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The Legal Intelligencer

Trial Court Opinions Clarify Ability to Question Doctors

Two recent decisions out of Lackawanna County could have a broad impact on both plaintiffs and defendants seeking to question doctors about patient care, attorneys said.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

Lewis Brisbois Continues Growth Spurt in East, Midwest

The Am Law 100 firm announced that it has merged with the injury and insurance defense firm Mannion Gray, picking up new offices in five states.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Panel Allows Injured Student to Sue Sponsor of Israel Trip

A closely divided First Department panel is allowing a student injured while taking a "gap year" in Israel to sue the trip organizer, a New York synagogue, for failing to have its chaperones take her to physical therapy.
5 minute read

Law.com

GSK To Face Trial Over Reed Smith Partner's Suicide

Five years after Reed Smith's Stewart Dolin stepped in front of an oncoming train, his widow moved closer to trial in a case accusing GlaxoSmithKline of hiding the suicide risks of its antidepressant Paxil.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ritter v. Makos, PICS Case No. 16-0028 (C.P. Lycoming Nov. 5, 2015) Gray, J. (4 pages).

By | January 12, 2016
The Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law does not preclude an award of damages to the parent of a minor child injured in a motor vehicle accident.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Superior Court Affirms $2.3M Award for Concrete-Hose Injury

The state Superior Court has affirmed a $2.3 million judgment in favor of a construction worker who was injured when a concrete-pumping hose hit him in the head and knocked him off a wall and into a basement.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Found a Finger in Your Salad? There's a Go-To Lawyer for That

We at The Lit Daily get lots of press releases. Most of them have headlines like “EPA Radon Action Month.” And then there's this one, which arrived on Thursday: “Client of Eric Traut Sues Applebees After Finding Fingertip in Salad.”
2 minute read

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

Daily Report Online

Decatur Bike Lawyer Forms Hagen Rosskopf & Earle With Plaintiffs Firm

After 24 years solo, Decatur personal injury lawyer Bruce Hagen has formed a new firm, Hagen Rosskopf & Earle, with Ken Rosskopf, who focuses exclusively on bicycle wreck cases, and Hagen's senior associate, Myrlin Earle.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

In Case of Chatty Juror, $425,000 PI Verdict Kept Intact

A juror's momentary chat with a medical expert following testimony was not reason enough for a mistrial, or to disturb the $425,000 verdict ultimately rendered in the case, a New Jersey appeals court said.
3 minute read

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