A Pennsylvania man is critically injured in West Virginia. The employer unilaterally files a compensation claim in Pennsylvania. Has the employee "elected" to proceed exclusively under Pennsylvania law?
This is a bad faith insurance case raising interesting choice-of-law issues. Where a claim is made for extracontractual damages, is an insured bound by the choice-of-law language contained in the policy?
Issues of long arm jurisdiction and minimum contacts in a case involving training given by an out-of-state company to its franchisee engaging in business in West Virginia.
In this insurance bad faith case, the insurer seeks a writ of prohibition challenging (1) the trial court's giving of an adverse inference instruction, and (2) the granting of summary judgment in the insured's favor on the substantially prevailing issue.