Ben Seal

August 11, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Lancaster County jury has handed up an $8.5 million verdict in a medical ­malpractice case for an 8-year-old boy who developed severe neurological ­defects after an incident at a pediatric care facility.

By Ben Seal

12 minute read

August 11, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The products liability defense bar and a group of national manufacturers, concerned about what they view as a plaintiff-friendly update to the suggested standard jury instructions, are seeking reconsideration by the subcommittee that wrote them.

By Ben Seal

22 minute read

August 09, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Revenge and retaliation were at the root of Attorney General Kathleen Kane's alleged leak of grand jury information and her ensuing cover-up, prosecutors argued to the jury Tuesday as her criminal trial began.

By Ben Seal

10 minute read

August 08, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Lancaster County jury has handed up an $8.5 million verdict in a medical malpractice case for an 8-year-old boy who developed severe neurological defects after an incident at a pediatric care facility.

By Ben Seal

9 minute read

August 05, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The group of plaintiffs seeking to change the "deceptive" language of a ballot question that could raise Pennsylvania's mandatory judicial retirement age from 70 to 75 have told the state Supreme Court their complaint should not be dismissed, arguing that it was filed at the first appropriate moment.

By Ben Seal

7 minute read

August 05, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Law enforcement cannot seize items that could be used for drug-related purposes if they could also serve a legitimate purpose, the Commonwealth Court has ruled, comparing glass pipes and scales to sandwich bags as items that can serve multiple functions.

By Ben Seal

7 minute read

August 05, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has denied Attorney General Kathleen Kane's last-minute attempt to have the criminal charges against her dismissed, on the last business day before her trial is set to begin.

By Lizzy McLellan and Ben Seal

11 minute read

August 05, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A case that could go a long way toward settling some of the many open issues in Pennsylvania products liability law has received an injection of intrigue on the eve of appellate argument from a trial court's decision on remand in Tincher v. Omega Flex, the landmark 2014 case that left much uncertainty in the field.

By Ben Seal

16 minute read

August 03, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Changing the wording of the ballot question on the mandatory judicial retirement age in Pennsylvania would create a logistical nightmare that would only further the "cycle of uncertainty" that has plagued the constitutional amendment in recent months, the secretary of state argued Wednesday in an answer and new matter filed with the state Supreme Court.

By Ben Seal

7 minute read

August 03, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit challenging the civil-forfeiture practices of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office are seeking to add four top officials of the First Judicial District as defendants.

By Ben Seal

8 minute read