P.j. D'annunzio

September 15, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

In response to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreeing to hear Bill Cosby's appeal of his sexual assault convictions, Montgomery County prosecutors have filed a brief arguing the comedian, formerly known as America's Dad, was rightly convicted of sex crimes.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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September 11, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal

A Middlesex County medical malpractice case, Munoz v. Sarkaria, in which a teenager's family claimed he sustained a brain injury while under anesthesia…

By P.J. D'Annunzio | David Gialanella

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September 10, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear argument in a case of first impression in which a default judgment against a Pennsylvania company rendered by a New Hampshire court was found void because of a lack of a certificate required under the Pennsylvania Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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September 10, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

"Examining the unambiguous statutory language in conjunction with the household vehicle exclusion," Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas President Judge David Ashworth wrote, "the court finds that such policies operate to 'strip an insured of default UM/UIM coverage without requiring an insurer to demonstrate, at a bare minimum, that the insured was even aware that the exclusion was part of the policy.'"

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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September 04, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

A three-judge appellate panel reversed the lower court's suppression of the evidence in favor of defendant Vismani Canales Carmenates.

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September 03, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

The court held that Erie Insurance could be held liable for $200,000 in coverage for injuries sustained by Christiana Montesano while traveling from her mother's home in Florida to her grandparents' home in Alabama.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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September 03, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

"Civil RICO might be the 'litigation equivalent of a thermonuclear device,' but this case is a dud," U.S. District Judge Joshua Wolson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said.

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August 27, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

"The parties' limited submissions reflect an arguable issue of fact with respect to Valenti's business activities in Pennsylvania and its targeted website activity under the sliding scale test," Lackawanna County Judge Terrence Nealon said.

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August 27, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

"This trial and the verdict prove that jury trials can safely resume," the plaintiff's lawyer, Brendan Lupetin of Meyers Evans Lupetin & Unatin, said. "The verdict also proves that if doctors or hospitals are negligent and hurt patients, they won't get a pass just because of the pandemic. Juries will do their job and uphold justice no matter what."

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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August 27, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

"Ciavarella essentially seeks to parlay the vacatur of three of six grouped counts into a de novo resentencing, to reopen virtually all factual findings made by the jury and the sentencing judge and affirmed on appeal, and to roll the dice in hopes of a more lenient sentence from a different judicial officer," Middle District Judge Christopher Conner wrote.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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