The following cases categorized as "insurance" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on June 3. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
Troutman Pepper received several awards at the Global M&A Network’s 2021 USA M&A Atlas Awards last month – the coveted “Healthcare M&A Law Firm of the Year” award, and two health sciences-focused recognitions, including the “Pharmacy Services Deal of the Year,” and “Deal of the Year – Mid Markets.”
PHILADELPHIA – The National Football League announced it will stop a practice known as “race-norming” – which operated under the assumption that Black players began their football careers with decreased cognitive function as compared to white colleagues – in its handling of the billion-dollar settlement program of brain injury claims brought by former NFL players, and examine past determinations for examples of racial bias.
Zach Torres-Fowler, an attorney in Troutman Pepper’s Construction Practice Group, has been named Regional Director for the Society of Construction Law North America’s Delaware Valley region.
Troutman Pepper Partner Erica Wilson has been named among The Deal’s Top Rising Stars: Class of 2021, honoring exemplary new partners at top U.S. law firms.
Troutman Pepper Partner Matthew Hamilton is a 2021 recipient of the Outstanding Contributor award from Lawyers for Civil Justice (LCJ) for his volunteer work with the organization.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia attorney alleges that improper conduct on the part of Pierce Bainbridge founder John M. Pierce, in the form of threatening an unauthorized legal malpractice suit, was done in an attempt to notch a dismissal in a fee-sharing dispute matter.
PHILADELPHIA – A diverted federal discrimination case brought by two retired National Football League players against the organization – claiming that it manipulated cognitive function data to make it less likely Black players would receive proceeds from the 2016 concussion settlement – will now be heard before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
PHILADELPHIA – Wawa is seeking to dismiss a New Jersey developer’s anti-trust litigation against a Pennsylvania competitor, which claimed the latter is conspiring to prevent it from developing a major retail project featuring the Royal Farms Convenience Store in the vicinity of a Merck headquarters.
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that our firm has nominated and the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (“LCLD”) has selected partner Melanie S. Carter to join the 2021 LCLD Fellows Program and associates Asima J. Ahmad and Ernestine J. Mings to join the 2021 LCLD Pathfinder Program.
