Two doctrines frequently arise in Pennsylvania jurisprudence when addressing disputes between the parties to a contract: the parol evidence rule and the gist of the action doctrine. While each serves ...

The California Supreme Court has removed a legal barrier for litigants seeking to invalidate contracts on the basis of fraud. This case did not specifically concern insurance, but the ruling could ...

In any contractual dispute, a court's primary concern is to enforce the intentions and expectations of the parties to the agreement. When the agreement has been reduced to a complete and final ...

Last month, the California Supreme Court overruled longstanding precedent and restored to full force the fraud exception to California's parol evidence rule. In Riverisland Cold Storage, Inc. v.

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