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mHealth Stakeholders: Bullet List of Legal Considerations

by Duane Morris LLP on 5/22/2012

You are a device maker, an app or software developer, a potential investor, a healthcare provider, a healthcare payor or an insurer and you see opportunities in mobile health (mHealth). You have an idea for a revolutionary...more

Duty to Defend a “Looney” Copyright Claim

by Sedgwick LLP on 5/17/2012

Here’s a recent case we thought our readers would be interested in that was posted in our May 2012 Media Law Bulletin. When Looney Ricks Kiss Architects, Inc. (Looney) created an architectural design known as the Island...more

'Looney' Copyright Claim Covered: Fifth Circuit Holds Breach of Contract Exclusion Doesn't Bar Liability Insurance Coverage

by Sedgwick LLP on 5/16/2012

When Looney Ricks Kiss Architects, Inc. (Looney) created an architectural design known as the Island Park Apartments in 1996, it probably wasn't thinking of insurance coverage law. But, it appears likely that Looney's...more

Do Your Vendors Have the Right Insurance to Pay for the Damages They May Cause to Your Business?

by Pierce Atwood LLP on 5/14/2012

When you enter into a contract with a vendor, you generally impose insurance requirements on the vendor and an indemnification obligation. But consider whether your current contracts have insurance requirements that would...more

IP Liability Insurance: Do You Have the Protection You Think You Have?

by Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC on 5/9/2012

Given the risks and costs of intellectual property (IP) infringement claims (even when your company isn’t found liable), most companies ideally want coverage of perceived infringement of the products they sell or the services...more

2nd Circuit Holds No Duty to Defend Intellectual Property Claim

by Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP on 4/19/2012

In its recent decision titled Feldman Law Group v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 7787 (2d Cir. Apr. 18, 2012), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, applying Pennsylvania law, had occasion...more

Negotiating the New World of Cyber Insurance

by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 3/30/2012

Businesses today have complex, carefully-designed insurance plans to protect against physical property loss, environmental damage, defective products and other risks. Much of a company's value, though, is now tied up in its...more

Evaluating Wind Turbine Patent Infringement Risk Exposure

by Philip Totaro on 3/17/2012

Major international corporations are increasingly becoming the targets of IP infringement suits. This has driven the need for indemnification of patent infringement liability in component/product supply agreements,...more

McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Completes Merger with Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP

by McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP on 3/6/2012

McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP announced today that it has completed its merger with California-based Luce Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP (Luce Forward). The combined firm will continue to be known as McKenna Long & Aldridge...more

Should You Take Lipitor or a New Generic? Lots of Questions as a Big Drug Loses Its Patent

by Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 1/23/2012

When patents expire on profitable brand-name prescription drugs, patients and their insurance companies usually both catch a break on the price as generic manufacturers move in with cheaper versions of the same drug. That's...more

You're Getting Sued for What? An E&O Odyssey (Pt 5)

by Heenan Blaikie LLP on 1/11/2012

This post is part of an occasional series highlighting the type of risks which film and TV producers face and which are supposed to be covered by E&O insurance, and which aims to demonstrate that what might seem to a producer...more

You're Getting Sued for What? An E&O Odyssey (Pt 4)

by Heenan Blaikie LLP on 12/27/2011

This post is part of an occasional series highlighting the type of risks which film and TV producers face and which are supposed to be covered by E&O insurance, and which aims to demonstrate that what might seem to a producer...more

Quinn Emanuel Business Litigation Report - October 2011

by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP on 11/10/2011

In This Isssue: Firm News: Quinn Emanuel Launches Moscow Office High-Profile Litigator Andrew Schapiro Joins Quinn Emanuel Main Article: China Implements New Laws in Foreign-Related Products Liability...more

Intellectual Property Alert: Federal Appeals Court Requires Insurers to Defend Patent Infringement Suit Under Standard Commercial...

by Foley Hoag LLP on 10/25/2011

Insurance companies consistently assert that Commercial General Liability (“CGL”) insurance, routinely purchased by most businesses, provides no coverage for patent infringement lawsuits. An October 17, 2011 decision of a...more

Tenth Circuit Finds Potential Insurance Coverage for Patent Infringement Claims Under "Advertising Injury" Provisions

by Morgan Lewis on 10/20/2011

On October 17, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, applying Colorado law, reversed a district court decision and held that a patent infringement claim may constitute an "advertising injury," thereby triggering,...more

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