http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Sonnenschein Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135150 New Mexico-based creditor Chisos Ltd. is objecting to Edge Petroleum Corp.’s prepackaged Chapter 11 plan and asset sale because it claims it would potentially subvert its preferential rights to oil and gas leases in New Mexico. http://www.law360.com/articles/135150 http://www.law360.com/articles/134423 A federal judge has rejected a bid for class certification by Allstate New Jersey Insurance Co. policyholders alleging the insurer engaged in improper estimating processes and underpaid claims between Jan. 1, 2000, and Dec. 31, 2004. http://www.law360.com/articles/134423 http://www.law360.com/articles/134541 The receiver for the estate of accused Ponzi schemer Robert Allen Stanford has lost a bid to keep hundreds of investor accounts frozen in an effort to reclaim payouts investors received before the alleged scheme was revealed. http://www.law360.com/articles/134541 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/133759 Travelers Property Casualty Insurance Co. and eight other insurers have settled a putative class action with homeowners who decried what they described as unfair pricing policies, in a deal that could also grant the plaintiffs attorneys' fees and expenses of up to $6.6 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/133759 http://www.law360.com/articles/133415 A federal judge has vacated an earlier ruling awarding a group of First American Title Insurance Co. policyholders summary judgment of liability on a breach of contract claim in a class action alleging the insurance company overcharged customers for residential title insurance policies. http://www.law360.com/articles/133415 http://www.law360.com/articles/131130 With health care and climate change legislation, a global recession, and the war in Afghanistan, a financial regulatory overhaul has been slower than some expected, but Congress is moving forward on a sweeping financial reform package, and observers say some segments could soon be signed by President Barack Obama. http://www.law360.com/articles/131130 http://www.law360.com/articles/132658 A bankruptcy judge agreed Thursday to let creditors choose between the reorganization plan crafted by debtors Young Broadcasting Inc., favored by senior lenders, and a competing plan by the unsecured creditors committee. http://www.law360.com/articles/132658 http://www.law360.com/articles/131735 Brown Rudnick LLP is beefing up its corporate practice with the addition of a former Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP partner in its New York office. http://www.law360.com/articles/131735 http://www.law360.com/articles/131323 A wary bankruptcy judge on Thursday preliminarily approved a disclosure statement in fraud-ridden hedge fund Bayou Group LLC's Chapter 11 case, going over the 85-page document with a fine-tooth comb and putting off challenges to a contemplated dual trusteeship and to attorneys' fees requests until a confirmation hearing. http://www.law360.com/articles/131323 http://www.law360.com/articles/131229 The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. has objected to Young Broadcasting Inc.'s Chapter 11 disclosure statement, claiming it doesn't tell creditors that Young may end up liable to the federal pension insurer for over $6.5 million if it terminates its employee pension plan. http://www.law360.com/articles/131229 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/129402 Baker & Hostetler LLP has continued the expansion of its New York office, announcing the addition Tuesday of four securities litigators: partners Mark A. Kornfeld, Deborah H. Renner and Gonzalo S. Zeballos, and counsel Timothy Pfeifer. http://www.law360.com/articles/129402 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/129101 The U.S. Department of Energy's long-awaited Financial Institution Partnership Program is an attempt to restart the lending markets for conventional renewable energy technologies by providing partial loan guarantees for commercially accepted renewable energy systems, say Erik Klingenberg, Thomas Jensen, Jeffrey Fort, Vickie Strohmeyer, Mike Cunningham and Kelly Lugar of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/129101 http://www.law360.com/articles/128775 The prospect of Security Insurance Co. of Hartford and Lubrizol Corp. settling their feud over coverage for cleanup costs at a Texas Superfund site without court intervention has grown dim, with the insurer seeking to bring the resolution of the suit before a magistrate judge and the chemical company asking the court to issue a judgment in its favor. http://www.law360.com/articles/128775 http://www.law360.com/articles/128821 Starent Networks Corp. will pay $3.5 million to settle patent litigation claims leveled against the mobile Internet network infrastructure company by UTStarcom Inc., the two companies announced. http://www.law360.com/articles/128821 http://www.law360.com/articles/128519 Foley & Lardner LLP is reportedly laying off 39 of its 988 attorneys, after having added eight offices and hundreds of lawyers over the last five years. http://www.law360.com/articles/128519 http://www.law360.com/articles/128332 K&L Gates LLP has scooped up bankruptcy, insolvency and creditors’ rights expert Michael B. Lubic, who joins the firm as a partner in its bankruptcy and insolvency practice. http://www.law360.com/articles/128332