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A federal district court judge from the Central District of California recently granted a motion to compel arbitration filed by the firm’s client, First Mercury Insurance Co., in Rodriquez v. Southern California Pizza Corp. Mark Cohen represented the insurer, along with local California counsel.

Brian McDonough was appointed as a member of the Steering Committee for the New England Chapter of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS).

The Defense Research Institute has published the Third Edition of its Bad Faith Compendium, a 50 state survey of bad faith law. Mark Cohen served as a regional editor (New England, Canada).

Mark Cohen spoke on November 19, 2010 at the Defense Research Institute’s Insurance Coverage and Practice Symposium in New York City about Emerging Issues Involving Employment Practices Insurance.

Brian McDonough obtained a summary judgment from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissing claims arising from insured’s alleged misrepresentation of product ingredients under general liability policy’s advertising injury coverage.

Mark Cohen was a panelist on “How to Pick a Mediator” at the Boston Bar Association on October 14, 2010.

Mark Cohen’s article, “Stopping the End Around: Enforcing the Reporting Requirement in a Claims-Made Policy and the Continuous Coverage Theory” was published in the July 2010 issue of Covered Events, a publication of DRI’s Insurance Law Committee.

Mark Cohen secured a defense verdict in an insurance coverage arbitration arising from the collapse of a Vertical Belt System at a coal mine in Illinois. The panel found that the products exclusion in the Architects and Engineers Professional Liability policy precluded coverage. The insured had sought more than $1 million in damages.

The Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed a decision granting summary judgment to the firm’s client, Lexington Insurance Company, in a coverage and bad faith lawsuit arising from a national discrimination class action. The court found that the claim was first made before the policy period. The Superior Court further found that Lexington’s correct decision to decline… Continue Reading →

Mark Cohen obtained summary judgment for Lexington Insurance Company in the United States District Court for the District of the Virgin Islands in a breach of contract claim alleging multi-million dollar damages. HOVENSA LLC v. Lexington Ins. Co., 2009 WL 2950366 (D.V.I. Sept. 8, 2009).