Ben Seal is managing editor of The American Lawyer. He joined the magazine in February 2018, and previously spent five years working for The Legal Intelligencer, editing the paper's magazines and supplements and reporting on Pennsylvania's state courts, legislature and Attorney General's Office. Contact him at [email protected] or @BSealTAL.
August 06, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal
InadmissibleBy Ben Seal, Miriam Rozen and Marisa Kendall
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August 05, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal
InadmissibleMoving On Up—Lyndhurst-based Scarinci Hollenbeck has moved its New York City office right to the very heart of it, Times Square, to share space…
By Ben Seal, Miriam Rozen and Marisa Kendall
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August 05, 2015 | Delaware Law Weekly
Court: Accident While Crossing Road For School Bus Merits PIP BenefitsA student injured while crossing the road to board a school bus is entitled to personal-injury protection benefits from the automobile policy insuring the bus, the Kent County Superior Court has ruled in a case of first impression.
By Ben Seal
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August 04, 2015 | Delaware Law Weekly
Court: Accident While Crossing Road For School Bus Merits PIP BenefitsA student injured while crossing the road to board a school bus is entitled to personal-injury protection benefits from the automobile policy insuring the bus, the Kent County Superior Court has ruled in a case of first impression.
By Ben Seal
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July 29, 2015 | Delaware Law Weekly
Workers' Compensation Dismissal Bars Negligence LawsuitA man who pursued workers' compensation benefits with the Industrial Accident Board is barred by the election of remedies doctrine from pursuing a negligence suit against his employer, despite the IAB rejecting his efforts, the New Castle County Superior Court has ruled.
By Ben Seal
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July 28, 2015 | Delaware Law Weekly
Workers' Compensation Dismissal Bars Negligence LawsuitA man who pursued workers' compensation benefits with the Industrial Accident Board is barred by the election of remedies doctrine from pursuing a negligence suit against his employer, despite the IAB rejecting his efforts, the New Castle County Superior Court has ruled.
By Ben Seal
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July 28, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Post-Injury Agreement Doesn't Limit Benefits EligibilityA roof painter who signed an independent subcontractor agreement after being injured at the job site is still eligible for workers' compensation benefits because he was an employee at the time of his injury, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
By Ben Seal
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July 27, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Post-Injury Agreement Doesn't Limit Benefits EligibilityA roof painter who signed an independent subcontractor agreement after being injured at the job site is still eligible for workers' compensation benefits because he was an employee at the time of his injury, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
By Ben Seal
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July 24, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Bar Code on Envelope Violates Debt-Collection ActFollowing a Third Circuit ruling last year finding a debtor's account number on the outside of an envelope violates the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled embedding that number in a bar code is equally problematic given the advent of smartphone bar-code readers.
By Ben Seal
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July 23, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Bar Code on Envelope Violates Debt-Collection ActFollowing a Third Circuit ruling last year finding a debtor's account number on the outside of an envelope violates the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled embedding that number in a bar code is equally problematic given the advent of smartphone bar-code readers.
By Ben Seal
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