Layser & Freiwald

Partners Derek Layser and Aaron Freiwald were selected as Pennsylvania Super Lawyers. This is the third year in a row Derek has been selected for this distinction. The Super Lawyers designation is meant to identify the top five percent of lawyers in the state after a ballot survey of peers and a selection process conducted [...]

by Ben Finley, phillyBurbs.com A Bristol Township man is suing two emergency workers and their township rescue squad for negligence, claiming in a civil suit that the men allegedly dropped him on his head several times while carrying him on a stretcher. Edward Hunt, a 47-year-old former handyman and construction worker who lives on Spruce [...]

by Rich Roberts, American Police Beat Law enforcement and corrections officers are well aware of the obvious dangers involved in arresting, transporting, and incarcerating the bad guys. Sometimes we have to use force in restraining a subject. While the risk of injury is always present, there is a more insidious risk -infection from highly communicable [...]

Please click here to read article published in The New Jersey FOP News, Spring 2007.

WOODBURY – A Salem County man, currently serving time in a state correctional facility, claims in a lawsuit filed here that he was infected with a staph infection while locked up at the Gloucester County Jail in October 2004. Brian Green, 25, alleges in his civil suit that the county failed to properly inform its [...]

An investigation has been launched into how a chemical which causes irritation to eyes, nose and skin leaked out of a tank at Grangemouth port. A major incident was declared on Wednesday when the vapour caused a large plume above the Forth. The chemical, which was inside a storage tank on a quayside within the [...]

By Nikki Wittner OSS POINT — With the reverse osmosis plant slated to go online in September of 2007, the Board of Aldermen is weighing its options on day-to-day operations. “We have to decide whether to contract out or keep our service in-house on the new reverse osmosis plant,” said Aneice R. Liddell, alderman-at-large and [...]

Partners Derek Layser and Aaron Freiwald were selected as Pennsylvania Super Lawyers. This is the third year in a row Derek has been selected for this distinction. The Super Lawyers designation is meant to identify the top five percent of lawyers in the state after a ballot survey of peers and a selection process conducted [...]

We want to alert you to an important issue coming up this week in the US Senate. Each year, over a hundred thousand people are killed by preventable medical errors, due to negligence or wrongdoing. Many more are seriously or permanently injured, disfigured or disabled. Congress has done little to address this serious problem. Instead, the [...]

News Release Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts Harrisburg, April 25, 2006 – Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ralph J. cappy today announced the release of state court system data on medical malpractice case filings and verdicts for 2005 that show a sustained decline in the number of med mal lawsuits filed statewide. The AOPC began the [...]