Ben Seal

March 05, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

An insurer is not entitled to an offset when an automobile-accident victim receives Social Security disability benefits for injuries sustained in the accident, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled.

By Ben Seal

3 minute read

March 04, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is seeking a full-bench recusal in her criminal trial, as well as the quashing of all charges, alleging she is the victim of a "selective and vindictive prosecution."

By Ben Seal and Lizzy McLellan

5 minute read

March 04, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

An undisclosed financial relationship between former Justice Seamus P. McCaffery and one of the three judges overseeing Justice J. Michael Eakin's ethics trial has raised the question of whether she should have recused herself from the case.

By Ben Seal

5 minute read

March 02, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A state representative from Allegheny County has been charged with corruption and related crimes following a joint investigation by the Office of Attorney General and Pennsylvania State Police.

By Ben Seal

4 minute read

March 02, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The five candidates to succeed Kathleen Kane as Pennsylvania's attorney general focused Tuesday on the need to redirect the office back toward the pursuit of the criminal and civil protection of the state's residents. At a Philadelphia Bar Association forum, the candidates denounced Kane's hiring of an out-of-state investigator to review offensive emails exchanged by government officials, insisting that the Office of Attorney General return its attention to serving the public.

By Ben Seal

4 minute read

March 01, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A jury should determine whether a plumbing supply business was negligent in its supervision of an employee who lured a child into his company car, a Lackawanna County judge has ruled.

By Ben Seal

5 minute read

February 26, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

As Attorney General Kathleen Kane's tumultuous term in office enters its final phase, the challengers vying to replace her next year are prioritizing a new approach to ethics in the early stages of the campaign.

By Ben Seal

5 minute read

February 26, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Court of Judicial Discipline's decision Thursday to deny all parties in Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin's disciplinary case the opportunity to present a proposed resolution left ethics attorneys wondering what led the court to change its mind on mediation.

By Ben Seal

4 minute read

February 26, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Insurers are not limited in the methods they can use to calculate reimbursement rates for medical companies that provide products to automobile accident victims under the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled.

By Ben Seal

4 minute read

February 26, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

For the second year in a row, rising pension and health care costs have pushed leaders of the Pennsylvania judiciary to request an additional $30 million in the annual budget, leaving an $8 million shortfall between the request and Gov. Tom Wolf's proposed budget.

By Ben Seal

4 minute read