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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...
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...
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...
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...
In Venturato v. State Farm, No. 4:18-CV 1243 (M.D. 2018), the court granted Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss, holding inter-policy stacking of underinsured motorist benefits coverage may be waived and the waiver language was valid. Plaintiff-husband and his wife...