ALAN P. EPSTEIN, ESQUIRE AND SPECTOR GADON & ROSEN, P.C. v. SAUL EWING LLP

ALAN P. EPSTEIN, ESQUIRE AND SPECTOR GADON & ROSEN, P.C. v. SAUL EWING LLP No. 350 EDA 2009 2010 PA Super 190 Atlantic: n/a Filed: 10/15/2010
	Appeal from the Order Dated November 10, 2008, in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Civil Division, at No. January Term, 2006 No. 4539.
Before: BOWES, OLSON, and OTT, JJ.
Opinion by: BOWES, J.
Saul Ewing LLP appeals by permission from the interlocutory order determining the “case within a case” involved in this legal malpractice action. We affirm.

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MARK W. AMBROSE AND RONALD A. KRAMER v. CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK OF EVANS CITY, PENNSYLVANIA

MARK W. AMBROSE AND RONALD A. KRAMER v. CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK OF EVANS CITY, PENNSYLVANIA No. 847 WDA 2009 2010 PA Super 172 Atlantic: n/a Filed: 9/17/2010
	Appeal from the Order of April 17, 2009, in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Civil Division, at No. GD 04-021511.
Before: BENDER, BOWES, and COLVILLE, JJ.
Opinion by: BOWES, J.
Citizens National Bank of Evans City, Pennsylvania (“CNB”) appeals the order dated April 17, 2009 and entered on April 20, 2009, wherein the trial court clarified its April 18, 2009 award of attorneys’ fees totaling $201,704.79 to Mark W. Ambrose and Ronald A. Kramer, hereinafter collectively referred to as Appellees. We affirm.

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK DESIGN AND PARADISE DISTRIBUTING, INC. v. THE BRETHREN MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY

TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK DESIGN AND PARADISE DISTRIBUTING, INC. v. THE BRETHREN MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY No. 1307 EDA 2009 2010 PA Super 155 Atlantic: n/a Filed: 8/23/2010
	Appeal from the Order of May 10, 2007, In the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County Civil Division at No(s): January Term, 2006, No. 03503
Before: ALLEN, LAZARUS, and FREEDBERG, JJ.
Opinion by: FREEDBERG, J.
Dissenting Opinion by: ALLEN, J.
Appellants, Telecommunication Network Design (“TND”) and Paradise Distributing, Inc. (“Paradise”), appeal from the May 10, 2007 Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County which, in this declaratory judgment action, held that Appellee Brethren Mutual Insurance Company (“Brethren”) had no duty to defend Paradise under certain provisions of two insurance policies. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm.

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CYNTHIA A. NORDI, AN INDIVIDUAL v. KEYSTONE HEALTH PLAN WEST INC., AND HIGHMARK, INC.

CYNTHIA A. NORDI, AN INDIVIDUAL v. KEYSTONE HEALTH PLAN WEST INC., AND HIGHMARK, INC. No. 1476 WDA 2008 2010 PA Super 11 Atlantic: n/a Filed: 1/22/2010
	Appeal from the Order entered August 26, 2008 In the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County Civil Division at No. GD-04-3664
Before: BENDER, BOWES AND CLELAND, JJ.
Opinion by: CLELAND, J.
Appellant Cynthia A. Nordi (Nordi) appeals the order of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas granting the summary judgment motions of Appellees Keystone Health Plan West, Inc. (Keystone) and Highmark, Inc. (Highmark) in a dispute over the extent of health insurance coverage provided by Keystone under an HMO plan administered, in part, by Highmark under a Service Agreement. The parties’ dispute requires us to address whether the Appellees violated the insurance “bad faith” statute, 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 8371, and whether an HMO is exempted from the bad faith statute by the Health Maintenance Organization Act, 40 P.S. §§ 1551-1567 (HMO Act). For reasons that follow, we affirm.

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LEVAN JOHNSON, SR. v. PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE COMPANY

LEVAN JOHNSON, SR. v. PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE COMPANY No. 3173 EDA 2008 2009 PA Super 255 Atlantic: n/a Filed: 12/28/2009
	Appeal from the Order entered September 26, 2008 In the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County Civil at No(s): June Term, 2007, No 2307
Before: BOWES, PANELLA, and FITZGERALD, JJ.
Opinion by: BOWES, J.
On appeal, Levan Johnson assails the propriety of the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Progressive Insurance Company on Appellant’s statutory bad faith insurance claim. We hereby affirm.

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Superior Court - BARBARA J. GUNN v. THE AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

BARBARA J. GUNN v. THE AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT No. 1345 WDA 2008 2009 PA Super 70 Atlantic: n/a Filed: 4/15/2009
	Appeal from the Order entered July 25, 2008, in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Civil at No. GD-07-002888
Before: FORD ELLIOTT, P.J., LALLY-GREEN, and ALLEN, JJ.
Opinion by: ALLEN, J.
Dissenting Opinion by: LALLY-GREEN, J.
Appellant, the Automobile Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut (“Appellant”) appeals from the judgment entered in favor of Appellee, Barbara Gunn (“Gunn”) following the trial court’s denial of Appellant’s motion to sever and stay a statutory bad faith claim. The instant matter arises out of a two-count complaint filed by Gunn against Appellant. Gunn’s first count is a breach of contract claim (“UIM claim”) against Appellant, her insurance carrier, for failure to pay underinsurance motorist (UIM) benefits. The second count is a bad faith claim alleging that Appellant failed to act on Gunn’s claim for underinsured motorist benefits in good faith, in violation of 42 Pa.C.S. § 8371.

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