The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Eric Rosenberg | January 30, 2018
Over the last seven years, the U.S. Supreme Court has rapidly and dramatically altered the landscape of personal jurisdiction law. Specifically, the court issued six opinions that overturned a lower court's exercise of personal jurisdiction, reinforced due process limitations on state assertions of jurisdiction, and narrowed the scope of constitutionally permissible general and specific personal jurisdiction.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Larry Coben | January 30, 2018
After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its decision in Tincher v. Omega Flex, the committee appointed by the court to prepare jury instructions issued “suggested standard products liability instructions” (published by the PBI) in an effort to provide guidance to the bench and bar.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Joshua Lorenz | January 29, 2018
The United States is on the precipice of a massive skilled labor shortage, according to the 2017 Commercial Construction Index. Compiled by USG Corporation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the survey revealed “steady optimism from contractors about revenue forecasts and their backlog of work, yet concerns about the availability, training and cost” of hiring skilled workers in 2018.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Carl J. Schaerf and Lee C. Schmeer | January 29, 2018
Companies contracting with the federal government should be aware that significant changes are likely under the Trump administration in the manner in which the government solicits and funds contracts and the extent to which the government recognizes knowledge of risks related to the goods or services subject to such contracts. When faced with litigation involving government contracts, companies often employ the Government Contractor's Defense, which shields a contractor that has complied with reasonably precise government specifications from liability provided the contractor has warned the government of risks not otherwise known to the government.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Michael C. Zogby and Shane M. O'Connell | January 29, 2018
Courts have worked to construct rules for use before and during trial that ensure only true business records—that is, records of regularly conducted activity that carry an air of trustworthiness and reliability—are admitted into evidence, while avoiding admission of day-to-day communications and other documents that cannot be categorized as business records.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Stephen J. Finley | January 29, 2018
The last several years have brought significant developments to Pennsylvania products liability law, ranging from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decisions in Tincher v. Omega Flex and Lance v. Wyeth to rulings on the scope of evidence in the trial of a products liability case, to the application of the Pennsylvania Fair Share Act to a strict product liability claim.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Katayun I. Jaffari and Kimberly W. Klayman | January 29, 2018
Everyone is talking about them. Cryptocurrencies have become one of the most interesting technology tools of the last decade.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Vasilios J. Kalogredis | January 26, 2018
On Dec. 11, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held that medical labs do not have to independently verify the medical necessity of tests ordered by physicians and billed to government health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. The court issued this ruling in the case Groat v. Boston Heart Diagnostics.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | January 25, 2018
A team of lawyers from the Public Interest Law Center in Philadelphia and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer persuaded Pennsylvania's high court to strike down the state's congressional map, which favored Republicans. The impact could be huge.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Kenneth M. Portner | January 25, 2018
Pennsylvania law requires auto insurers to offer insureds the option to purchase uninsured motorist (UM) coverage. UM coverage provides compensation for insureds injured in accidents caused by the negligence of uninsured drivers or in “hit and run” accidents where the at-fault driver is never identified or by the negligence of underinsured drivers.
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