By ALM Staff | August 18, 2022
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | August 17, 2022
Stockdale is one of a few putative class actions alleging insurers have improperly used household exclusions to bar stacked uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage since as far back as 1990.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | August 5, 2022
The employer became suspicious that Pitt had improperly diverted his fees to the claimant in order to avoid having the money used to pay down the lien, Fizzano Cannon said. The employer then asked the workers' compensation judge to adjudicate the matter, seeking to recover the money.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | August 1, 2022
"Our practice has evolved. A lot more of our work is based out of Harrisburg and the Philadelphia area," Brier said. "It's just organic growth and natural for us to want to be in the Philadelphia area."
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By James C. Haggerty, Jeffrey Stanton and Dennis Coyne | July 27, 2022
Exclusions in auto policies in Pennsylvania have recently undergone increased scrutiny by the Courts. At the forefront of this re-evaluation is the household exclusion. That exclusion bars recovery of uninsured (UM) and underinsured (UIM) motorist benefits where the claimant sustained injury while operating a household vehicle insured on other policy, typically the personal auto/motorcycle situation.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Timothy P. Law | July 27, 2022
This article discusses the broad scope of Coverage B, particularly for violations of intangible rights and intentional torts, which many businesses (and their attorneys) incorrectly assume are uncovered.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Kenneth E. Sharperson and Bradley A. (Brad) Baldwin | July 27, 2022
This article briefly discusses these policy conditions, which may not be well known to insureds, so that a coverage assessment is limited to the merits of a claim and not a failure to satisfy policy conditions.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Daniel J. Twilla and Kathleen P. Dapper | July 26, 2022
Pennsylvania bad-faith lawyers are all too familiar with the tortured history and anticlimactic outcome of the Berg v. Nationwide case. In part because of the issues before the court and in part because the Pennsylvania Supreme Court did not reach a majority disposition, Pennsylvania's highest court did not issue a binding, precedential decision in Berg—leaving for another day the question of an insurance company's duties when repairing a vehicle damaged in an accident.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Mark W. Tanner and Peter M. Newman | July 26, 2022
Third-party bad faith claims typically arise from a common fact pattern: an insured defendant, hit with an excess verdict because his insurer refused to make a reasonable settlement offer, assigns to the plaintiff the right to bring a bad faith claim against the insurer.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Michael Kassak and Adam Berardi | July 25, 2022
Beyond the devastating physical toll, the opioid epidemic has had severe economic consequences on the nation as well. A bipartisan congressional report issued earlier this year found that the opioid epidemic costs the United States roughly $1 trillion a year.
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