The Commonwealth Court has reinforced the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General’s authority to enter a contingent fee agreement with an outside firm to investigate potential violations of consumer protection law, ruling against a challenge from the subjects of an investigation.

In an en banc decision Monday, the court dismissed a petition for review filed by a number of skilled nursing facilities, which alleged the OAG’s contingent fee agreement with Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll to investigate those facilities was improper.

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