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Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., LPA, a full-service creditors' rights law firm with over 90 years of client service, is pleased to announce the addition of attorney Cameron W. Deane to the firms Philadelphia office.

Weltman welcomes new Attorney Scott Best to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania office, where he will practice in the Consumer Collections and Commercial Collections Practice Groups.

Despite Pennsylvania courts tendency to enforce arbitration agreements, the Pennsylvania Superior Court denied a nursing homes attempt to compel arbitration, finding that the agreement was unconscionable.

In Mortimer v. McCool, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that the enterprise liability doctrine can be used to pierce the corporate veil. Under this doctrine, also referred to as single-entity or horizontal liability, a plaintiff may not only pursue the corporate debtor or tortfeasor but other affiliated companies.