An arbitrator has awarded $95.6 million to a Ukrainian immigrant who was seriously injured in a 2013 Philadelphia building collapse. Mariya Plekan’s attorney, Andrew Stern, announced the division of the $227 million settlement on Thursday. Lawyers for 19 people killed …
As he drank coffee at his job site in the mornings, demolition subcontractor Sean Benschop often talked with Borbor Davis, who worked at the adjacent Salvation Army in downtown Philadelphia. The men, both immigrants, asked where the other was from. …
A cut-rate demolition contractor was found guilty of manslaughter Monday, more than two years after a towering wall fell on a busy Philadelphia, Pa., thrift store, killing six people. A jury convicted Griffin Campbell of six counts of involuntary manslaughter, …
A small-time contractor “valued money over human life” when he cut corners on a demolition project, causing a building collapse that killed six people inside a thrift store, prosecutors said Wednesday as his murder trial opened. Griffin Campbell’s lawyer painted …
A judge has denied a defense request for separate trials for two men charged in last year’s Philadelphia, Pa., building collapse that killed six people inside a thrift store. Fifty-year-old demolition contractor Griffin Campbell and 43-year-old subcontractor Sean Benschop are …
The family of a truck driver who died of heart disease weeks after he survived a deadly building collapse in Philadelphia, Pa., filed a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday linking his death to the catastrophe. Danny C. Johnson, 59, spent an …
A cut-rate building contractor will face murder charges for a botched demolition in downtown Philadelphia that killed six people inside an adjacent store, officials announced Monday. Prosecutors called Griffin Campbell “the center of culpability” for the June collapse, and said …
Federal officials have proposed nearly $400,000 in penalties for two companies involved in a botched building demolition that killed six people in Philadelphia. The fines announced Thursday by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration stem from the collapse of a …
The Salvation Army will become the latest defendant in litigation over a deadly Philadelphia building collapse, and a contractor has asked to delay the lawsuits amid a criminal grand jury probe. Six people died inside a Salvation Army thrift store …
An insurer says a contractor being sued by people injured in a Philadelphia building collapse that killed six others had an invalid insurance policy. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Berkley Assurance Co. of Iowa filed a lawsuit Monday in Philadelphia …