Our firm is proud to announce our newly established First-Party Property Damage Claims Department. The attorneys in this department have extensive years of experience defending carriers in first-party property damage disputes. We are equipped to represent carriers in...
Leilani Brown joins McCormick & Priore, P.C. as an associate attorney in the Philadelphia Office. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Brown worked as an associate with an insurance defense law firm in Philadelphia, PA. At her prior firm, Ms. Brown assisted in cases...
Court of Appeals Rejects “Which of These Is Not Like the Others” Argument In traditional mob movies, when someone walks into a room with plastic covering the floor it’s never a good sign. A recent Court of Appeals decision shows us that it’s not great on the floor at...
Second Department Determines Reliable Historian Talked His Way into Question of Fact Sometimes all a plaintiff needs to say is that the ladder moved, and plaintiff fell off of it, to establish prima facie entitlement to summary judgment in a Labor Law § 240(1) case. ...
First Department Holds that Plaintiff’s Labor Law § 240(1) Claim Fits the Mold If you’ve ever seen Friends, you know that you don’t help Ross move heavy objects up a staircase and, as the First Department reminds us, you don’t do it without a hoist. In DaSilva v. Toll...
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On January 17, 2024, the Appellate Division issued a decision in Allure Pet Products, LLC, v. Donnelly Marketing & Development LLC, et al., ---A.3d-----, 2024 WL 172209 (App. Div. 2024) which answered whether a New Jersey court could exercise personal jurisdiction...
On January 11, 2024, the Supreme Court of New Jersey issued an opinion in DeSimone v. Springpoint Senior Living, et al., 256 N.J. 172 (2024), limiting the applicability to the Consumer Fraud Act’s refund provision, N.J.S.A. 56:8-2.11, to food-related...
First Department Issues Monthly Reminder that “Sole” Means “One” If you’re wondering why these musings are suspiciously light on defendants emerging victorious on a “sole proximate cause” argument, it’s because those decisions are few and far between. The First...