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Zack Needles is Global Managing Editor, Regional Brands at ALM. He is also the Managing Editor of The Legal Intelligencer, Pennsylvania Law Weekly, Delaware Business Court Insider and Delaware Law Weekly. Contact him at 215-557-2373 or [email protected]. On Twitter: @ZackNeedlesTLI.
April 16, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
Providing additional guidance on what constitutes a "judicial admission" that may not be contradicted by a plaintiff on the witness stand, the Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld an Allegheny County jury's approximately $2.2 million award to a man injured when a tractor rolled over him.
By Zack Needles
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April 14, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has used its King's Bench power to reject an emergency application for extraordinary relief seeking to invalidate Gov. Tom Wolf's executive order that shut down the physical operations of all "non-life-sustaining" business in response to the COVID-19 epidemic.
By Zack Needles
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April 10, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
Allstate Fire & Casualty Insurance will have to wait to appeal a federal judge's ruling interpreting the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's 2019 decision in 'Gallagher v. Geico' as invalidating the "household vehicle exclusion," commonly used in motor vehicle policies. U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said the case must proceed to the class certification phase before an appeal can be taken.
By Zack Needles
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April 2, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to review a Superior Court ruling that upheld an order of probation for a student found to have made terroristic threats, including stating a desire to "beat the record" for the number of deaths in a school shooting.
By Zack Needles
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April 2, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
In a case of first impression, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that Chapter 3 of the Rules of Criminal Procedure, which governs the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program for DUI defendants, does not apply to the state's other diversionary programs and problem-solving courts.
By Zack Needles
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April 1, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
The high court's decision reversed a ruling by the Commonwealth Court that found the policy to be bargainable because the requirements it imposed "'directly relate to the terms and conditions of employment.'"
By Zack Needles
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March 26, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
The plaintiff had alleged that a Facebook post by a UPMC Susquehanna nurse, which read, "Getting older is such an adventure. Like is this chest pain indigestion or a heart attack? Can't wait to see if I'm alive tomorrow," was an unlawful publication of the plaintiff's personal and private health information.
By Zack Needles
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March 26, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, citing its landmark decision in 'Gallagher v. Geico,' had previously vacated and remanded a Superior Court ruling affirming the denial of underinsured motorist coverage for a plaintiff who was injured when his motorcycle collided with a car. But now the justices have refused to hear a second appeal after the Superior Court found that 'Gallagher' had no bearing on the case.
By Zack Needles
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March 26, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has held that the Mental Health Procedures Act and the psychotherapist-patient privilege did not prevent the operators of a mental health facility from answering a request for admissions regarding their knowledge of a patient's sex offender status.
By Zack Needles
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March 19, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
"We find delay damages on a UIM claim submitted to a jury for a verdict are recoverable," Monroe County Court of Common Pleas Judge David Williamson wrote in a March 4 opinion. "To do otherwise, would give insurance companies no incentive to settle UIM claims other than for less than the policy limits, even where, as here, there was potential for a verdict well in excess of policy limits."
By Zack Needles
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