{"id":1899,"date":"2014-07-22T13:19:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T17:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2018-10-25T07:54:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T11:54:31","slug":"liability-registers-failing-require-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=1899","title":{"rendered":"Liability of Register for Failing to Require Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has held that a Register of Wills who issues letters to a personal representative without a bond required by law is not immune from liability under the Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/legis\/LI\/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&amp;ttl=42&amp;div=0&amp;chpt=85\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">42 Pa.C.S. \u00a7\u00a7 8541-8542<\/a>, and may be liable for damages in accordance with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/legis\/LI\/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&amp;ttl=20&amp;div=0&amp;chpt=31&amp;sctn=72&amp;subsctn=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 3172<\/a>.\u00a0 Not decided was whether official immunity under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/legis\/LI\/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&amp;ttl=42&amp;div=0&amp;chpt=85&amp;sctn=46&amp;subsctn=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">42 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 8546(2)<\/a> might apply.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dorsey v. Redman<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=13826542446122218055\">96 A.3d 332<\/a>,\u00a0626 Pa. 195,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/J-129-2012mo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No. 13 WAP 2012<\/a> (Pa. 2014)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has held that a Register of Wills who issues letters to a personal representative without a bond required by law is not immune from liability under the Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act,\u00a042 Pa.C.S. \u00a7\u00a7 8541-8542, and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=1899\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[154,155],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-bond","tag-register-of-wills-liability","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5941,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/5941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}