Recent News:
The Pennsylvania Superior Court recently addressed the multiple issues of personal jurisdiction, spoliation, remittitur and delay damages in the case of Hammons v. Ethicon, Inc., 2018 Pa. Super. 172 (Pa. Super. June 19, 2018 Ott, J., Stabile, J., Stevens, P.J.E.) (Op....
In the recent case of Smoyer v. Care One, LLC., No. 1417 WDA 2017 (July 25, 2018), the Superior Court held that contractual Arbitration Agreements are to be strictly construed and upheld a lower court’s denial of a Petition to Arbitrate filed by the Defendant. The...
In State Farm v. Dooner, ____A.3d ____, 2018 PA Super 146 (June 4, 2018), the Superior Court held that the trial court properly granted summary judgment in favor of State Farm, when Dooner, a passenger in her friend’s vehicle, grabbed the steering wheel and...
Last year, we reported on a Pennsylvania Superior Court decision in Safe Auto Insurance v. Oriental-Guillermo, 2017 Pa. Super. 297 (September 18, 2017) where the Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld an Unlisted Resident Driver Exclusion in an automobile policy issued by...
In the case of Barnard v. The Travelers Home and Marine Ins. Co., No. 17-00290 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 5, 2018 McHugh, J.) (Mem. Op.), the Eastern District Court addressed the issue of whether a carrier was required to obtain an updated Section 1738 rejection of stacking...