More than two years after vacating a $750,000 bench verdict and calling for a new trial because of what it said was a “conclusory” opinion by the trial judge, the Pennsylvania Superior Court, taking a second look at the case on remand from the state Supreme Court, has affirmed the lower court’s judgment.

Last October, in Dolan v. Hurd Millwork, the justices unanimously reversed a September 2017 ruling in which the Superior Court said it was forced to vacate the judgment and order a new trial because the trial judge who rendered the verdict failed to adequately explain his reasoning and had since retired from the bench.

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