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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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November 17, 2008
Press Release
Cozen O’Connor Presents Trends In Litigation Seminar
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November 17, 2008
Press Release - Insurance Coverage, Subrogation & Recovery
Cozen O’Connor Presents 2008 New York Insurance Seminar
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November 17, 2008
Publication - Immigration Policy & Strategy, Labor & Employment
E-Verify for Federal Contractors and Subcontractors Required Starting January 15, 2009 - Labor and Employment Alert! - Beginning January 15, 2009, many federal contractors and subcontractors doing work in the United States will have to start using E-Verify. The E-Verify system, previously called “Basic Pilot,” is an automated system administered by the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) to confirm the employment authorization of employees working in the United States.
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November 14, 2008
Press Release - Public & Project Finance
Cozen O’Connor Member Suzanne Mayes Named 2008 Woman Of Distinction
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November 14, 2008
Press Release - Labor & Employment
Cozen O’Connor Member Sarah A. Kelly Lectures For American Employment Law Council
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November 14, 2008
Press Release
Amanda L. Nelson has joined Cozen O’Connor’s New York office as an associate in the General Litigation Department. Prior to joining the firm, she was an associate with Belkin, Burden, Wenig & Goldman LLP in New York. Nelson focuses her practice on general litigation matters, and also has extensive experience in commercial and residential real estate litigation, including complex zoning and regulatory issues and loft law matters. She is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.
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November 13, 2008
Press Release
Cozen O'Connor member Thomas G. Wilkinson recently presented two seminars on topical legal ethics issues. First, he spoke on ''Ethical Considerations for Township Solicitors'' for the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors in Hershey, Penn. Second, he discussed ''Confidentiality in the Insurance Defense Context'' for the Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel.
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November 12, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage
The Business of Climate Change - PowerPoint Presentation - Obama Energy/Climate Plan
Recent Energy Tax Credit Legislation
New Jersey Energy/Climate Plan
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
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November 11, 2008
Publication - Labor & Employment
An Obama Administration's Impact on Labor and Employment Issues - Labor and Employment Alert! -
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