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By Max Mitchell | May 5, 2017
When it comes to the state law barring insurance companies from providing fire insurance when delinquent taxes are owed on the property, the term "named insured" does not narrowly apply only to the property owners who owe the taxes, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled in a precedential decision.
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By Max Mitchell | May 5, 2017
Just before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was set to hear arguments about what insurance carriers have to do to ensure someone with a single-vehicle policy has properly been given the chance to waive stacking when they buy two additional vehicles years later, the case that presented the issue settled. As a result, the Superior Court decision that was left unreviewed might continue to haunt the plaintiffs bar—at least until the high court gets another chance to look at the issue.
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By P.J. D'Annunzio | May 5, 2017
While ruling that a $5.1 million bad-faith verdict against an insurance company should not have been vacated, the Pennsylvania Superior Court also held that the judgment was unenforceable.
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By Michael Booth | May 5, 2017
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that an insurance carrier must provide coverage for a Newark firefighter who fell through a glass panel on a roof while responding to a fire.
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By Kristen Rasmussen | May 4, 2017
Some health care practice lawyers weren't ruffled by the passage of the Obamacare repeal bill in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, mainly because they give it little chance of making it through the Senate. But they offered some guidance on what lawyers should be thinking through with clients right now.
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By Lizzy McLellan | May 4, 2017
New Jersey-based Carroll, McNulty & Kull is merging with international insurance law firm Kennedys, leaders of both firms announced Thursday. The combination will form a nearly 1,000-lawyer firm that specializes in advising the insurance industry.
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By Greg Land | May 4, 2017
A legal malpractice insurer has been found not responsible for at least $7 million in legal expenses accrued defending a bankrupt law firm sued by an investment company whose manager was also a partner at the defendant firm.
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By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | May 3, 2017
Angela Hunt, who served on Dallas City Council from 2005 through 2013, will revive a zoning and land use practice at Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr.
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By C. Ryan Barber | May 2, 2017
The confirmation hearing of Makan Delrahim to lead the Justice Department's Antitrust Division—which was postponed from April 26—could be set as early as next week. The former Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck lawyer's ethics agreement, publicly disclosed this week, outlines a recusal roadmap.
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By Jenna Greene | May 1, 2017
Add this to the list of things judges don't like: When they make an erudite ruling from the bench dismissing a suit—and five seconds later are told by the plaintiffs' lawyers that there's a new witness, and could they please re-file the case? Yes, apples are juicy and delicious, but how many bites do you get?
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