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December 02, 2013
With victories including defeating a group of insurers’ bid to avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in asbestos coverage and convincing a judge that some carriers had to cover damages in privacy litigation, Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP’s Robin Cohen has secured her spot on Law360’s list of Insurance MVPs.
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November 27, 2013
Securing a landmark appeals court victory that will likely save her client hundreds of millions of dollars and established an important standard for the insurance industry, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Jane M. Byrne earned herself a place among Law360's 2013 Insurance MVPs.
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November 26, 2013
Shernoff Bidart Echeverria Bentley LLP's Michael Bidart has been MGA Entertainment Inc.'s go-to attorney as MGA squares off with insurers on defense costs for an epic battle with Mattel Inc. over rights to the popular Bratz doll line, making Bidart one of Law360's Insurance MVPs for 2013.
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November 08, 2013
Beginning this week, Law360 will profile the elite law firm partners whose exemplary work on critical litigation, mammoth deals and first-of-their-kind global matters earned them a spot on this year's list of MVP award winners.
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December 12, 2012
In 2012, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's Mary Kay Vyskocil added a number of major victories to her already impressive resume, successfully fending off appellate challenges to judgments in high-stakes insurance and reinsurance disputes and earning a spot as one of Law's Insurance MVPs.
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December 11, 2012
O'Melveny & Myers LLP's Tancred Schiavoni persuaded the Ninth Circuit to allow insurers to challenge bankruptcy plans made without their input that subject them to huge potential losses, one of several accomplishments that earned him a spot as one of Law360's Insurance MVPs.
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December 10, 2012
Latham & Watkins LLP's Brook Roberts walloped an attempt by insurers to drastically restrict coverage for Fluor Corp.'s long-tail asbestos claims in a case of first impression that fellow California policyholder attorneys are already citing, landing him a spot among Law360's 2012 Insurance MVPs.
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December 07, 2012
Anderson Kill & Olick PC's Robert M. Horkovich helped policyholders secure significant insurance victories in a landmark California Supreme Court decision regarding the Stringfellow Acid Pits Superfund cleanup project and in a former Coca-Cola Co. unit's asbestos coverage fight, making him one of this year's Law360 Insurance MVPs.
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November 30, 2012
Over the next several weeks, Law360 will profile the winners of this year's MVP awards honoring attorneys whose achievements in major litigation or transactions have set a new standard for accomplishment in corporate law.
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December 12, 2011
William Skinner of Covington & Burling LLP helped Chiquita Brands International Inc. secure a ruling that its insurer must cover the cost of defending suits alleging that the company is liable for thousands of killings by Colombian extremists, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Insurance MVPs.
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December 09, 2011
James R. Murray, deputy leader of Dickstein Shapiro LLP's insurance coverage group, helped secure the largest ever single-insurer payment in a clergy sex abuse case this year, earning him a spot among Law360's Insurance MVPs.
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December 08, 2011
While working to obtain insurance coverage for the costs that BP PLC incurred from the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill and that United HealthCare Corp. spent to resolve a $350 million consumer class action, David Goodwin of Covington & Burling LLP was also helping Atlantic Richfield Co. finalize a multimillion-dollar recovery stemming from a more than decade-old accident, earning him a place among Law360's Insurance MVPs.