A Pittsburgh woman has been awarded a $2 million medical malpractice verdict by a jury for injuries she sustained when her surgeon improperly removed her gall bladder in May of 2013. The patient, Denise Westwood, alleged in her lawsuit that her surgeon, Dr. Charles N. Lebovitz, negligently injured her bile duct during the surgery on…

This week on Court Radio, Dean Weitzman of MyPhillyLawyer and Charles Mirarchi, a criminal defense attorney, speak about the guilty plea by former District Attorney Seth Williams, Bill Cosby’s recent sexual assault trial and take legal questions from callers.

A 26-year-old California motorcyclist is receiving a $250,000 settlement from the City of Palo Alto, Calif., after she was seriously injured in June 2015 when she crashed as she tried to avoid a fire truck that was stopped in the middle of a roadway. Alexis Ferreira was riding her motorcycle at 10:45 a.m. on June…

This week on Court Radio, Dean Weitzman of MyPhillyLawyer speaks with Shaurn Thomas, who was recently exonerated of his crimes after spending 24 years in prison and his attorney, James Figorski. Dean also takes legal questions from callers.

A Pennsylvania woman who was paralyzed after she fell from a ladder as she tried to rescue a cat from a tree in November 2009 has reached a $7.15 million settlement with the manufacturer and seller of the ladder. Penny Raza, who was 36 at the time of the fall, was hurt when the Saf-T-Master…

A $7.5 million settlement has been reached in connection with the crash of an SUV and a police car during Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey in October 2012 which left one woman dead and three others severely  injured. The crash, which happened about 1:20 a.m. on Oct. 30, 2012 at routes 112 and 347 in…