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New Jersey Law Journal

Firm Bounced From Auto Case After Handling Coverage Fight

Pomeroy, Heller & Ley's representation of an insurer in a dispute stemming from a fatal car accident prevents the firm from also representing the defendant driver in the underlying wrongful death and personal injury case, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Morning Wrap: Gun Fight | Do the Justices Have Mail?

President Obama is set today to roll out executive action on gun control. The Justice Department urges the Supreme Court to strike down Texas abortion regulations. And a public-records suit in Washington seeks any email correspondence between the solicitor general and the justices. This is a news roundup from NLJ and other publications.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Diminished Value in Automobile Damage Cases

At times, we as practitioners lack a keen sense for the obvious. Take, for example, the instance of a rear-ended personal injury client, where the natural focus is usually upon a recovery for bodily injury.
8 minute read

Law.com

'Similar Incident' Evidence Permitted at GM Trial

Evidence of similar incidents involving ignition defects and air bag deployment failures in General Motors vehicles may be introduced at the first bellwether product liability trial in January, a federal judge has ruled.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Justices Highlight Shortcomings of MVFRL Peer Review

Submitting a health care provider's invoices to a peer-review organization is sufficient for an insurance carrier to challenge a treatment as unnecessary and deny reimbursement under the state's Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has held.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judge in Volkswagen Case Seeks Settlement Master

A federal judge in California has asked plaintiffs lawyers suing Volkswagen for rigging U.S. emissions testing results to suggest the best person to oversee settlement of more than 500 class actions.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Compliance Expert Criticizes Substance and Tone of VW Scandal Moves

So far the words and actions of the Volkswagen Group's chief executives raise questions about whether they even want to change the corporate culture that engendered a 10-year-long emissions scandal, according to attorney Thomas Fox.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Lawyers Await Appellate Guidance on UIM Bifurcation

"When you're going to different counties, you're going to get different results," said plaintiffs attorney Michael J. Pisanchyn Jr., of the Pisanchyn Law Firm. "It's difficult to be able to tell a client with any type of consistency what's going to happen because there's no appellate guidance."
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Schoenberg v. State Farm Ins. Co., PICS CASE No. 151792 (C.P. Lackawanna Oct. 13, 2015) Minora, J. (14 pages).

By | December 15, 2015
Whether plaintiff's decedent made a valid sign-down of the UM/UIM coverage limits could not be determined where his signature on form could not be verified.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Uber Reworks Driver Agreements After Legal Loss

A high-profile worker classification lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. in California has brought national attention to the question of whether workers in the sharing economy are full-fledged employees or just contractors on a digital platform. The issue is at the center of O’Connor v. Uber, but it hasn’t been the only one that matters as the case makes its way through the courts.
5 minute read

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