Nov 1, 2019 | Articles & Updates
Article by Daniel J. Margonari, Esq. On October 31, 2019, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in Yanakos v. UPMC, 10 WAP 2018 (Pa. 2019), removed the seven-year deadline for filing medical malpractice actions in Pennsylvania. Since its passage, the MCARE Act has placed a...
Oct 29, 2019 | Articles & Updates
The United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania recently held that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision in Gallagher v. GEICO does not invalidate the “regular use exclusion” in insurance policies. See Barnhart v. The Travelers Home...
Oct 24, 2019 | Articles & Updates
Article by Holli K. Bott, Esq. Burns White recently handled a matter in which a hospital sought to change a patient’s code from Full Code to DNR. The patient had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and on a ventilator for several weeks. Although there was no...