Ben Seal

February 05, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has denied state Attorney General Kathleen Kane's petition for ­reinstatement of her law license.

By Lizzy McLellan and Ben Seal

5 minute read

February 05, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille had spent years working over the issue with his colleagues, trying to form a consensus. For nearly two decades, a question had been kicked around the state Supreme Court: Would Pennsylvania products liability law continue to follow the Restatement (Second) of Torts or would it update its standing and adopt the Third Restatement, published in 1998?

By Ben Seal

6 minute read

February 03, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Court of Judicial Discipline has suspended without pay two Philadelphia Municipal Court judges for their alleged roles in fixing cases for campaign donors of another judge.

By Ben Seal

3 minute read

February 02, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has granted allocatur in a pair of cases to answer the question of whether a jury should decide if a product is “unreasonably dangerous.” The cases are the first the court has agreed to hear that deal with its 2014 ruling in Tincher v. Omega Flex, which reshaped products liability law in the state, as well as the first it has agreed to hear since adding three new justices this year.

By Ben Seal

5 minute read

February 01, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

An insurance company does not have to cover H.J. Heinz Co. for up to $25 million in losses tied to the accidental contamination of baby food because Heinz made material misrepresentations of fact in its insurance application, a federal judge has ruled.

By Ben Seal

4 minute read

January 30, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Shortly after hearing the news, David Laigaie was still waiting to speak to his client, an inmate serving a life sentence without parole for a crime committed as a juvenile.

By Ben Seal

7 minute read

January 30, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A hospital's failure to present a patient's discharge instructions to her for review before the document was introduced at cross-examination could have prejudiced the plaintiff's medical malpractice suit, the Superior Court has ruled in reversing a defense verdict.

By Ben Seal

5 minute read

January 30, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The city of Philadelphia cannot modify the operations of Girard College to suspend its residential and high school programs, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.

By Ben Seal

5 minute read

January 30, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

After a three-year hiatus, former Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly has been named as the new court administrator for Allegheny County.

By Ben Seal

4 minute read

January 30, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The statute of limitations for commencing a criminal prosecution does not apply to juvenile proceedings, a Carbon County judge has ruled in what he said was the first opinion on the issue in 40 years.

By Ben Seal

4 minute read