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Court punts case over arbitration clauses

Should a woman injured during an Uber ride be able to bring her case before a jury, or should she be forced into arbitration under the terms and conditions she and her husband accepted when signing up for the ride-sharing service? Advocates for a jury trial have been hoping the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would settle the matter in […]

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Court backs remote work as ADA accommodation

As employers struggle to bring workers back to the office, they face a new wrinkle, one that did not exist before the pandemic-induced pivot to remote work. Depending on the job, the option to work from home is becoming an accepted accommodation for people with disabilities. “Definitely the trend is heading in that direction,” said […]

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Fraud claims fly over West Shore hotel investment

Investors from Lancaster County are suing a State College hotel operator for allegedly misleading them before and after they invested in a Mechanicsburg-area hotel. The federal lawsuit accuses Shaner Hotel Group with supplying “false, misleading and incomplete information” while it was marketing the hotel investment in 2018. The suit further alleges that Shaner’s management of the hotel […]

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State court tosses another tax appeal

A state appeals court has rebuffed a company challenging a state tax reassessment, the latest ruling in a string of decisions related to laws governing the use of past operating losses to reduce corporate tax bills. This one goes back more than a decade. In 2013, Dow Chemical Co. used past losses to offset all its […]

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Adviser pushes back on agency penalty, wants jury trial

Should a Pennsylvania financial adviser accused of securities fraud be entitled to a jury trial before being subjected to a nearly $1 million civil penalty? A national legal watchdog hopes the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will say yes, even though a lower court already said no. “When the government seeks to impose life-altering financial penalties for […]

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Lawsuit targets West Shore Home over allegedly unpaid work

Home improvement contractor West Shore Home is facing a class-action lawsuit alleging it failed to pay hourly sales reps for work they performed before and after their shifts began, charges that have been lobbed at numerous companies over the years The lawsuit alleges that West Shore Home sales reps had to log into their computers and work-related […]

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NJ operator mulls bid for senior living campuses in Central PA

A second suitor is eyeing a bid for the assets of SpiriTrust Lutheran, a York-based nonprofit senior living provider that filed for bankruptcy in November amid rising costs and declining revenue. The potential bidder is Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey, which has been managing SpiriTrust’s campuses under an agreement inked in February 2024, according to court […]

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Trustee seeks liquidation of Heller assets in lieu of reorganizing

The independent trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of Lancaster County business owner Daryl Heller wants to convert Heller’s case from a Chapter 11 reorganization to a Chapter 7 liquidation. It’s a matter of the finances, according to a filing this week by the trustee, Fred Stevens of New York-based law firm Klestadt Winters Jureller Southard & Stevens.  […]

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Local law firm hit by data breach

A data breach struck a Lancaster law firm this fall, exposing personal information on about 2,200 people, according to a notice filed with the Maine Attorney General’s office. Law firm BCGL LLC discovered the breach in October after identifying suspicious activity in its network, according to the notice, which the firm filed this month. The firm said it […]

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