Mar 27, 2019 | Articles/E-Alerts
On April 1, 2019, Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 2005 titled ‘Unknown Defendant. Doe Designation’, will go into effect. The rule has been adopted to standardize the procedure in which to assert a cause of action against a Doe defendant. Previously,...
Feb 15, 2019 | Articles/E-Alerts
In Mitchell v. Milburn, No. 344 C.D. 2017 (Pa. Cmwlth. Dec.6, 2018), the Commonwealth Court upheld the sudden emergency doctrine as a defense when a defendant finds him or herself in a perilous situation which leaves little or no time to apprehend a situation and act...
Jan 28, 2019 | Articles/E-Alerts
On January 23, 2019, in Gallagher v. GEICO, 35 WAP 2017 (2019), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that that the household / family car exclusion violates the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law. This opinion will impact claims for stacked uninsured and...
Dec 20, 2018 | Articles/E-Alerts
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently issued a precedential decision in Encompass Insurance Company v. Stone Mansion Restaurant, Inc., No.: 17-1479, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 23576 (3d Cir. Aug. 22, 2018), authorizing a defense tactic known as “snap...
Nov 29, 2018 | Articles/E-Alerts
On October 17, 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued an Opinion, authored by Justice Baer, addressing the applicability of the discovery rule in Nicolaoui, et al. v. James J. Martin, M.D., et al., No. 44 MAP 2017. The issue was whether Plaintiff had satisfied...
