Kristie Rearick

August 20, 2024 | Daily Business Review

Several legislative changes focused on labor and employment areas such as teen labor rights and retirement benefits for public employees, are creating significant potential impacts on businesses and workers across the state.

By Katie Molloy and Cayla Page

5 minute read

August 20, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

AI offers businesses—including law firms—powerful tools to reach the right audience, optimize their advertising budgets, and ultimately grow their client base.

By Dobromir Kamburov

7 minute read

August 20, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Office of Open Records (OOR) released a memo confirming that FOIA Buddy is operated by people who have a stated goal of efficiently promoting government transparency and accountability in a cost-effective manner for all involved and that the OOR found no indication that FOIA Buddy is part of a phishing, scraping or scamming activity.

By Robert Max Junker and Anna R. Hosack

9 minute read

August 20, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

In The Legal's Insurance Law special section, read about PFAS coverage, regular use exclusions after Gallagher and defense counsel's responsibility to the insured and insurer.

By ALM Staff

2 minute read

August 20, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

FRCP 11(c) allows a federal court to impose the least severe penalty to deter repetition upon a law firm, counsel or a party.

By Matthew B. Weisberg

2 minute read

August 20, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

In recent years, new hazards have emerged that potentially implicate coverage under commercial general liability policies. Much attention has been paid to the liabilities associated with opioids and "PFAS," but there are many other examples of emerging hazards.

By Robert F. Walsh and Gianna Martorano

8 minute read

August 20, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

An insurance company's duty to defend carries with it a conditional duty to indemnify a settlement reached prior to judgment. When an underlying action is settled, there are often unresolved factual questions. In almost all circumstances, Pennsylvania law does not permit a trial of those facts in an insurance declaratory judgment action.

By Timothy P. Law and Lisa Szymanski

8 minute read

August 20, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

What factors are contributing to the desensitization of jury pools, leading to these unprecedented verdicts? More importantly, what can we, as defense lawyers, do to mitigate or at least slow down this trend?

By Barret S. Albritton

9 minute read

August 20, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

An inherent tension can arise between the carrier's obligation to protect the insured by resolving the litigation and the desires of the defendant, who quite understandably may feel that they have been wrongly sued and would prefer to see justice carried out rather than to pay and settle the case.

By Michelle McCliman and Marcelle Mouledoux

8 minute read

August 20, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

After the Pennsylvania Superior Court determined in 2021 that "regular use exclusions" in UM/UIM policies violate the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law (MVFRL), and in a post-Gallagher legal landscape, some were ready to put the regular use exclusion to rest for good. Now, however, in Rush v. Erie Insurance Exchange, 308 A.3d 780 (Pa. Jan. 29, 2024), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in a lengthy majority opinion, has confirmed that the regular use exclusion remains very much alive.

By Allison L. Krupp and Christopher W. Woodward

7 minute read