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April 01, 2009
Publication - Products Liability
PREEMPTION IS NOT DEAD: A Fresh Look at Wyeth v. Levine in Context - Cozen O'Connor Whitepaper - A White Paper analyzing the state of the preemption doctrine in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Wyeth v. Levine 173 L. E. 2d 51 (Mar. 4, 2009)
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April 01, 2009
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An Arbitration Panel's Authority to Award Attorney's Fees, Interest and Punitive Damages - Rutgers Conflict Resolution Law Journal -
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April 01, 2009
Publication - Real Estate Litigation
Financing Issues to Consider When Negotiating Retail Leases in Strip Centers - The Real Estate Finance Journal -
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March 31, 2009
Publication - Insurance Coverage
Food Contamination: NUTS! Another Nut, Another Recall - March 31, 2009 - Insurance Coverage Alert! -
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March 27, 2009
Press Release
30 Wolf Block Attorneys Join Cozen O’Connor
Attorneys Board from Private Client Services, Real Estate, Tax, and Litigation
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March 27, 2009
Press Release - Family Law
Cozen O’Connor Attorney Jennifer A. Brandt Discusses Haleigh Cummings Case On CNN Headline News
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March 26, 2009
Publication - Business, Tax
New Cancellation of Indebtedness Rule - Tax Alert -
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March 25, 2009
Publication - Insurance Coverage
Environmental Contamination: Connecticut Supreme Court Holds That Silica Exclusions Are Not Ambiguous and Apply to Silicon in All its Forms - Insurance Coverage Alert! - In a declaratory judgment action initiated by an insurer, styled Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Lone Star Indus. Inc., et al., No. SC 18199 (Conn. Sup. March 24, 2009), the Connecticut Supreme Court, among other things, agreed with certain insurers of Lone Star, a silica and sand supplier, that a silicosis hazard exclusion endorsement that refers to “silicon,” rather than the chemically distinct “silica,” should be read broadly as applying to silicon in all its forms. In addition, affirming in
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March 25, 2009
Press Release - White Collar Defense & Investigations
Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Designated 2009 Washington, D.C., Super Lawyers By Law & Politics
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March 24, 2009
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The topic of climate change has become a significant public policy issue that has generated substantial discussion, controversy and debate. Recently, Steven Napolitano and Lincoln Wilson published an arresting article in Environmental Law 360 called “Why Climate Suits May not be ‘Next Big Thing.’”
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March 23, 2009
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
Fessing Up to Facebook: Recent Trends in the Use of Social Network Websites for Insurance Litigation - Canadian Subro Alert! - In December 2008, after several failed attempts to serve a couple with court documents by email and text messaging their mobile phones, an Australian lawyer won the right to serve a default judgment by posting the terms of the judgment on the defendant’s Facebook Wall. In a ruling that appears to be the first of its kind anywhere in the world, Master Harper of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory held that the lawyer could use the social networking site to serve court notices.
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March 17, 2009
Publication - Construction Law, Insurance Coverage - Real Estate & Construction
Construction Defects - Colorado Court of Appeals Rules Faulty Workmanship is Not an Occurrence - Insurance Coverage Alert! - On February 19, 2009, the Colorado Court of Appeals
held that a claim for damages arising from poor
workmanship, standing alone, does not allege an
accident that constitutes an occurrence, regardless of the
underlying legal theory pled. General Security Indemnity
Company of AZ v. Mountain States Mutual Cas. Co. (Case Nos.
CA07CA2291 & 07CA2292, February 19, 2009).
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March 16, 2009
Press Release - White Collar Defense & Investigations
Cozen O’Connor members Barry Boss and Hayes A. Hunt recently lectured on ''Witness Preparation and Direct Examination,'' as part of the District of Columbia Bar’s Essential Trial Skills Series. Boss and Hunt examined techniques and strategies for effective witness preparation and direct examination, including maximizing a witness' potential, while minimizing his or her weaknesses. They also discussed ethical issues in the context of witness preparation and direct examination.
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March 13, 2009
Press Release - Intellectual Property
Cozen O'Connor Member Scott B. Schwartz Speaks on TTAB Practice for PBI
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March 11, 2009
Press Release
Cozen O'Connor Member Scott B. Schwartz Served as Adjunct Professor for Drexel University
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March 11, 2009
Publication - Insurance Coverage
California Supreme Court Holds: Release "from" Rather Than "to" Dump Site is Relevant Release for Purposes of the "Sudden and Accidental" Pollution Exclusion - Insurance Coverage Alert! - In State of California v. Allstate Ins. Co. __ Cal.4th __ (March 9, 2009), the California Supreme Court made three holdings that have a major impact on environmental coverage and liability coverage in general. The Court explicitly disapproved the Court of Appeal’s decision in Golden Eagle Refinery Co. v. Associated Intern’l Ins. Co. 85 Cal. App. 4th 1300 (2001) on burden of proof issues and limited the scope of the Court of Appeal’s decision in
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March 07, 2009
Press Release
Tamar S. Wise has joined Cozen O’Connor’s Philadelphia office as an associate in the Commercial Litigation Department. Prior to joining the firm, she was an associate with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison in New York. Wise focuses her practice in commercial litigation matters, and has experience in a variety of securities, derivatives and breach of contract actions. She is admitted to practice in New York, and is fluent in Hebrew and Hungarian.
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March 03, 2009
Publication - Business, Health Care & Life Sciences, Technology, Privacy & Data Security - Health Care & Life Sciences
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Sweeping Changes to HIPAA Put Business Associates in the Spotlight - Health Law Alert! - On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (“HITECH” or the “Act”), as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The Act made
sweeping changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and the Privacy and Security Rules promulgated under HIPAA. This Alert focuses
primarily on Subtitle D of HITECH, which includes important
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March 01, 2009
Publication - Insurance Coverage
Another Year Of Americans Eating Dangerously: A Retrospective of 2008 Food Contamination Coverage Decisions - MEALEY'S LITIGATION REPORT Food Liability - For a third consecutive year, Americans began a new
year enduring another international food contamination outbreak. Like the two previous years, the outbreak involves a staple of the American diet. And, similar to the 2006 outbreak, the All-American food under attack is peanut butter.
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February 27, 2009
Publication - Insurance Coverage, Products Liability
On Jan. 30, 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that its criminal division and the U.S. Department of Justice were pursuing a criminal investigation of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA). This investigation comes on the heels of one of the largest food poisoning According to U.S. Center for Disease Control statistics, 654 people across 44 states have been infected with Salmonella Typhimurium from ingesting peanut-based products originating from PCA’s Blakely, Ga., facility.
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