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On September 4, 2015, in Dunlap v. Ridley Park Swim Club, et al., No. 3199 EDA 2014, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania addressed the issue of when a settling defendant should be on the Verdict Slip at trial. Maryann C. Dunlap (“Dunlap”) was swimming at Ridley Park’s...
Judge Manion of the Middle District of Pennsylvania recently upheld the stacking rejection under a Progressive motorcycle policy after the addition of a newly acquired vehicle when the insured had waived stacking at the policy’s inception. In Mitchell v. Progressive...
In a case of first impression, Judge Bernstein of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County recently ruled in Nationwide Insurance v. Geico Insurance, that automobile insurance extends to a woman’s son’s girlfriend despite the fact that the woman had not given...
Predicting that Pennsylvania courts may allow for negligence claims against individual insurance adjusters, U.S District Judge Thomas N. O’Neill recently held that Plaintiffs did not fraudulently bring suit against individual adjusters in a bad-faith case in order to...
A United States District Court recently reiterated Pennsylvania’s “contemporaneous observance” requirement as necessary to establish a claim for negligent infliction of emotional distress in Rapchak v. Freightliner Custom Chassis, et al, U.S.D.C. WDPA 2:13-CV-1307. ...