The insurance industry and their corporate partners have spent a tremendous amount of money over the past two decades putting out propaganda to convince people that standing up for your own rights by seeking justice in a court of law makes you a bad person. If you file a lawsuit, you are bad. Many of my new […]

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On Sunday, February 24, 2019, most of us in the Eastern United States experienced severe winds. This was predicted, and I was hoping that our power would hold out, but I wasn’t so lucky. It came as no surprise when it went out Sunday morning and we became one of the 4800 plus customers without […]

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Each year millions of youths in schools and communities across the country hurt themselves or others through verbal, physical and digital means. The 2017 CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Study found that 21% of high school student are bullied on school property each year in Pennsylvania. That same study found that 17.3% of high school students are electronically […]

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Advances in modern equipment have increased the importance of what is now known as “End of Life Decision Making.” Our wishes about how we would like to be treated in the event we are in a coma, unable to make decisions for ourselves, or terminally ill, need to be made carefully and with great understanding […]

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Recently, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, in the case of Phillips v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., dismissed a plaintiff’s insurance bad faith claim, holding it was reasonable for an insurance company to refuse to pay some of its insured’s claims upon its own medical expert’s opinion rather than […]

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If you own a car in WV, OH or PA, state law requires that you carry liability insurance in certain minimum coverage limits. Most folks are aware of that fact. What folks often forget, however, are the other coverages that frequently appear in their auto insurance policies. One such often-overlooked coverage is medical payments, or […]

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Whether we like it or not – it is a well-known fact that the legal profession generally does not have a great reputation among the public. A quick google search will turn up hundreds of “lawyer jokes” that can be used at any time. When we think about why lawyers get such a bad rep […]

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There’s nothing worse for a corrupt politician than meeting someone who can’t be bought. It’s like watching a cat fall in a bathtub: you see first shock, and then anger, as though the world itself has betrayed him. A sellout simply assumes that everyone else is also selling and he bristles at a world where […]

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As the father of a United States Marine and a plaintiff’s personal injury attorney I get particularly worked up, and offended, when I hear stories about government contractors making money at the expense of our troops, particularly when it involves defective equipment our troops rely upon for their safety. 3M Company (hereinafter “3M”) sold Dual-Ended Combat […]

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Several blogs on this page have talked about the limits that landowners run into when trying to get reasonable compensation or repairs for their property when affected by mine subsidence. While the West Virginia Supreme Court recently issued rulings which seem to provide even more protections to coal operators there was one glimmer of hope […]

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