Publications
New Jersey recognizes same-sex marriages.
The plaintiffs brought a constitutional challenge to New Jersey’s parallel marriage/civil union structure in which same sex couples could not marry but could enter into civil unions.
Claimants awarded more than $6 million in FINRA arbitration related to transactions in real estate investment trusts.
The claimants filed a FINRA Arbitration in Minneapolis, Minnesota, seeking compensatory damages of $12.5 million related to the recommendation of several allegedly unsuitable transactions in real estate investment trusts and other real estate inve
Claimants have significant recovery in FINRA arbitration related to investments in Inland offerings.
The claimants filed a FINRA Arbitration in Tampa, Florida, related to their investments in illiquid Inland Western and Inland American Real Estate Investment Trust offerings.
Broker found to have no duty to warn of tax implications.
The customer complained that the broker failed to adequately advise her of the tax implications of her premature withdrawal from a variable annuity in an IRA. The arbitrator found in favor of the broker and broker/dealer on all counts.
Case dismissed under FINRA six-year eligibility rule.
A Washington, D.C.
Delaware Supreme Court concludes that medical bills of a non-certified provider are not compensable because preauthorization was necessary.
The Delaware Supreme Court rejected the Superior Court’s decision in Vanvliet v. D&B Transp., 2012 WL 5964392 (Del. Super. Ct. Nov.
An employee injured in a motor vehicle accident that occurs when he is returning to the workplace from a lunch break was not within the course and scope of his employment.
This case involved a petition to determine compensation due filed on behalf of the claimant alleging that his motor vehicle accident on July 2, 2012, occurred during the course and scope of his employment and, therefore, was compensable.
The employer’s making of medical payments over an 18-month period was done under a feeling of compulsion and thereby tolled the statute of limitations.
This case was tried before the Superior Court regarding the employer’s appeal from a Board decision that granted the claimant’s petition to determine additional compensation due by awarding payment of medical expenses as well as a coun
Petitioner’s claim dismissed based on an adverse inference drawn from petitioner’s failure to produce either the testimony or records of his treating cardiologist.
The petitioner was employed by the respondent from 1961 through 1974 and again from 1986 though his retirement in 1999.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that a Pennsylvania state trooper who struck and killed a woman with his patrol car was entitled to benefits for a psychic injury due to abnormal working conditions.
The claimant, a trooper for the Pennsylvania State Police, was driving his patrol car early on a dark morning when a woman, dressed all in black, suddenly ran in front of his vehicle and was struck by the car.