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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a Sieracki unseaworthiness finding.
In Rivera v.
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The Recreational Use of Land and Water Act does not provide immunity from negligence to a licensee of a landowner when the licensee lacks possessory rights to the land and the public is charged for use of the land.
The plaintiff, a snowmobile operator, was injured
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The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania rules that liability expert’s reports produced by a non-moving party in response to a motion for summary judgment must be considered in a light most favorable to the non-moving party.
The plaintiff was injured when the snow tube he w
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An indemnification provision in a release is valid and enforceable against the spouse who actually signed the release.
The plaintiff-wife sustained injuries while ridin
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Court held a defendant-contractor owed duty of care to plaintiff, a third party, based on Restatement (Second) of Torts §§ 324A and 383, and this duty extends to reasonably foreseeable risks arising from the performance of contractual obligations.
The plaintiff, as he walked to his delivery truck
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As a matter of first impression, a licensed retail store owns a terminal-printed lottery ticket as soon as it was printed, regardless of whether it was mistakenly printed and remained unsold to any customer.
The plaintiff-store was a retailer licensed to se
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An agreement between a university and a teaching hospital that incorporated the 2011 Florida sovereign immunity statute was granted sovereign immunity even though its medical doctor employee provided care to his private patient.
The University of Miami d/b/a Miller School of Me
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Florida governor shortens statute of limitations for certain employment discrimination claims.
The Florida Commission on Human Relations (FCHR)
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Standing found where a shareholder alleged an individual injury separate and apart from the corporate entity.
This matter arose from claims of breach of contract, breach of implied contract, quasi contract, breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and qua
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District Court dismisses claim for insurance benefits against employer, finding it was the plan administrator, not the employer, who made the benefits determination.
This matter arises from the plaintiff’s claim under Section 502(a)(1)(B) of the Employee Retirement Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), seeking to recover insurance
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