Ben Present

November 10, 2011 | Daily Report Online

By Ben Present

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April 23, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Pennsylvania man injured in a car accident in North Carolina may not submit evidence of his medical bills and wage losses during the trial of a UIM claim he filed against his insurer, a federal judge has ruled.

By Ben Present

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July 24, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has split evenly for the first time since Justice Joan Orie Melvin was suspended in the wake of criminal charges.

By Ben Present

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September 04, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board more than tripled the number of "letters of caution" it sent to members of the state judiciary in 2011, according to the board's annual report.The 35 letters were intended to serve as a "wake-up call," the report said, to judges whose alleged misconduct amounts to no more than an "aberration or an oversight or other minor error in judicial comportment."

By Ben Present

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August 14, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a freight railroad should bear a portion of the cost to remove a bridge that hovers over a highway crossing it uses but does not own.

By Ben Present

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November 29, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Harrisburg law firm that served as bond counsel for a midstate school district will remain a third-party defendant in the school district's legal dispute with its bank, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled, while dismissing the district's solicitor from the case.

By Ben Present

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September 11, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has declined to pull its grant of allocatur in a class action suit over whether health care providers can base their charges for providing hard copies of medical records on the maximum charges spelled out under state law, despite legislative changes from the Pennsylvania General Assembly that appeared to remove the core of the class' claim.

By Ben Present

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June 07, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge has dismissed the antitrust lawsuit filed by Governor Tom Corbett and the state of Pennsylvania against the NCAA challenging the heavy sanctions the college sports governing body imposed on Penn State's football program in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal.

By Ben Present

8 minute read

January 29, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Union County judge has entered a $4 million verdict in favor of a Pennsylvania man who was blinded after being shot in the face by a man who never should have been hunting in the first place.

By Ben Present

4 minute read

August 14, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court, deadlocking for the second time in less than a month, has let stand a ruling that Pennsylvania insurance companies may recoup tax credits against fixed-premium annuity assessments they've paid to the Pennsylvania Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association.

By Ben Present

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