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January 28, 2013
News - Business
Michael will be honored along with Jeffrey Brown, founder, president & CEO of Brown's Super Stores, and renowned NFL Head Coach Dick Vermeil.
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January 28, 2013
Publication - Health Care & Life Sciences - Health Care & Life Sciences
Under the Affordable Care Act, a number of significant tax increases go into effect in 2013 and other tax provisions will be implemented during the next several years.
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January 28, 2013
Publication - Labor & Employment, Labor Relations & Disputes
On Friday, January 25, 2013, in Noel Canning v. NLRB, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals held that President Barack Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) were constitutionally invalid, throwing into question the enforceability of all NLRB decisions issued by the Board since January 2012. The petitioner in the case argued that a February 8, 2012 NLRB order was invalid because three members of the five-member Board (Sharon Block, Terence F. Flynn and Richard F. Griffin) were improperly appointed as recess appointments.
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January 28, 2013
News - Employment Litigation, Labor & Employment
Michael Schmidt, a member of Cozen O'Connor's Labor & Employment Department, discusses leave-related issues and medical conditions in an article titled ''Medical Information Not Confidential If Disclosed in Response to General Inquiry.''
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January 28, 2013
Publication - Insurance Coverage - Insurance
Yearly, many oil pipelines fail, spill crude oil, and cause significant health and environmental damage all across the continental United States, leading to hefty financial implications for the oil companies, landowners, government, and insurers.
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January 25, 2013
Publication - Labor & Employment
The devastating shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., beg the question: “What should employers do to protect the workplace?”
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January 25, 2013
News - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
Marsha Cohen, executive director of The Homeless Advocacy Project recently announced that Joe Rich has been appointed to the HAP 2013 Advisory Board. With a legal staff of 13 and a corps of 400 volunteer lawyers, paralegals, and law students, HAP engages in direct outreach to homeless individuals in need of legal services. HAP collaborates with shelter providers, homeless advocates, community service providers and the legal community to provide homeless clients with legal representation and to connect them with other social services.
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January 24, 2013
Publication - Insurance Coverage, Transportation & Trade - Insurance
On January 15, 2013, the Supreme Court, in a majority decision with two justices dissenting, ruled that a so-called “floating home” which did not have self-propulsion and essentially consisted of a house-like plywood structure with French doors floating on an empty bilge space, did not come within the definition of a vessel under 1 U.S.C. § 3 and therefore was not subject to maritime law. Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, docket 11-626, 568 US ___ (1/15/2013).
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January 23, 2013
News - Employment Litigation, Labor & Employment
Michael Schmidt, a member in the firm’s Labor & Employment group, was quoted in an article published in the Human Resource Executive Online titled “Breaking Down the EEOC's Plan.”
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January 23, 2013
Publication - Labor & Employment, Real Estate, Real Estate Litigation
This whitepaper provides an overview of construction related issues potentially raised by storm damage, including delay claims, areas of responsibility of municipalities and design professionals, environmental concerns and other topical matters.
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January 23, 2013
Publication - Business
On January 2, 2013, President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 (H.R. 4013) (NDAA 2013). The Act contains several new Iran sanctions that target Iran’s energy, shipbuilding and shipping sectors, including its ports. The Act also imposes new obligations on insurers and underwriters providing services to those industries.
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January 23, 2013
Publication
By now, the concept of Upjohn warnings should be familiar to any counsel, whether in-house or external, who represents a corporation's interests in an internal investigation.
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January 22, 2013
News
In a recent survey conducted by The American Lawyer, Cozen O’Connor ranked in the top five AmLaw 100 firms for women in leadership positions. The survey, conducted for 2012, sought to determine how many female partners had, “advanced to the highest ranks of law firm hierarchies.”
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January 18, 2013
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
When can the Federal Government be pursued for a flood damage subrogation claim? Are one-off floods considered a taking of property requiring compensation under the 5th Amendment, or are repetitive flooding events required? Are state laws better avenues to evaluate flood claims?
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January 17, 2013
Publication - Labor & Employment
What will you do when the CEO calls tomorrow morning and says, ''I just got a report that two of our employees are carrying loaded guns at work, or they have them in their cars in the employee parking lot?''
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January 17, 2013
News - Products Liability
In an article titled, ''Cheat Sheet: A Guide to Navigating Two New Federal Consumer Safety Measures,'' Jim Heller, chair of Cozen O'Connor's Product Liability Practice Group, advises companies on combating negative consumer reports, and complying with the regulatory requirements of the CPSIA.
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January 17, 2013
News - Family Law
Jennifer Brandt, a member of the firm’s Philadelphia office and Family Law Practice, was a guest on Money with Melissa Francis on January 17, 2013 on the Fox Business network.
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January 16, 2013
Publication - Insurance Coverage, Professional Liability Insurance Coverage - Insurance
In Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Greenberg, Formato & Eininger, LLP v. Underwriters of Lloyds, London, no. CV11-665, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1204 (E.D. N.Y. January 2, 2013), the District Court for the Eastern District of New York upheld a legal liability insurer’s denial of coverage to a law firm. The court agreed with the insurer that although two complaints filed against the law firm and its partners alleged professional malpractice, the policy’s business pursuit exclusion and business enterprise exclusion applied.
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January 14, 2013
Publication - Bad Faith, Insurance Coverage - Insurance
In what may be the continuation of a trend toward the erosion of the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine in bad faith litigation, another court has held that an insurer's communications with defense counsel retained for the insured in an underlying liability suit are discoverable and not subject to the attorney-client privilege or work product doctrine in a subsequent third-party bad faith lawsuit, under Georgia law.
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January 14, 2013
Press Release
Philip Kircher, a member of Cozen O’Connor’s Philadelphia office, was named to the board of the Pennsylvania SPCA, the commonwealth’s largest animal welfare organization.
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