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May 01, 2008
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The Sheriff's Trail - Risk & Insurance -
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April 30, 2008
Press Release
Two Cozen O’Connor members recently participated in the Mealey’s Food and Product Recall Business Strategies Conference, held in Las Vegas.
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April 28, 2008
Press Release
Cozen O’Connor has announced that 17 of its associates have been named members of the firm. ''We are extremely proud to welcome these highly qualified attorneys into membership in the firm,'' said Thomas A. Decker, president and chief executive officer of Cozen O'Connor, ''Their individual and combined contributions reflect the talent and strength of our firm.''
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April 22, 2008
Press Release - Utility & Energy - Climate Change
Cozen O’Connor to Present Climate Change Seminar
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April 15, 2008
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Eliminating the Weakest Links - Risk & Insurance -
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April 15, 2008
Publication - Insurance Corporate & Regulatory, Insurance Coverage
U.S. Treasury Department Calls For Overhaul of Insurance Regulation - Insurance Corporate & Regulatory Alert! - The U.S. Treasury Department’s Blueprint for a Stronger Regulatory Structure (the “Blueprint”), released on March 31, 2008, includes many recommendations for changes to the regulation of financial services, including sweeping recommendations calling for the federal regulation of insurance.
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April 14, 2008
Press Release - Appellate, Professional Liability
Cozen O’Connor Member H. Robert Fiebach Lectures For 2008 Legal Malpractice and Risk Management Conference
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April 08, 2008
Press Release - Labor & Employment
Cozen O’Connor member Aaron Krauss recently lectured for the Chilean and American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia. Krauss spoke on product liability in the food industry, and ways to design contracts to address which company or supplier bears liability if contamination is discovered.
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April 08, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage
Arizona Appellate Court Precludes Insurer From Denying Coverage Because Of Delayed Reservation Of Rights - Insurance Coverage Alert! - An Arizona appellate court recently refused to apply the “your work” exclusion
where an insurer delayed 18 months in reserving its right to deny coverage. Pueblo
Santa Fe Townhomes Owners' Association Inc. v. Transcontinental Insurance Co.
and Transportation Insurance Co., 2008 WL714285, No. 1 CA-CV 07-0215 (Ariz.
App. March 13, 2008).
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April 08, 2008
Press Release
Cozen O’Connor has announced that 61 attorneys and 8 paralegals have been named to the firm’s 2007 Pro Bono Honor Roll.
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April 08, 2008
Press Release - White Collar Defense & Investigations
Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Designated 2008 Washington, D.C., Super Lawyers by Law & Politics
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April 07, 2008
Press Release - Intellectual Property, Trademark & Copyright
Cozen O’Connor Member Scott B. Schwartz Served as Adjunct Professor for Drexel University
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April 07, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage
Colorado Supreme Court Leaves Door Open for Enforcement of Pretrial Stipulated Judgments against Liability Insurers; Court also Reaffirms that Prejudgment Interest Awarded for Personal Injury Claims Reduces Limits, and is not a Supplementary Payment - Insurance Coverage Alert! - On March 24, 2008, the Colorado Supreme Court left the door open for plaintiffs and insured-defendants to enter into pretrial stipulated judgments, and then to enforce those stipulated judgments against the insured-defendant’s liability insurer. Historically, Colorado
Courts of Appeals have refused to enforce pretrial stipulated judgments against insurers
because of concerns that such judgments may not
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April 07, 2008
Press Release
Cozen O’Connor Chairman Stephen A. Cozen Discusses Judaism’s Past And Future In The Jewish Exponent
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April 03, 2008
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
Reality Cheque: Bank Liability for Fraudulent Bills of Exchange - Canadian Subrogation Alert! - 5 pgs total. In Canada, the liability of banks that act on forged cheques is governed by a mix of the common law and the federal Bills of Exchange Act. This article discusses the legal reasons for placing liability on banks in these cases, and considers some common defences that the subrogation professional may encounter when pursuing this avenue of recovery.
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April 01, 2008
Publication - Construction Law, Electronic Discovery & Practice Advisory Services - Real Estate & Construction
The Electronic Paper Chase: What You Don’t Save Can Hurt You - Constructor - Over the past decade, an increasing amount of business is being conducted electronically, much of it by e-mail. It's estimated that there are more than one billion business e -mails created in the U.S. each day. Less than 20% of these are ever printed, and 95% or more of all new
documents are stored electronically. Some formal structure was needed to govern this volume of data within the litigation context.
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April 01, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage
The Need For Transparency Between the Tort System and Section 524(g) Asbestos Trusts - Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice - Since 2000, dozens of companies have sought to use the trust provisions of §524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code to globally resolve their
asbestos liabilities.1 At this point, the litigation has forced over 85 employers into bankruptcy,2 “including nearly all major manufacturers of asbestos-containing products”3—the companies that historically were considered to be the most culpable by reason of the types of products that they sold
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April 01, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage
New Approach to Policy Interpretation - The Insurance Coverage Law Bulletin - Once upon a time, the relationship between insurer and insured was one of contract and was governed by the terms and conditions of the policy. Even after common law modifications
of this common law relationship and legislative regulation of the parties’ consensual relationship, it still is fundamentally based on agreement of the parties.
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April 01, 2008
Press Release - Aviation, Aviation Litigation
Cozen O’Connor Member Evan Caplan Honored by Legal Clinic for the Disabled
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April 01, 2008
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I’ve been an environmental lawyer since 1990. I graduated from George Washington University School of Law that year and accepted an honors position at the EPA, where I worked in the enforcement program until 1995. Since that time I’ve been in private practice working on a variety of different environmental law matters, including environmental litigation, cleanup obligations, compliance counseling with
respect to environmental regulatory requirements and, most recently, climate
change counseling, which involves helping companies position themselves in the
rapidly evolving climate change legal regime and address the risks and opportunities
presented by climate change.
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