Jun 19, 2014 | Articles/E-Alerts
Currently, the Pennsylvania law of strict product liability is based on §402A of the Restatement (2d) of Torts. Under Pennsylvania law, a manufacture/supplier of a product is the guarantor of its safety. The manufacturer/supplier is liable for any harm that a defect...
May 17, 2014 | Articles/E-Alerts
After a seemingly long line of decisions beginning with Panichelli v. Liberty Mutual in 1996, Carroll v. Kephart in 1998, Ricks v. Nationwide in 2005, and Tannenbaum v. Nationwide in 2007 where the Collateral Source Rule seemed to win at every turn, on September 23,...
May 17, 2014 | Articles/E-Alerts
An Analysis of Brethren Mutual Insurance Company v. McKernan In Brethren Mutual Insurance Company v. McKernan, 961 A.2d 205 (Pa. Super 2008), the Superior Court addressed the issue of whether Pennsylvania public policy prohibits the use of insurance coverage to pay...
May 17, 2014 | Articles/E-Alerts
On January 14, 2009, in the matter of Celeste Williams vs. Allstate Insurance Company, E.D. Pa., Civil Action No. 08-3031, Senior U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter issued an Opinion/Order opining that the contractual provision in Allstate’s policy requiring an...
May 17, 2014 | Articles/E-Alerts
The Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code requires that [n]o person shall drive a vehicle at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions and having regard to the actual and potential hazards then existing, nor at a speed greater than will permit the...
