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September 28, 2023 | Insurance Coverage Law Center

Pa. Supreme Court Evaluates Punitive Damages Exposure In Insurance Bad Faith Cases

While it is well known that an insured has a clear and convincing standard of proving bad faith in order to recover such damages, it is lesser recognized that an insured does not have to prove outrageous conduct or evil motive to prove entitlement to punitive damages.
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September 28, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Supreme Court Evaluates Constitutional Parameters of a Jury's Punitive Damage Award

While it is well known that an insured has a clear and convincing standard of proving bad faith in order to recover such damages, it is lesser recognized that an insured does not have to prove outrageous conduct or evil motive to prove entitlement to punitive damages.
6 minute read
September 28, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

People in the News—Sept. 28, 2023—Sweet Stevens, Saxton & Stump

Two attorneys from Sweet, Stevens, Katz & Williams are scheduled to take a lead role at the annual Pennsylvania Bar Institute Exceptional Children Conference.
3 minute read
September 28, 2023 | Law.com

West Virginia High Court Sides With Attorney Accused of Failing to Get Client's Blood Test Evidence Admitted Into DUI Case

A split West Virginia Supreme Court has affirmed a circuit court's order dismissing a legal-malpractice complaint in which a client alleged his lawyer failed to get the blood test results of a DUI stop admitted into evidence.
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September 28, 2023 | Law.com

Washington Supreme Court Majority Clarifies 'Juvenile Strikes' in 'Three Strikes Law' for Sentencing Courts, Persistent Offenders

"[T]he Supreme Court held that Washington's mandatory 'Three Strikes' law may be applied to childhood offenses, and that crimes committed by a child may count as automatic 'strikes' toward a life without parole sentence," Jan Trasen, of the Washington Appellate Project, said in statement. "This disregards evidence-based [Washington state] precedent that 'children are different' from adults, and that they must be sentenced differently. As the dissenting justices said, 'A juvenile charged and sentenced in adult court does not magically become an adult because of the venue in which the case is resolved. … Children are different and age matters.'"
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September 28, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Only 1 Candidate for Judge: JNC Shortlists Lawyer to Rise to Bench

The Judicial Nominating Commission of Georgia has shortlisted a single candidate to fill a new judgeship created by legislation in the Dougherty Judicial Circuit.
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September 28, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Suit: Fall on Defective Stairs Caused Vision Impairment

On Oct. 16, 2019, plaintiff Kathleen Bleakley, 76, was walking toward a clothing boutique in a small strip mall in Wexford. She claimed that she tripped and fell on stairs which caused her to strike her face against a brick windowsill, fracturing her orbital bone.
3 minute read
September 28, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Employees Sue Old Dominion, Claiming 401(k) Performs Worse Than Alternatives

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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September 28, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal

How the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Expands the Duty To Accommodate

The PWFA expands the pregnancy-related protections of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which amended Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect employees from discrimination based on pregnancy or related conditions but does not impose an accommodation obligation.
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September 28, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Big Law Sidelined as Asian IPOs Listing in New York Skew Smaller and Favor Boutiques

Instead of Big Law players such as Kirkland and Davis Polk, firms such as Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li and Loeb & Loeb have taken the majority market share.
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