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June 21, 2011
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Securities Plaintiffs Win Two Out of Three at Supreme Court - The Legal Intelligencer - The U.S. Supreme Court issued three decisions in securities fraud cases this term. Plaintiffs' lawyers scored
victories in the first two cases.
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June 20, 2011
Publication - Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Labor & Employment
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, enacted March 23, 2010, revises the definition of medical expenses as it relates to over-the-counter drugs for employer-provided accident and health plans, including health flexible spending arrangements (FSAs) and health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), as well as the definition of qualified medical expenses for Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Archer Medical Savings Accounts (Archer MSAs).
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June 16, 2011
Press Release - Antitrust & Competition, Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Real Estate, Real Estate Litigation, Transportation & Trade, White Collar Defense & Investigations, Zoning, Land Use & Development - Insurance
Chambers USA has recognized 27 Cozen O’Connor lawyers as leaders in their fields.
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June 13, 2011
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Supreme Court Decision Limits Scope of Private Securities-Fraud Actions - Securities Offerings and Regulation Alert! - This morning, the Supreme Court issued an important decision limiting the scope of private securities-fraud actions. The decision in Janus Capital Group, Inc., et al. v. First Derivative Traders (No. 09-525) will provide powerful protection to third-parties who assist issuers in the preparation of prospectuses and other public statements.
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June 10, 2011
News - Family Law
Cozen O’Connor Member Discusses Current Events on National News Networks
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June 10, 2011
News
Cozen O’Connor Ranked Second Healthiest Employer in Philadelphia Region
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June 09, 2011
Publication - Insurance Coverage, Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
CPSC Launches Saferproducts.gov Database on Consumer Product Incident Reports - Subrogation and Recovery Alert! - Searching for other similar product failures? Saferproducts.gov database recently launched by the Consumer Product Safety Commission may offer some needed help. The database provides consumer reports on product failures/complaints.
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June 06, 2011
News - Intellectual Property
Cozen O'Connor Intellectual Property Team in top 20 in the U.S. for trademark filings in 2010
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June 01, 2011
Publication - Corporate, Real Estate
Donald Nanney and Duane Montgomery discuss this topic in Korek Land Company, Inc's Commentaries & Bulletins.
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June 01, 2011
Publication - Real Estate Litigation - Real Estate & Construction
Energy Alchemy: Turning Building Energy Use into a Profit Center - Real Estate Alert! - This Alert describes various strategies that a building owner or manager might employ to reduce energy costs or even transform them into building revenues. Co-Author Shapiro is both an attorney and a LEED Accredited Professional, and maintains a blog on green building legal issues at www.greenbuildinglawblog.com.
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June 01, 2011
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Despite the best training, equipment, and preparation, it is an inevitable consequence of working in the industry that damages will happen. When they do, and when they cannot be resolved without litigation, the prospect of giving a deposition can strike fear into even the most experienced witness.
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May 31, 2011
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
Event Data Recorders - Looking into Pandora's Subrogation Box - Subrogation and Recovery Alert! - In an ideal world, subrogation claims arising from product failures are investigated immediately after the loss takes place. However, a number of factors may prevent this from taking place. Event Data Recorders (EDR's) now are being utilized in a number of products, including cars, building alarm systems, and home appliances, serving to record important information regarding the operational history and failure mode of the product.
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May 31, 2011
Publication - Business, Tax
Class Action Stayed - Tax Alert! - The Pennsylvania Superior Court held that a trial court correctly ruled that a purported class action for the refund of Sales and Use Tax must be decided in the first instance by the Department of Revenue. It should have stayed the action until the Department of Revenue acted on the refund claim. Stoloff v. Neiman Marcus Group, Inc., No. 2674 EDA 2009 (Pa. Super. May 23, 2011).
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May 26, 2011
News - Corporate
Cozen O’Connor Ranked Third Overall in U.S. in Reactions Legal Survey 2011
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May 24, 2011
Press Release - Labor & Employment, Utility & Energy
14-Lawyer Team Led by A. Martin Wickliff, Jr. & Alton J. Hall, Jr. Join Cozen O’Connor in Houston - Additions Enhance Firm’s Labor and Employment and Energy Law Practices
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May 24, 2011
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Global-Warming Litigation Gets Frosty Reception at the Supreme Court - The Legal Intelligencer - It is often difficult to predict the outcome of Supreme Court cases. This is not because the individual justices are particularly fickle or inscrutable. The reason is quite simple: The cases that make it all the way to the Supreme Court are hard. The court does not usually intervene in a dispute unless at least two lower courts, each composed of smart jurists, answered the same legal question differently.
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May 23, 2011
Publication - Insurance Coverage - Insurance
South Carolina and Hawai’i have now joined Colorado and Arkansas as two of four states that have passed legislation aimed at broadening the definition of ''occurrence'' under commercial general liability (CGL) policies as it relates to construction defect claims.
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May 23, 2011
News - Family Law
Cozen O’Connor Member on Fox News’ Happening Now
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May 23, 2011
News
Stephen A. Cozen Named the 2011 Pillar of Achievement Recipient
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May 23, 2011
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Pillar of Achievement Award - Jewish Sports Hall of Fame - Steve Cozen grew up with sports. One might say he was born with sports in his blood, for his father was Sam Cozen, the venerable coach at Overbrook High School and Drexel University. Steve played football, baseball and basketball in high school, and baseball and basketball at the University of Pennsylvania, where he later went to law school. Steve then founded a law firm that under his leadership grew from four lawyers in 1970 ...
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