Like a Weather Channel weatherman leaning into driving rain and gale force winds while trying to hold onto his microphone and baseball cap and report on the center of a storm, Judge Terrence R. Nealon of the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas faced the swirling winds of change brought on by Hurricane Koken and, in doing so, brought more clarity to the issue of proper venue in post-Koken cases as well as the issue of whether the claims in these cases should proceed in a consolidated fashion or be severed.
In his April 8 decision in the case of Bingham v. Poswistilo, Nealon issued the most thorough trial court opinion to date on the question of consolidation versus severance of third-party claims and UIM claims in post- Koken Matters.
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