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August 13, 2010
Press Release - Insurance
Cozen O’Connor to Devise BP’s Compensation Plan for Gulf Spill
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August 10, 2010
Press Release
Dexter Hamilton, Cozen O’Connor member resident in the Philadelphia office, gave a presentation for a Risk & Insurance Magazine Webinar on July 14th, which was sponsored by Zurich Services Corporation. Dexter’s presentation covered the legal issues associated with employees getting into motor vehicle accidents on company time due to distracted driving caused by talking or texting on a cell phone while driving.
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August 09, 2010
Press Release - White Collar Defense & Investigations
Cozen O’Connor Adds White-Collar Criminal Defense Attorneys J. Bruce Maffeo and Niki Warin to New York City Office
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August 09, 2010
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Ellyn Farley Honored for her Pro Bono Work in Illinois
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August 09, 2010
News - Family Law
Jennifer Brandt Talks Social Media, Divorce Proceedings on KYW Newsradio
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August 05, 2010
Publication - Insurance Corporate & Regulatory, Insurance Coverage - Insurance
Pennsylvania Insurance Department Issues Exemption from Filing/Prior Approval Requirements for Policy Forms Revised Only to Comply with PPACA Immediate Market Reform Requirements - Insurance Corporate and Regulatory Alert! - The Pennsylvania Insurance Department (the “Department”) recently issued Notice 2010-07 (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – Guidance for Compliance Filings). Notice 2010-07 provides an exemption from the forms filing/prior approval requirements under Pennsylvania’s Accident and Health Filing Reform Act for insurers that issue health insurance coverage subject to the PPACA immediate market reform requirements (i.e. health reform requirements that must be implemented
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August 01, 2010
Publication - Real Estate & Construction
SHARING RISK: Indemnification can be a valuable tool for builders - Construction Today - a familiar scenario – you are the general contractor on a large commercial project; the cast of characters working with you is huge,
the relationships complex. As the general contractor, your primary responsibility is the coordination of the construction, including scheduling and logistics so the work of your subcontractors is carried out as efficiently and smoothly as possible
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July 29, 2010
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
Summer 2010 - Subrogation & Recovery Observer -
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July 27, 2010
Publication - Business, Tax
License for Canned Software is Taxable - Tax Law Alert! - The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania held that a license to use canned software is a license to use tangible personal property and is therefore taxable for Sales and Use Tax purposes. Dechert LLP v. Commonwealth, No. 12 MAP 2008 (Pa., July 20, 2010). Oral argument on the appeal was held over 1 ½ years ago.
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July 27, 2010
Press Release - Antitrust & Competition, Aviation, Aviation Litigation, Government Relations - Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies, Professional Liability, Transportation & Trade
Sher & Blackwell to Join Cozen O’Connor
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July 26, 2010
Publication - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring, Business
Retirees Find that Employer's Bankruptcy May Be a Good Thing - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring Alert! - In deciding a question never before addressed by a circuit level court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in In re Visteon, No. 10-1944 (July 13, 2010), held that the plain language of section 1114 of the Bankruptcy Code forbids a debtor from modifying or terminating retiree benefits without first complying with that section’s procedural and substantive safeguards
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July 22, 2010
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
Update on the Implied Coinsured Rule (Subrogating Against a Tenant) - Subrogation and Recovery Alert! - A recent Wisconsin case clarifies an insurer's subrogation rights in the landlord-tenant context. When a tenant causes a loss and the landlord's insurer pays to repair the damage, the question in Wisconsin has been: Can the landlord's insurer recover against the tenant? In Wisconsin and other states, the landlord must show the tenant negligently or intentionally caused the damage. For further explanation,
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July 21, 2010
Publication - Business, Corporate, Government & Regulatory, Government Relations - Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies
FCC Offers ‘Third Way’ On Authority Over Internet Service - New York Law Journal - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently ruled that the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) lacked jurisdiction over Comcast’s
Internet service. Comcast Corp. v. FCC, Docket No. 08-1291 (D.C. Cir. April 6, 2010). Therefore, the FCC lacked authority to impose upon Comcast nondiscriminatory obligations regarding such
services.
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July 14, 2010
Publication - Insurance Coverage - Insurance
In three decisions issued on June 24, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States limited a favorite tool of prosecutors—the honest services statute—to its ''solid core.'' Justice Ginsburg, delivering the opinion of the Court in Skilling v. U.S., narrowed the Fifth Circuit’s broad interpretation of 18 U.S.C. §1346, which criminalizes ''a scheme or artifice to defraud another of the intangible right of honest services,'' and remanded the case.
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July 12, 2010
Publication - Government & Regulatory, Government Relations - Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies
Philadelphia Enacts New Law Regulating Lobbying - Public Strategies Alert! - On June 16, 2010, Mayor Michael Nutter signed into law the first ever registration and reporting requirements for individuals engaged in lobbying with the city of Philadelphia. The law largely tracks the statutes which govern lobbying on the state level. It does not go into effect immediately, but will govern actions taken on or after July 1, 2011.
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July 09, 2010
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3rd Circuit Case Illustrates Certification Procedure's Efficiency - The Legal Intelligencer - Recently, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals invoked the little used procedure of “certification” of questions to the state Supreme Court to clarify an important issue of state law. The use of the certification procedure had the dual effect of providing the court and parties to the action an efficient method for resolution of pivotal and undecided state law issues while simultaneously reminding
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July 08, 2010
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Is a hedge fund behind that plaintiff? - CFO Zone - Many legal claims ‐ both legitimate and frivolous ‐ never make it to the court room simply because of the expense of litigation. But a new trend in third‐party litigation financing is changing that for some commercial plaintiffs by providing a funding source to assist with litigation expenses in exchange for a cut of a successful award or settlement. The principle source of this money is hedge funds, as they are finding certain
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July 07, 2010
Publication - Real Estate Litigation - Real Estate & Construction
Pennsylvania Suspends the Expiration Dates of Development Permits and Approvals Until July 2, 2013 - Real Estate Alert! - This Alert addresses an Act passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature and signed by the Governor just this week, suspending the expiration dates of development permits and approvals issued by state and local governments and agencies throughout Pennsylvania. The Act applies to permits and approvals that expired after December 31, 2008, as well as those permits and approvals that are otherwise scheduled to expire prior to July 2, 2013.
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July 01, 2010
Publication - Labor & Employment
Our Summer 2010 Labor and Employment Law Observer covers topics of interest to in-house counsel, human resources professionals and corporate management.
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July 01, 2010
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
Subrogation and Recovery Claims for Flood Losses - Cozen O'Connor Whitepaper - A flood caused by an act of God can neither be planned for nor prevented. But a flood caused or contributed to by an act of negligence, even if the negligence simply exacerbated the flooding, may present a recovery opportunity. To those skeptics who say that recoveries cannot be made on flood claims, we offer the Hurricane Katrina litigation
in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana as proof that recoveries are possible
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