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A multidisciplinary Saxton & Stump team — Matt Chabal, Jason Confair, and Steve Matzura, with strategic support from the Hon. Christopher C. Conner (Ret.) — successfully defended two injunction attempts aimed at stopping a significant construction project....

Kurt Fernsler, a shareholder in our Pittsburgh office and a member of the Construction, Construction Litigation, and Commercial Litigation groups, secured a significant bench trial verdict in F.J. Busse Company,...

Austin v. Charleston Day School, U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina A federal judge has granted summary judgment in favor of Charleston Day School, dismissing a lawsuit...

Saxton & Stump shareholder Mark Cedrone secured a significant appellate victory in United States v. Martinez, a precedential decision issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit....

We received a defense verdict via binding arbitration in a case filed against a vascular surgeon involving the alleged negligent placement of a stent in a female patient’s stenosed right...

We obtained a defense verdict for a hospital and neurologist, who was the director of the hospital’s stroke program, where plaintiffs alleged that the neurologist failed to appropriately diagnose and...

This professional liability matter arose out of a plaintiff’s allegations that a family doctor failed to disclose his findings on rectal examination to a general surgeon whom he referred the...

Saxton & Stump secured a defense verdict on behalf of a surgeon who performed an abdominal procedure to remove a non-functioning peritoneal dialysis catheter (PDC) and place new one.  The...

After a 5-day jury trial, we successfully defended two emergency medicine physicians accused of negligence for an alleged delay in diagnosis of an occlusion of the popliteal artery which subsequently...