Personal Injury Blog
Posted on Feb 3, 2012 By Rogan Law
No Evidence of Drilling Chemicals Found in Montrose Water When the floodgates of industry opened to tap the natural gas resources of the Pennsylvania landscape, many towns saw a massive influx of ...
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Posted on Nov 22, 2011 By Rogan Law
Negligence is found when a person owes a duty to others, breaches that duty, and the breach of that duty is the cause of injury or damage to others. According to Pennsylvania law, a person suing under ...
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Posted on Nov 17, 2011 By Rogan Law
Negligent drivers are one of the leading causes of traffic accidents and countless avoidable tragedies in our nation. Negligence is found when a person owes a duty to others, breaches that duty, and ...
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Posted on Nov 7, 2011 By Rogan Law
DUI, Drilling and Injury. When the floodgates of industry opened to tap the natural gas resources of the Pennsylvania landscape, many towns saw a massive influx of machinery, out-of-town workers, and ...
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Posted on Nov 2, 2011 By Rogan Law
State Police Investigate Interstate 80 Hit and Run Accident. Negligent drivers are one of the leading causes of traffic accidents and of countless avoidable tragedies in our nation. Negligence may be ...
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Posted on Oct 13, 2011 By Rogan Law
Negligent drivers are one of the leading causes of traffic accidents and countless avoidable tragedies in our nation. Negligence occurs when a person who owes a duty to others, breaches that duty and ...
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Posted on Apr 22, 2011 By
I was happy to read in today's Times-Tribune about an inventive new way to get middle school students in Abington Heights School District excited about an anti-bullying campaign. According to the ...
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Posted on Apr 22, 2011 By Patrick Rogan
According to this morning's Times-Tribune , Chesapeake Energy has suspended its well-completion operations in parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia until further notice due to an accident at a ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2011 By Patrick Rogan
Over the past few weeks, I, like most Americans, have been following with interest the story of the Tucson shooting. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords , who was shot during a townhall meeting outside a ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2011 By Patrick Rogan
More and more families in our area are being notified that land adjacent to their property will be used as a planned site for water withdrawal for potential gas drilling. Saturday's Times-Tribune ...
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Posted on Jan 12, 2011 By
Winter driving season is well underway in Lackawanna and Luzerne counties. Snow blanketed NEPA Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, causing travel to quickly become hazardous for ...
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Posted on Oct 30, 2010 By
The ongoing debate about natural gas drilling in NEPA continues to make headlines throughout our region. When creating natural gas wells, a process called fracturing is used. In this process, hundreds ...
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Posted on Oct 30, 2010 By
The anticipation of the birth of a baby is a time of excitement, joy, and wonder. Expectant parents dream about the moment they will first hold their child, the moment the baby learns to sit up, to ...
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Posted on Oct 30, 2010 By
This weekend is a time for candy, costumes, and scary ghost stories. Trick-or-treaters will be gearing up for a night of fun in the neighborhoods of Scranton and its surrounding towns. They will not ...
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Posted on Oct 19, 2010 By
The hospitals and emergency rooms of Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties are filled with people who have sustained serious injuries and will, undoubtedly, be stuck with a mountain of medical bills for ...
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Posted on Oct 11, 2010 By
If you are living in Northeastern Pennsylvania, chances are that you have heard a lot of talk lately about natural gas drilling in the Marchellus Shale. Proponents of both sides of this issue feel ...
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Posted on Sep 25, 2010 By
Traffic jams due to auto accidents are frustrating and stressful, but unfortunately, they are also very commonplace in NEPA. Today's Times-Tribune reports about an accident that tied up traffic Friday ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2010 By Patrick Rogan
Today's Times-Tribune reports that a tragic explosion in Indianola, Pennsylvania has killed two workers at a natural gas well. A welding project near the well is suspected to have triggered the deadly ...
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Posted on Jul 19, 2010 By Patrick Rogan
If you have been injured in Scranton, but don't know whether you have a solid case against the party that caused your injuries, then you should speak with a Scranton personal injury lawyer . An ...
Continue reading "Establishing Responsibility: Negligence, Strict Liability and Intentional Conduct" »
Posted on Jul 17, 2010 By Patrick Rogan
My niece and her family recently returned from a trip through Southern Appalachia, where they spent significant time in a mountain cabin in western North Carolina. Before going, they read many books ...
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Posted on Jul 17, 2010 By Patrick Rogan
I'm always reading the newspaper and commenting on it in these blogs, and oftentimes, the news is less than good. However, today's Times-Tribune cheered me up with an article reporting that Bloomberg ...
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Posted on Jul 13, 2010 By Patrick Rogan
The Pocono Record's reports of last Friday's police chase and fatal Poconos car crash demonstrate how tragically things can end when one person makes the reckless choice to put his life and the lives ...
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Posted on Jul 6, 2010 By Patrick Rogan
Today's Times-Tribune details the natural gas industry's current push to label gas gathering pipelines as utilities, which would subject the companies that own the lines to some regulation, but would ...
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Posted on Jun 29, 2010 By Patrick Rogan
Accidents caused by a negligent party unfortunately happen all the time. Walk into any local emergency room, and you are likely to meet someone whose injuries were sustained as a result of such an ...
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Posted on Jun 28, 2010 By Patrick Rogan
More news about Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling: An article in today's Times-Tribune emphasizes not the negative impact drilling has had and could have on NEPA's natural resources, but the ...
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