A truck driver who was seriously injured when a large piece from an overhead warehouse door struck him in the head while he waited for the door to be opened has reached a $2.9 million damage settlement in the case. The truck driver, Carlos Ramos, a produce delivery truck driver working for J.L. Cruz Transportation,…

As the powerful Storm Nemo, which is being called a blizzard as it approaches New England, heads through Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley this weekend, it’s not expected to bring us the same high winds and heavy snows that are forecast for New York City, Boston and further north. But whatever snow, ice, slush and…

Every day in America, about two construction workers are killed in their workplaces as they build structures, operate powerful and dangerous equipment and perform many other jobs in their work sites. It happens all the time. On Jan. 28, one worker was killed in Frisco, Texas, when a trench collapsed while he was working in…

A 12-year-old Ohio girl was killed tragically on Jan. 21 as she stood on a highway median strip following an 87-vehicle pileup caused by icy roads and poor visibility due to a snow squall that enveloped an area of westbound Interstate 275 in Cincinnati, Ohio. “Hamilton County sheriff’s deputies said the trouble started when vehicles…

Snow, sleet, ice, slippery roads, blinding snowfall, hazardous conditions all are possible on area roads now that it’s January and the winter driving season is upon us here in eastern Pennsylvania. Yes, old man winter is back. And with that, we here at MyPhillyLawyer prepared this handy guide to remind all of us about the…

The recent mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., both rattled the senses of America in 2012. Twenty-six people – 20 first-graders and six teachers and school officials in Newtown, were murdered in the elementary school on Dec. 14 when a troubled 20-year-old man…