Daniel E Cummins

October 27, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

It has now been a little over three years since the state Supreme Court handed down its monumental decision in the case of Insurance Federation of Pennsylvania v. Commonwealth, Department of Insurance (Koken), 889 A.

By Daniel E. Cummins

14 minute read

October 26, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

There's a new discovery battlefield developing across the Pennsylvania legal landscape and the defense has taken the first hill.

By Daniel E. Cummins

9 minute read

October 22, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

Lawyer jokes are an amusing, sometimes annoying, part of the practice. You?ve heard one, you?ve heard them all. With the negative sting of many of the lawyer jokes, it is easy to wince and give a wan smile while others laugh out loud with forced glee at t

By Daniel E. Cummins

8 minute read

May 24, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Like a Weather Channel weatherman leaning into driving rain and gale force winds while trying to hold onto his microphone and baseball cap and report on the center of a storm, Judge Terrence R. Nealon of the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas faced the swirling winds of change brought on by Hurricane Koken and, in doing so, brought more clarity to the issue of proper venue in post-Koken cases as well as the issue of whether the claims in these cases should proceed in a consolidated fashion or be severed.

By Daniel E. Cummins

10 minute read

January 25, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

As previously analyzed in this column, the new era of automobile accident litigation, dubbed "Hurricane Koken " due to the turbulent and uncertain path of the law and procedure in this regard, has continued to be guided by a split of authority among the various common pleas courts across Pennsylvania on how to properly handle such claims.

By Daniel E. Cummins

9 minute read

January 25, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

The New Year is still in its early stages and, less than one month in, it's not too late to renew those resolutions you may have already broken.

By Daniel E.Cummins

5 minute read

February 19, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Over the course of his career as an attorney and during his rise as a politician, Abraham Lincoln was famous for his wit and simple, yet compelling, way with words. He uttered many famous quotes that can serve as advice even for today's lawyers practicing nearly 150 years after his untimely death.

By Daniel E. Cummins

10 minute read

March 03, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

On Feb. 21, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a resounding 8-1 decision that has essentially almost entirely wiped out an injured patient's ability to sue a manufacturer of a medical device for damages arising out of the use of an allegedly defective dev

By Daniel E. Cummins

11 minute read

November 23, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

As the plaintiff's bar can attest, in either context, 2010 was a tough one for them given the number of defense-favorable decisions handed down over the past year.

By Daniel E. Cummins

14 minute read