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State Farm Insurance Company's In-House Counsel is seeking a Professional Legal Secretary with 2 years’ experience in a defense litigation firm.

The plaintiff claimed that she slipped and fell on some debris that was dark, slippery and smelled of rotten banana on the main walkway of the parking lot as she was leaving a Shop Rite grocery store. She filed suit for negligent maintenance of the premises.

This case of Gallagher v.

The “Hills and Ridges Doctrine” precludes liability “where the accident occurred at a time when general slippery conditions prevailed in the community as a result of recent precipitation.”  However, the hills and ridges doctrine can only be

Pennsylvania's Superior Court has held that opposition to a motion for summary judgment requires rebuttal evidence, not just rebuttal allegations. For a detailed summary of the case of American Southern Insurance Co. v. Halbert

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has granted the Third Circuit’s petition for certification of an issue that has puzzled insurers and their attorneys.

Members of PADC recently volunteered their time to attend a panel discussion at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law for law students interested in practicing civil defense litigation. The event was jointly sponsored by the Pennsylvania Defense Institute.

Erie Insurance Exchange recently filed suit alleging that it has no duty to defend or indemnify a financial planning company facing claims in federal court for willfully infringing a rival’s marketing slogan trademarks.

The Pennsylvania Superior Court recently reversed a trial court’s granting of summary judgment in favor of an insurer in a declaratory judgment action and ruled that coverage was owed to an insured following a fire at a vehicle dismantling facility. For a detailed

The Middle District of Pennsylvania recently dismissed a bad faith claim holding that it lacked adequate factual support that an insurance company acted unreasonably in valuing an underinsured motorist claim. For a detailed summary of the case of Clarke v.