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Cofounder Patrick J. O'Connor Receives Two Honorary Degrees

Patrick was selected to receive an honorary degree from Temple University, which conferred Thursday, May 16. On May 17, he also received an honorary degree from Villanova University School of Law.MORE

Cozen O’Connor’s Charitable Foundation Recognized for Its Charitable Contributions

The Cozen O’Connor Foundation’s support of local, national and nonprofit organizations was recognized for its generosity by the Philadelphia Business Journal. Among the other corporations receiving corporate philanthropy awards were Wal-Mart, Comcast and US Airways. MORE

Cozen O’Connor Expands with the Addition of Corporate, Real Estate Attorneys

Two attorneys have joined the Philadelphia office of Cozen O'Connor: Ira C. Gubernick, formerly of Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg, joins the firm as a partner in the corporate practice, and Richard S. Roisman, formerly with McCarter & English, joins as a partner in the real estate practice.MORE

Cozen O'Connor Receives CEO Cancer Gold Standard Accreditation

The accreditation is awarded by the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, which was founded in 2001 when former President George H.W. Bush challenged a group of executives to "do something bold and venturesome about cancer within your own corporate families."MORE

Cozen O’Connor Team Secures Dismissal of Contract Claims Against Concert Promoter Client

Bob Hayes, Jordan Fox, and Rebecca Brodey were successful in persuading the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to dismiss Grammy nominated rapper Wiz Khalifa’s claim that our concert promoter client breached a promotional agreement by cancelling a Washington area concert. MORE

Tom Gallagher Quoted in Wall Street Journal on Ending REIT Tax Exemption

Gallagher notes, “It would be a major issue. You’ve got an entire industry … predicated on the idea that you will not have any level of tax imposed on those entities.”MORE

From Our Blogs

Claims Handling Reminders for Oklahoma Storm Losses

5/22/2013 8:02:18 PM +00:00

C. Wesley Vines, Admitted to Practice in OK since 1983 and TX since 1990 In light of the recent devastating storms in Oklahoma, it is worth bearing in mind: (1) Oklahoma’s basic rules for interpreting insurance policies, including the “reasonable...
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Infrastructure Alert - May 21, 2013

5/21/2013 1:50:39 PM -05:00

On May 17, President Obama issued a presidential memorandum to aid in streamline permitting processes for infrastructure projects. The memorandum creates a steering committee whose goal is to cut project completion times in half. Among th...
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Senate Bill 814 Proposes Sweeping and Retroactive Changes to Environmental Claims Handling in Oregon

5/21/2013 5:42:26 PM +00:00

On March 13, 2013, the Oregon legislature introduced Senate Bill 814 to create sweeping reforms on environmental claims handling regulations and available remedies for insureds facing liability for cleanup of contaminated property located in the...
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Employee Working For You? You Say "No", LinkedIn Says "Yes"

5/20/2013 2:10:51 PM -05:00

Those loyal readers of this blog know that the focus tends to be on what your company can and cannot do regarding social media use by potential employees (i.e., applicants) or current employees. But there is a third category of employees that...
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Fifth Amendment Fundamentals - Taking the Nickel

5/20/2013 1:11:00 PM -05:00

By Hayes Hunt and Jonathan R. Cavalier Most in-house lawyers, if they're fortunate, haven't bumped up against the Fifth Amendment and its related issues since the bar exam. After all, the so-called "nickel" typically arises solely in the criminal...
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Recovering an Insured's Deductible - Texas

5/17/2013 3:24:20 PM -05:00

In a recent case out of the Seventh Court of Appeals of Texas, the court considered whether a waiver of subrogation provision waived an insurer’s claim for its insured’s uninsured losses or deductible. Am. Zurich Ins. Co. v. Barker...
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Health Care Reform Implementation Update - May 15, 2013

5/15/2013 1:10:52 PM -05:00

Last week the Senate agreed to vote on Marilyn Tavenner’s nomination to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced an initiative that will give consume...
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Estée Lauder v. OneBeacon Insurance Group – Expanding the Scope of Discovery in Bad Faith Cases

5/15/2013 3:20:34 PM +00:00

On April 15, 2013, a New York trial court granted the insured’s request for the production of certain claims file material and previously sealed discovery in Estée Lauder Inc. v. OneBeacon Insurance Group LLC et al., index number 602379/2005,...
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A Trial Lawyer's Stutter and the "Give and Take" of Success

5/14/2013 2:25:00 PM -05:00

By David Walton About a year or so ago, around the same time that the movie The King's Speech won the Academy Award, I wrote a piece for From The Sidebar regarding an experience I had at trial regarding my own stuttering issue. My article...
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Ewing: Will My Construction Defect Claim Be Covered In Texas

5/7/2013 3:20:23 PM -05:00

If you are a subrogation professional who handles construction defect claims in Texas, you may have heard references to the case of Ewing Construction Company v. Amerisure Insurance Company, 684 F.3d 512 (5th Cir. 2012). In Ewing, the Fifth...
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