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December 08, 2008
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Times are tough. The weakened economy has spared few industries, causing companies big and small to re-examine their personnel needs and make tough decisions. hard times require businesses to strengthen their resolve to avoid the legal tsunami that can result from such economy-driven decisions. This article sets forth the best practices to help your company minimize its potential exposure in five primary areas.
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December 05, 2008
Press Release
Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Designated 2009 Washington Rising Stars By Law & Politics
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December 05, 2008
Press Release - Appellate, Professional Liability
Cozen O’Connor Member H. Robert Fiebach Named Chair Of ABA’s Standing Committee On Substance Abuse
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December 02, 2008
Press Release - Bad Faith, Insurance Coverage
Cozen O’Connor Members Lecture On Bad Faith Litigation
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December 01, 2008
Press Release
Nine attorneys from the firm’s Philadelphia office and two from the West Conshohocken office were named 2008 Pennsylvania ''Rising Stars'' by Law & Politics.
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December 01, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage
Washington Supreme Court Allows Insured to Maintain Procedural Bad Faith Action Against Insurer That Has No Duty to Defend, Settle, or Indemnify - Insurance Coverage Alert! - In St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. Onvia, Inc., 2008 WL 5006458, --- P.2d --- (Wash. No. 80359, Nov. 26, 2008), the Washington Supreme Court held that an insurer may be liable for procedural missteps in handling a claim even if
there exists no contractual duty to defend, settle, or indemnify. Addressing questions certified from the U.S. District Court, the Supreme Court confirmed the viability of causes of action for common law bad faith and violation
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December 01, 2008
Publication - Intellectual Property
A Survey of Damage Awards in Counterfeiting Cases - IP Litigator -
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November 24, 2008
Press Release
Cozen O’Connor Vice Chairman Patrick J. O’Connor Joins Board Of St. Jude
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November 24, 2008
Publication - Insurance Corporate & Regulatory, Insurance Coverage
New York Insurance Department Regulatory Actions - Insurance Corporate and Regulatory Alert! - PARTIAL REGULATION OF CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS SUSPENDED IN LIGHT OF FEDERAL PROGRESS ON COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH As previously reported in our Fall 2008 Insurance Regulatory Observer, the New York Insurance Department (the “Department”) announced that it intended to regulate certain types of credit default swap (“CDS”) contracts beginning January 1, 2009.1 In light of the
progress being made on the federal level to create central counterparties and oversight for
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November 24, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage, Products Liability
Northern District of California Concludes Complaint Potentially Seeks Damages... - Insurance Coverage Alert! - The United States District Court for the Northern District of California recently denied an insurer’s motion to dismiss, reasoning that class action claimants potentially sought damages because of bodily injury, despite the fact that the claimants’ “complaints . . . did not seek damages for physical injury.” Plantronics, Inc. v. American Home Assurance
Co., No. C 07-6038 PVT, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88921 at * 4 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 20, 2008).
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November 22, 2008
Press Release
Cozen O'Connor has announced that its 2008 first year associates in the Philadelphia office have been admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar. These new associates were sworn in to the Bar by the Honorable Susan Peikes Gantman, Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. “We are quite proud of this energetic group and offer them congratulations as they embark on their legal careers as attorneys at Cozen O'Connor,” said Thomas A. Decker, president and CEO of Cozen O'Connor.
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November 21, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage, Products Liability
Georgia Court of Appeals Applies Exclusion M to Contaminated Bread Claims - Insurance Coverage Alert! - The Georgia Court of Appeals recently upheld an
insurer’s denial of coverage for claims related to use of contaminated bread through application of Exclusion m, the impaired property exclusion. See Lavoi Corp. v. National Fire Ins. of Hartford, 666 S.E.2d 387, 395 (Ga. Ct.
App. 2008).
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November 20, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage, Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
The Re-Invigoration of the Consumer Products Safety Commission - Subrogation Alert! - 2 pgs total. Several provisions of the Act will be of particular interest to the subrogation community. The Act requires the CPSC to create an online, publicly available database for consumer products, which will provide greater and easier access to product defect information. 1. The Act Mandates a Consumer-Friendly, Searchable Database. 2. The Act Mandates Stiffer Penalties for Companies.
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November 20, 2008
Publication - Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Labor & Employment
December 31, 2008 is the deadline for revising nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements to comply with Internal Revenue Code Section 409A. While the rules have been in effect since 2004, the deadline for conforming all documents that are subject to Section 409A was extended from the end of last year and is not expected to be extended further. Although Section 409A addresses only non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements, the final regulation.
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November 19, 2008
Publication - Business
End-of-Year Estate Planning - Trusts & Estates Alert! - As we march quickly through the last quarter of 2008, consider
the following for this year and for 2009.
2008 ANNUAL EXCLUSION GIFTS - $12,000
2008 AND 2009 CHARITABLE DONATIONS FROM IRAS
2009 ANNUAL EXCLUSION GIFTS - $13,000
2009 INCREASE IN COMBINED ESTATE AND GIFT TAX
EXCLUSION TO $3.5 MILLION PER PERSON
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November 18, 2008
Press Release - Family Law
Cozen O’Connor Attorney Jennifer A. Brandt Lectures On Divorce For Main Line School Night
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November 18, 2008
Press Release - White Collar Defense & Investigations
Cozen O’Connor member Hayes A. Hunt has been appointed Adjunct Professor of Law at Temple University’s James E. Beasley School of Law. He will be teaching in Temple’s Integrated Trial Advocacy Program (ITAP), a program that incorporates three courses — Civil Procedure II, Evidence and Trial Advocacy — to prepare students to represent their clients in the courtroom. This will be the second year Hunt has taught this course as an Adjunct Professor.
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November 18, 2008
Publication - Labor & Employment
Family and Medical Leave Act - Labor and Employment Alert! - Yesterday the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued final regulations under the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”). These regulations mark the first sweeping changes made to the FMLA since its enactment in 1993. The regulations, which may be accessed at http://www.dol.gov/
esa/whd/fmla/finalrule.pdf, go into effect on January 16, 2009. Employers need to understand the changes and be ready to implement them.
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November 17, 2008
Press Release - Insurance Coverage, Subrogation & Recovery
Cozen O’Connor Presents 2008 Dallas Insurance Litigation Seminar
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November 17, 2008
Publication - Labor & Employment
Educate yourself and your employees about best practices to help avoid wage-and-hour lawsuits - Nation's Restaurant News -
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