After weighing the evidence presented at the 2010 trial, including testimony suggesting that The Philadelphia Nursing Home, owned at the time by Episcopal Long Term Care, beefed up its staffing in time for state inspections and then let it dwindle back to inadequacy, President Judge Correale F. Stevens said a jury should have been permitted to decide if the nursing home's conduct rose to the level of reckless disregard for the patient's rights. The facility denied ever doing so.

Super Lawyers magazine has named two Wilkes & McHugh, P.A. attorneys to its 2011 Pennsylvania Rising Stars list. This makes the second year in a row that William P. Murray III, managing attorney for the Pennsylvania offices, and Peter Giglione in the Pittsburgh office, were selected for the prestigious list.

MCGEHEE - A local woman suffered years of neglect in a McGehee nursing home, and now her niece has filed a lawsuit against the former owners and operators, alleging their lack of care hastened her aunt's death.

PHOENIX, Ariz./April 6, 2011/ - A 54-year-old woman died from a drug overdose in a nursing home. Now, her daughter is suing the facility for wrongful death and negligence.

Pamela Sheffield was a mother of 10 children, two of them under the age of 18. Sheffield suffered a stroke in 2007 and required skilled care and rehabilitation. Her daughter, Lisa Brissette, tried to care for her at home, but ultimately had to trust Maravilla Care Center with that responsibility.

The family of one of three people who died the same day at a Forest Hills nursing home will have his body exhumed next week to determine, to their satisfaction, what killed him.

MADISONVILLE, Ky. - A Hopkins County jury awarded $42.75 million to the family of a man who was abused, neglected and ultimately died in a Madisonville nursing home.

LITTLE ROCK - A Pulaski County jury has awarded more than $10 million to the family of a nursing home abuse and neglect victim.

Wilkes & McHugh, P.A., a law firm with offices from coast to coast, is representing clients affected by the recent recall of a Johnson & Johnson hip replacement implant. Johnson & Johnson announced last month the recall of two kinds of hip replacement implants - one for traditional replacements, and one for resurfacing procedures.

LAKELAND | The 2nd District Court of Appeal has upheld a $65 million verdict for a Wauchula woman injured in a 2007 traffic crash. The verdict is considered to be one of the largest by a Polk County jury. Isaac Ruiz-Carus, a Tampa lawyer who represented Lymon in the appeal, said Lymon's family is pleased with the appellate court's decision.

Super Lawyers magazine has named two Wilkes & McHugh, P.A. attorneys to its Rising Stars list for Pennsylvania. William P. Murray III, managing attorney for the Pennsylvania offices, and Peter Giglione in the Pittsburgh office, were selected for the prestigious list.

A Grethel man has filed lawsuits against a Prestonsburg rehabilitation center and a Pikeville hospital for the neglect and wrongful death of his wife.

LOUISVILLE, Ky/May 7, 2010/ - A Louisville woman has filed a lawsuit against two area nursing homes on behalf of her mother, who suffered abuse and neglect before her untimely death.

TAMPA, Fla., April 23, 2010/PRESS RELEASE SITE/ - Los Angeles law firms Girardi & Keese, and Wilkes & McHugh, P.A. have filed a class action lawsuit against several companies, including subsidiaries of Sony, Samsung, Hitachi and Toshiba, for price fixing and bid rigging in the sale and distribution of optical disk drives or ODDs.

Though she was 98 years old, the death of longtime Tucsonan Irma Smith was hastened due to neglect by staff members at Devon Gables nursing home, attorney Melanie Bossie told a Pima County jury Wednesday.

IMG Academies, the Bradenton training facility that draws students from all over the world who aspire to be pro athletes, on Thursday was found to be negligent along with two medical professionals in the death of a 16-year-old student.

DEQUEEN, Ark. - A Court in Sevier County decided today (April 17, 2009) that a family deserved $7 million for the neglect and wrongful death of its patriarch. John W. Minor, an 87-year-old DeQueen man, died after officials at a local nursing home neglected him to the point where his body was covered with 35 bedsores. The sores, many in advanced stages and infected, made it impossible to embalm his body when Minor passed away on May 2, 2004.

A Polk County jury awarded a 21-year-old woman $65 million in damages Wednesday in a personal injury lawsuit against a trucking company. On Aug. 21, 2007, Kendra Lymon was a normal 19-year-old woman whose life was shattered when an 18-wheeler, owned by Bynum Transport Inc., T-boned her little Dodge Neon at the intersection of State Road 17 and State Road 64

The surviving family of Cheathum Myers could end up getting nearly $30 million in punitive damages which were stripped away by the trial judge after jurors found NHC partially liable for the death of an 88-year old man.

A Westmoreland County jury started hearing arguments Tuesday in a wrongful death lawsuit in which the family of a 90-year-old Acme woman claims the nursing home where she lived was negligent in her care and caused her death.

The Tennessee Court of Appeals has sustained most of a $4.1 million damage award against Murfreesboro-based nursing home operator National Healthcare Corp., while denying the company's bid to relieve it of any punitive damages.

The father of an Interstate 540 crash victim filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Crawford County Circuit Court, siting an Arkansas trucking company for his death.

The parents of a Fayette County man who died while trying to save his girlfriend from a condominium fire a year ago have filed a lawsuit alleging negligence.

The family of a Belle Vernon man who died last year in a fire at a Seven Springs Mountain Resort condominium filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the condo association, chimney cleaning company, chimney manufacturer

The parents of a 22-year old who died in a condo fire near Seven Springs Mountain have filed a lawsuit against several different parties.