Author Archive for: "Brian T. Must"

Pennsylvania’s highest court recently refused to expand the equitable doctrine of abandonment to terminate an oil and gas lease. In SLT Holdings, LLC v. Mitch-Well Energy, Inc., 249 A.3d 888 (Pa. [...]

In Briggs v. Southwestern Energy Production Company, 224 A.3d 334 (Pa. 2020), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court considered whether the rule of capture immunizes an energy developer from liability in [...]

A dispute between the Commonwealth, the Pennsylvania Game Commission, and various trusts arose over the surface and the subsurface rights for numerous tracts of land in Sullivan and Bradford [...]

The Internal Revenue Service is beginning to make offers to settle some of the Section 831(b) micro captive insurance cases. You may already be aware that the IRS considers most micro captive [...]