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…
The following appellate cases of interest were decided by the Utah Supreme Court, Utah Court of Appeals, and United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
By: Keith A. Call
While noting the many strengths of Utah’s attorney discipline system, the ABA recommended specific reforms designed to increase public trust and confidence in the system as well as the speed and efficiency of the process.
By: Heather S. White
Attorney Heather S. White’s PowerPoint presentation, Officer-Involved Critical Incident Department Debriefings, given at the UMAA conference in May 2019.
Contact: Richard A. Vazquez In Allegis Investment Services, LLC v. Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., 2019 WL 1002364, –F.Supp.3d–, (D. Utah Mar. 1. 2019) Utah Senior Federal District Court Judge Dale A. Kimball granted Indian Harbor Insurance Company’s motion for summary…
Contact: Richard A. Vazquez The Tenth Circuit recently addressed the scope of insurer duties to defend and indemnify under Utah law in Banner Bank v. First American Title Insurance Company, 916 F.3d 1323 (10th Cir. 2019). As stated by the Tenth…
