The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is set to consider whether the catchall provision of the Pennsylvania Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law requires plaintiffs to prove negligent or fraudulent misrepresentation.

Counsel for the plaintiffs said the allocatur grant gives the justices an opportunity to clear up a question that courts and litigants have struggled with for decades: What is the definition of “deceptive conduct” in the 1996 amendment to the UTPCPL?