One Worker Missing After Explosion at Massachusetts Chemical Plant May 4, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson One worker is missing and the building is severely damaged after an early morning explosion at a pharmaceutical chemical plant...
New Jersey Appeals Court Affirms War Exclusion Does Not Apply to Cyber Attack May 2, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson The appellate division of New Jersey Superior Court has upheld a state trial court opinion that the war exclusion in...
Court Upholds Denial of Widow’s COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation Death Claim May 2, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson The widow of a man who died from COVID-19 has been denied workers’ compensation benefits because she failed to prove...
Court Reinstates Criminal Charges Against Veterans’ Home Officials Over COVID Policies May 1, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson Massachusetts’ highest court overruled a lower court judge Thursday and reinstated criminal neglect charges against two top former officials at...
Virginia School: Workers’ Comp Bars $40M Suit by Teacher Shot by 6-Year Old April 27, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson The Newport News public school board says the $40 million lawsuit filed against it by the teacher who was shot...
Pennsylvania High Court Addresses When Stacked Coverage Waiver Is Not Needed April 27, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson The removal of a vehicle from a multiple motor vehicle insurance policy, in which stacked coverage had previously been waived,...
Massachusetts High Court Opens 27,000 Drunk Driving Cases to Reconsideration April 26, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that 27,000 people who pled guilty or were convicted of drunk driving from...
Pennsylvania Hospital Wins Second Shot at Equitable Relief in Medical Malpractice Case April 26, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson A federal appeals court is giving a Pennsylvania hospital another opportunity to have $1.75 million of its medical malpractice insurance...
Two Charged With Setting Philadelphia Fire That Killed Firefighter for Insurance Money April 21, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson The owner of a Philadelphia building that caught fire and collapsed last summer, killing a city firefighter and injuring five...
Workers’ Comp Takes Bite Out of Employee Right to Sue Third Party: Pennsylvania High Court April 20, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson A Pennsylvania employer cannot be sued for blocking an employee from suing the third party responsible for her workplace injury,...