Gibson & Perkins Litigation Alert – 03/05/2014
The Gibson & Perkins Litigation team has recently published a new Litigation Alert. On February 25, 2014, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania declined to hear the appeal of Pisano v. Extendicare Homes, Inc., effectively settling an important legal question regarding the scope of plaintiffs’ rights in wrongful death actions.
In August, the Superior Court determined that a decedent’s pre-death assent to a contractual arbitration provision, did not preclude his daughter’s wrongful death action and require arbitration of her claim.
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Mr. Perkins has been practicing as a transactional attorney for over twenty-five years.
He is a principal shareholder in the firm and also a member of the faculty of the Graduate Tax Program of the Villanova Law School. Mr. Perkins has taken his knowledge of tax online and is the founder and president of YourOnlineProfessor.net, a Web-based provider of CPE credit for CPAs.
Areas of Expertise:
Business Transactions, Real Estate, Estate Planning, Estate Administration, Tax Controversy, Commercial Litigation, Legal Malpractice, Accounting Malpractice, Orphans Court Representation Civil Appellate, Personal Injury
