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Insurance Under Fire and Bad Faith
Bid rigging, deceptive broker practices, bilking their insured � all of it spells bad news for insurance. Due in part to the efforts of Attorneys General Charlie Crist in Florida and Elliot Spitzer in New York, a number of states � including Pennsylvania and New Jersey � have the insurance industry under increased scrutiny.Lawyers Open Their Hearts and Wallets To the Victims of Devastating Tsunami
Philadelphia law firms have banded together to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for the worldwide relief effort for victims of the devastating tsunami that killed more than 150,000 people.Pa. High Court Extends Job Protection for Supervisory Employees
Don't use middlemen to do your dirty work, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court seems to be telling employers. If state courts have already held that it's unlawful to fire an employee for seeking workers' compensation benefits, employers shouldn't now be permitted to fire supervisory employees who refuse to tell their subordinates not to seek workers' compensation benefits, the justices unanimously ruled.Lawyer Claims Pa. Appellate Courts Apply Conflicting Review Standards to Summary Judgments
In the past 10 years, Pennsylvania's appellate judges have begun to apply two apparently conflicting standards when reviewing trial courts' summary judgment awards, an asbestos plaintiffs lawyer told justices of the state Supreme Court Tuesday. Attorney Richard Myers told the justices that a relatively recent line of cases suggests an abuse of discretion standard, but an older doctrine required a de novo review standard. Several justices expressed concern that the policy issue wasn't preserved for appeal.Defendants Must Pay Fees Of ,700 After Removal Fails
U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick took the rare step of ordering a group of defendants in an auto accident case to pay the plaintiffs` legal fees of ,700 after finding that they had no legal basis for removing the case to federal court - and that they waited too long.Top 20 Personal Injury Awards of the Year
The Law Journal's annual review of personal injury cases resulting in the largest recoveriesChildren in Auto Accidents With Parents Settle for $6 Million
Two Pennsylvania settlements totaling more than $6 million were struck this week in lawsuits brought by children who suffered brain injuries in car accidents in which a parent was driving. In one, a suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act, attorneys secured a $2 million settlement for Steffane Wharton, whose mother is an IRS agent and was driving a rented car on IRS business at the time of the accident.TRENDING STORIES
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