Max Mitchell

October 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

In the wake of a report that Justice J. Michael Eakin received allegedly sexually explicit emails, the justice released a statement Friday admitting he received such emails, and said fellow Justice Seamus P. McCaffery threatened to release information linking Eakin to the emails unless Eakin pressured Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille to retract his earlier statements about McCaffery sending sexually explicit emails.

By Max Mitchell and P.J. D'Annunzio

7 minute read

October 17, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus P. McCaffery has issued an apology for sending pornographic emails, but fired back at Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille, calling him a liar over a statement the chief justice released Wednesday.

By Max Mitchell and P.J. D'Annunzio

5 minute read

October 16, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Former state Sen. Robert J. Mellow, who is a defendant in the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission corruption case, has been nolle prossed.

By Max Mitchell

2 minute read

October 16, 2014 | Law.com

Justice Seamus P. McCaffery was the only Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice to have sent or received any of the pornographic emails found as part of an internal review at the state Attorney General's Office, according to Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille.

By Max Mitchell and P.J. D'Annunzio

5 minute read

October 14, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Two insurance companies' failure to consider negotiating a settlement in the face of a potential billion-dollar loss on behalf of an insured should be sufficient justification for the insured to settle its claims for $80 million without the consent of the carriers, an attorney representing Babcock & Wilcox argued last week before the state Supreme Court.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

October 14, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

An insurance carrier should not be left unable to pursue litigation against a third-party tortfeasor if an injured party does not want to file suit, an attorney argued last Wednesday before the state Supreme Court in Pittsburgh.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

October 14, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Two insurance companies' failure to consider negotiating a settlement in the face of a potential billion-dollar loss on behalf of an insured should be sufficient justification for the insured to settle its claims for $80 million without the consent of the carriers, an attorney representing Babcock & Wilcox argued last week before the state Supreme Court.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

October 14, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Counsel for two restaurant owners told the state Supreme Court in Pittsburgh last week that a nearly 50-year-old case dealing with the definition of an insured in anomnibusinsurance policy's employer liability exemption is being applied too broadly, and the courts should have the discretion to interpret the precise language of the insurance policy at issue.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

October 14, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A 1920s land deed reserving oil and gas rights on state game lands by using "ordinary means now in use" will not bar an energy company from accessing those resources by horizontal drilling from an adjacent property, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

October 13, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The merger of two small Philadelphia firms, one focusing on qui tam cases and the other on medical malpractice cases, may be part of a growing trend of mergers at the small and midsize firm level.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read