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Case summaries are authored by members of Snow Christensen & Martineau’s Appellate Practice Group. For more information, visit our Appellate Highlights page. Utah Supreme Court Keystone Insurance Agency, LLC v. Inside Insurance, LLC 2019 UT 20 (May 29, 2019) In…
By: Robert T. Denny
The New York City Bar Association’s Professional Ethics Committee recently issued a formal opinion on agreements to receive cryptocurrency as payment for legal services.
The Utah Supreme Court ruled a state law requiring medical malpractice plaintiffs to obtain a “certificate of compliance” from a state agency is unconstitutional. A suit that accused a hospital of negligently causing a patient’s death was reinstated. The hospital…
By: Heather S. White
All summaries are written by Heather White and are for informational purposes only. Snow Christensen & Martineau represented clients in some of the cases listed below, but the firm was not legal counsel for all of them. Coburn v. Whitaker Construction In…
By: Keith A. Call
Contact: Keith A. Call Originally appeared in the Utah State Bar Journal, July/Aug 2019. The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (the Committee) recently took aim at a problem it perceives among prosecutors of misdemeanor crimes. The…
Snow Christensen & Martineau presents its annual Utah Tort and Insurance Seminar Friday, October 25, 2019 Utah Law and Justice Center 645 South 200 East Salt Lake City, Utah 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Registration opens in October
The court of appeals affirmed the dismissal of tort claims brought by a homeowner against a geotechnical engineering company under the statutory economic loss rule found in Utah Code § 78B-4-513(1). The court concluded that the tort claims were “an…
The district court reduced the amount of alimony awarded to the wife based on wife’s “fault” that “substantially contributed” to the demise of the marriage. The Utah Supreme Court interpreted the statutory requirement that the fault “substantially contributed to the…
