http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: McElroy Deutsch Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/134090 The insurers of Dish Network Corp. will not have to hand over a wide range of documents relating to their administration of policy contracts, after a federal judge found that the satellite provider had not met its burden to compel expanded discovery into the insurers' obligations to defend an underlying patent dispute over Dish's in-house telephone system. http://www.law360.com/articles/134090 http://www.law360.com/articles/130895 Dish Network Corp. has asked a judge to force its insurers to respond to nearly 20 discovery requests aimed at parsing policy language to ascertain whether they have a duty to defend it in an underlying patent dispute over the satellite provider's in-house telephone system. http://www.law360.com/articles/130895 http://www.law360.com/articles/130369 Arguing that its coverage does not extend to patent claims, Travelers Indemnity Co. of Illinois has joined a group of insurers seeking to deflect a Dish Network Corp. suit over their duty to defend the satellite provider against patent infringement claims brought by billionaire inventor Ronald A. Katz over a Dish telephone system. http://www.law360.com/articles/130369 http://www.law360.com/articles/129271 The Credit Union of Texas has fired back in Lyndon Property Insurance Co.'s suit for indemnification from over $6 million in claims on insurance policies covering subprime auto loans, claiming the insurer actually owes CUT over $12.5 million in first-party insurance benefits. http://www.law360.com/articles/129271 http://www.law360.com/articles/129343 Claiming that its policy does not cover patent claims, National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. is seeking summary judgment in a spat with Dish Network Corp. over coverage for billionaire inventor Ronald A. Katz's suit accusing Dish of infringing patents for telephone systems. http://www.law360.com/articles/129343 http://www.law360.com/articles/125458 Former World Boxing Association light heavyweight champion Virgil "Quicksilver" Hill has hit Don King Productions Inc. with a suit accusing the company of failing to live up to its obligations under a 2003 agreement to schedule six boxing matches for Hill, and pay the boxer at least $50,000 per fight. http://www.law360.com/articles/125458 http://www.law360.com/articles/123937 Trinity Universal Insurance Co. of Kansas Inc. has agreed to settle with some two dozen insurers — including American International Group Inc. unit American International Specialty Lines Insurance Co. and Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. — over defense costs incurred by Trinity in an underlying suit accusing contractor D.R. Horton Inc. of botching a construction project. http://www.law360.com/articles/123937 http://www.law360.com/articles/121266 Former Cozen O’Connor partner Joseph Bermudez has joined insurance specialty firm Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst LLC, growing a crisis management practice that counsels insurers on spur-of-the-moment issues ranging from product recalls to weather disasters. http://www.law360.com/articles/121266 http://www.law360.com/articles/111957 A former shipping executive who alleges that Duane Morris LLP failed to explain to him the implications of stock restrictions in a settlement the firm negotiated for him can proceed with a malpractice suit, a New Jersey appeals court has decided. http://www.law360.com/articles/111957 http://www.law360.com/articles/109310 A federal judge has rejected a bid by Skype Technologies SA and its parent company eBay Inc. to stay a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Net2Phone Inc. over Voice Over Internet Protocol online communications technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/109310 http://www.law360.com/articles/100045 After three weeks at trial in a New Jersey court, Lowenstein Sandler PC has reached a deal with now-defunct Ravin Sarasohn Cook Baumgarten Fisch & Rosen PC in a $42 million suit alleging that Lowenstein poached 15 attorneys from Ravin Sarasohn in 2000. http://www.law360.com/articles/100045 http://www.law360.com/articles/98498 Merck & Co.'s pharmacy benefits management subsidiary has been dropped from multidistrict securities litigation filed under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act over the drugmaker's shelved painkiller Vioxx. http://www.law360.com/articles/98498 http://www.law360.com/articles/96792 Magazine wholesaler Source Interlink Distribution LLC has reached a settlement with magazine distributors and publishers Curtis Circulation Co., Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. Inc. and Kable Distribution Services Inc. in an antitrust suit alleging they and other publishers and distributors tried to squeeze Source Interlink out of the magazine retail market. http://www.law360.com/articles/96792 http://www.law360.com/articles/96529 Jury selection has begun in a New Jersey case against Lowenstein Sandler PC that aims to test the limits of so-called partner poaching and is being closely watched by law firms around the country. http://www.law360.com/articles/96529 http://www.law360.com/articles/91448 Skype Technologies SA has asked a federal court to stay a complex patent infringement lawsuit filed by Net2Phone Inc. over Voice Over Internet Protocol online communications technology while the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office re-evaluates the validity of the Net2Phone patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/91448 http://www.law360.com/articles/84308 A federal appeals court has rejected a real estate management company's challenge to the dismissal of malpractice claims against Waters McPherson McNeill PC, Budd Larner Gross Rosenbaum Greenberg & Sade PC and McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP over the handling of an environmental case against PPG Industries Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/84308 http://www.law360.com/articles/82762 Morgan Lewis, Hinshaw & Culbertson and Jackson Lewis top the list of busiest ERISA practices, ranked by number of cases for which the firms were retained as counsel over a recent one-year period, according to the 2009 Law360 Litigation Almanac. http://www.law360.com/articles/82762 http://www.law360.com/articles/81573 A federal court has granted Johnson & Johnson summary judgment in a proposed collective action alleging that the company misclassified sales representatives as exempt from overtime pay in order to avoid fully compensating them for all the time they worked. http://www.law360.com/articles/81573 http://www.law360.com/articles/80575 A federal judge has agreed to stay parts of discovery and bifurcate the trial in a patent infringement suit over hypertension drug Cardizem, weeks after defendant Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. introduced a slew of antitrust and patent misuse counterclaims into the suit. http://www.law360.com/articles/80575 http://www.law360.com/articles/79332 A judge has refused a request by a former Salomon Smith Barney Inc. stockbroker to vacate an arbitration ruling that dismissed his claims of wrongful termination against the firm, dashing the finance worker's hopes of reviving his complaint. http://www.law360.com/articles/79332