Blog: Personal Injury

Father's Day After a Wrongful Death: How Harden Crichton, P.C. Helps Surviving Children and Spouses Pursue Justice Under Pennsylvania's Wrongful Death and Survival Acts
Jun 15, 2026
Harden Crichton, P.C. | Philadelphia Wrongful Death Attorney Father's Day is supposed to be a celebration, but for families who lost a father, husband, or provider to someone else's negligence, this Sunday carries a weight that no greeting card can address. In Pennsylvania, wrongful death is a legal concept that recognizes what surviving families already know: losing someone due to another party's carelessness does not just take a life. It takes a future, an...
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Vision Zero at Ten Years: Why Are Philadelphia Pedestrians Still Dying at Disproportionate Rates in 2026?
May 20, 2026
By Harden Crichton, P.C. | Philadelphia Pedestrian Accident Attorneys Losing a family member to a pedestrian crash, or surviving one yourself, is a kind of grief that does not fade on a schedule. The phone call comes, the world stops, and you are forced to think about hospitals, police reports, and insurance adjusters while you are still trying to understand what happened. Many Philadelphia families have been pulled into that exact moment in 2026...
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One Dead, Two Still Missing After Grays Ferry Parking Garage Collapse. Here's What Families Need to Know.
Apr 10, 2026
By Harden Crichton, P.C. | Construction Accidents | Philadelphia, PA Just after 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, a parking garage collapsed in the Grays Ferry section of South Philadelphia. The under construction seven-story parking garage partially gave way, floor by floor, in what Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker described as a "progressive collapse of connected sections across all seven levels." Three workers were rescued when emergency service crews arrived. One worker was pronounced dead...
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Personal Injury Lawsuits: When Accountability Begins After The Worst Day Of Someone's Life
Mar 19, 2026
Nobody wakes up expecting it to be that day. Not on the drive up I-95 through Chester. Not crossing the intersection on Baltimore Avenue in Yeadon. Not stepping off the curb outside a shop in Upper Darby. Not walking to the car after a late shift. But for thousands of families across Philadelphia, Delaware County, and Montgomery County every single year, that day comes anyway without warning, without mercy, and without a clear road map...
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Wrongful Death Lawsuits: When Negligence Turns A Preventable Tragedy Into A Legal Reckoning
Feb 19, 2026
By Harden Crichton, P.C. | Wrongful Death | Philadelphia, PA There is a specific kind of grief that comes with knowing it did not have to happen. Not the grief of illness. Not the grief of age. The grief of a phone call that starts with the words there has been an accident, and ends with the understanding that someone's carelessness, someone's recklessness, someone's failure to do what they were supposed to do took a...
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