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August 9, 2018 Please join me at Perrin Conferences’ National Asbestos Litigation Conference on October 1-3, 2018 at The Fairmont San Francisco Hotel. I will be speaking on a panel titled Jurisdictional Update – Overview of the Most Active and Emerging Jurisdictions. This multiple day conference will host speakers and […]

August 8, 2018 It is fair to assume that most attorneys will miss at least one filing deadline at some point during their career. When this happens, the million dollar question becomes whether the Court will accept the filing past the deadline. In Meadowbrook Center, Inc. v. Robert Buchman , […]

August 7, 2018 MKC’s Florida office was recently successful in obtaining a decision by the Fourth District Court of Appeals in the case, Southern Wall Products, Inc. v. Steven E. Bolin and Deborah Bolin, resulting in the dismissal of its client, Southern Wall Products, Inc., due to the lack of […]

August 6, 2018 A Philadelphia jury recently rendered a defense verdict in favor of a McGivney, Kluger & Cook, P.C. client, a regional supermarket chain. Peter Kennedy, a Partner in the firm’ s Pennsylvania office, represented the client. The Plaintiff alleged that she slipped and fell on a clear liquid […]

August 1, 2018 In a recent decision, New Jersey’s Supreme Court ended a controversy as to whether a plaintiff that recovered a verdict, which was subsequently molded downwards pursuant to a negotiated high/low agreement, could thereafter obtain legal fees and interest pursuant to R . 4:58, the offer of judgment […]

August 1, 2018 A pair of Pennsylvania State Court opinions issued in June 2018 illustrates how significant closed circuit television or videotape evidence has become in the litigation of retail premises liability and other negligence cases. In Schneider v. Giant Food Stores, LLC , the Pennsylvania Superior Court reviewed the […]

July 26, 2018 What started as a mother’s curiosity ended in the retail company Claire’s filing for bankruptcy. That’s right! Your 12 year old daughter’s favorite place for jewelry and makeup is in big trouble, but not for the reason you may think. Back in 2017, mother, Kristi Warner of […]

July 23, 2018 On July 10, 2018, the New Jersey Appellate Division issued a decision in Egg Harbor Care Center v. Scheraldi et al. , Docket No. A-2956-16T4, which upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a case brought against a California resident, among others. Plaintiff, Egg Harbor Care Center (“Egg […]

July 23, 2018 In Regina Little v. KIA Motors America, Inc., on June 6, 2008, a jury in Union County, New Jersey found in favor of the plaintiff class and against KIA Motors America, Inc. (“ KMA” ) in the amount of $750 per class member, or $6,300,000.Plaintiffs claimed that […]