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  • Hamm v. Perano

    Publication Date: 2022-08-15
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Lindhart
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0809

    Court denied defendants' motion in limine seeking to exclude the expert testimony of plaintiff's medical doctor who was expected to testify as to the possibility that plaintiff would need medical care in the future. Although defendants argued that the "possibility" of medical care in the future was not admissible evidence, the court agreed with plaintiff that under Rule 223 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure, the testimony was relevant to her claim for future noneconomic pain and suffering damages.

  • Wise v. Wise

    Publication Date: 2022-08-08
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Lindhart
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0840

    Court denied a preliminary objection and request to dismiss a protection order where the defendant claimed the court lacked personal jurisdiction over him due to his residence in South Carolina. Although plaintiff resided with defendant in South Carolina for a majority of their marriage, they returned to Pennsylvania frequently, and even temporarily moved back at some point. The court found that under Pennsylvania's long-arm statute, defendant had sufficient minimum contacts within the state such that the court had personal jurisdicti

  • Willburn v. Narcotics Anonymous World Serv., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-25
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Legal Services | Non-Profit
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Lindhart
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0757

    Court granted request to strike a previously stipulated discontinuance after learning that one of the defendant party's counsel erroneously signed the stipulation due to a clerical mistake.

  • Thomas v. Little League Baseball Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-04
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Lindhart
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0667

    Court granted defendant's demurrer in a matter arising from plaintiff's dispute with his local little league charter. Although plaintiff argued defendant, Little League Baseball Inc., served as an agent for the charter, the court rejected these claims noting that the charter controlled their own day to day operations and had its own inherent authority to conduct themselves separate from that of defendant.

  • In re: Crooks Estate

    Publication Date: 2022-06-27
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Lindhart
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0664

    After reviewing ambiguous language in a testator's will that directed trust shares be distributed "in equal shares" to his two daughters and then upon their death, the remaining portions to their descendants, the probate court ordered trust distributions be distributed per stirpes in accordance with the "American Rule." The court reasoned that it could not infer that testator intended the shares to be distributed per capita because the language in the will did not specifically address "lineal descendants" of his two daughters nor did