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July 01, 2008
Publication - Employment Litigation, Labor & Employment
Business Groups Challenge Florida "Guns at Work" Law - Inside Counsel - A new state law that will allow Florida residents to keep firearms in their cars at work is being challenged by several employer groups. The law, which takes effect July 1, prohibits public and private employers from having policies prohibiting firearms in their parking lots. It allows employees with valid weapons permits to keep guns locked in their cars in employers’ parking lots.
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July 01, 2008
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) - Subrogation and Recovery Alert! - 4 pgs total. The U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is an intl. agreement that is applicable to contracts for the intl. sale of goods between parties whose places of business are in different countries. Two CISG issues that are relevant to subrogation actions against parties doing business in a foreign country: a requirement that the buyer provide timely notice of the nonconformity of the goods to the seller, and, the statute of limitations under CISG.
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July 01, 2008
Press Release - Intellectual Property
Cozen O’Connor Member Camille M. Miller Lectures At AIPLA Spring Meeting
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July 01, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage, Products Liability
Recipe for Disaster - BEST'S REVIEW - Propelled by globalization, outsourcing and offshoring by American companies, the global food network has morphed into a complex, complicated system - ripe for food contamination claims of epic proportions, with insurers bearing the ultimate financial burden.
A white paper released by the Cozen O'Connor law firm in March - published on the heels of the largest beef recall in U.S. history in February -
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July 01, 2008
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Summer 2008 - Subrogation and Recovery Observer -
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June 27, 2008
Press Release
Joseph Gerber Elected Chairman of Chubb Foundation
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June 27, 2008
Press Release
Cozen O'Connor Attorneys Make Media Appearances
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June 26, 2008
Press Release - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment
Cozen O'Connor and Select Firm Attorneys Recognized by Chambers USA 2008
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June 25, 2008
Press Release - Insurance
Cozen O’Connor Names Geoffrey D. Ferrer Managing Partner Of New York Offices
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June 25, 2008
Press Release
The law firm of Cozen O'Connor and member Thomas G. Wilkinson have been honored by the Friends of Farmworkers for their outstanding pro bono service. Tom was honored for his ''tireless pro bono service,'' including his role as lead counsel in the federal court challenge to the City of Hazleton's immigration ordinances. The firm was honored for ''its commitment to public service,'' demonstrated by their substantial support of those involved in enjoining the ordinances, including firm members Linda Kaiser Conley, Thomas B. Fiddler, Elena Park, Ilan Rosenberg and Doreen Trujillo. The awards were presented at the Friends of Farmworkers 2008 Reception, held at the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia.
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June 25, 2008
Publication - Labor & Employment
On June 10, 2008, the New York Court of Appeals issued a decision that is significant for the financial services industry, the real estate and insurance brokerage industries, and any other industry or employer that compensates its New York employees in whole or in part on a commission basis. Specifically, the Court of Appeals decided in Pachter v. Bernard Hodes Group, Inc. that New York Labor Law provisions governing the payment of wages and commissions
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June 23, 2008
Publication - Business, Health Care & Life Sciences - Health Care & Life Sciences
Supreme Court Weighs in on Scope of False Claims Act - Health Law Alert! - A recent, unanimous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court appears significantly to reduce the
potential liability under the False Claims Act for claims health care providers file with private Medicare and Medicaid managed care organizations, as opposed to with the Medicare and Medicaid fee-for-service programs. Allison Engine Co. v. United States ex rel. Sanders, 553 U.S.___ (No. 07-214, June 9, 2008).
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June 18, 2008
Press Release - Professional Liability
Cozen O'Connor member Thomas G. Wilkinson has been elected President of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI). The PBI is an educational arm of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the largest non-profit provider of continuing legal education in the state. It is a non-profit organization that aims to provide Pennsylvania lawyers with information that is timely, practical, cost effective and of the highest possible quality.
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June 16, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage, Products Liability
Global Losses From Tomatoes Likely Pricey - Best Week - The multibillion tomato industry in North America is in disarray as U S regulators struggle to determine the source of a Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak that has so far sickened
roughly 228 people across 23 states
The delay in finding the source has meant significant business disruption for U S tomato growers and distributors and to some extent their counterparts in Canada and Mexico whose produce are consumed in the United States
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June 11, 2008
Publication - Professional Liability
A Montgomery County jury vindicated Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll Monday in a breach of fiduciary duty suit brought against the firm by a man seeking between $17 million to $30 million in lost profits plus interest and punitive damages.
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June 10, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage, Products Liability
The ChemNutra Indictment: A Sign of Things to Come? - FoodProductDesign.com - In regulating our conduct, in everything from our daily lives to business activities, we assume that, unless accompanied by a culpable mental state, be it intentional, reckless or knowing, our actions should not be considered criminal. Based on this assumption, the shopper who leaves a store without paying for an item
that was mistakenly left in the cart is not guilty of a crime. Likewise, the innocent
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June 09, 2008
Press Release - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring
Cozen O’Connor Attorney Designated A 2008 Delaware And Pennsylvania Super Lawyer By Law & Politics
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June 08, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage
Heating up - Insurers push businesses and individuals to get greener - Rough Notes - Most people look at the insurance industry as a conservative business that changes very little and then only when forced to do so. But the history of the industry is quite different. It has often been in the forefront of efforts to promote safer workplaces, buildings, autos and so on. Of course, these efforts were not strictly eleemosynary; both insureds and insurers benefited from the improved risk profiles.
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June 06, 2008
Press Release - Family Law
Cozen O’Connor Attorney Jennifer A. Brandt Discusses Family Law Matters On CN8, TruTV And CN8 Headline News
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June 03, 2008
News - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
Special Report: Suing the Saudis - How Cozen took on a kingdom for 9/11 liability - Philadelphia Inquirer - On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Stephen Cozen huddled with expert witnesses
in a seventh-floor conference room of his Center City law firm preparing for what
promised to be a bare-knuckle trial over a string of soured movie deals.
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