above article is for instructive purposes only and each case is fact sensitive. Consultation with an attorney should be obtained instead of reliance upon the legal issues discussed in this column.