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Mark Cohen spoke at the Defense Research Institute’s Annual Meeting about The Greening of America: New issues in Construction and Insurance Litigation.

Mark Cohen’s article, Passing the Bill: Do Claims Involving an Insured’s Bills, Fees or Charges Allege a “Professional Service?” was published in the Defense Research Institute’s June 2009 Covered Events publication.

Brian McDonough co-presented a webcast for the Defense Research Institute on “Practical and Tactical Tools for Defending Extra-Contractual Claims.”

Brian McDonough gave a presentation on “Tactical Considerations for Exercising the Right, and Terminating the Duty, to Defend” at the Defense Research Institute’s June 2009 Insurance Bad Faith and Extra-Contractual Claims Symposium.

Brian McDonough obtained summary judgment dismissal of an action against Commerce and Industry Insurance Company and AIG Domestic Claims, Inc. in May 2009. The suit included claims of unfair insurance practices and fraudulent inducement based upon alleged misrepresentations by claims handlers regarding coverage for purported rehabilitation services provided by a brain injury treatment facility to… Continue Reading →

Mark Cohen was appointed Chair of the Defense Research Institute’s Professional Liability subcommittee of the Insurance Law Committee in February 2009.

In an opinion issued in December 2008, Mark Cohen represented National Union Fire Insurance Company in the successful appeal affirming a defense verdict in a bad faith and insurance coverage case in the District of Massachusetts. National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa. v. West Lake Academy, 548 F.3d 8 (1st Cir. 2008).

Mark Cohen and R.J. Maselek obtained a defense verdict for Lexington Insurance Company in Lifestyles v. Lexington Insurance Company, a case arbitrated in September 2008 before the American Arbitration Association. The arbitration concerned the availability of coverage under an Employment Practices Liability Insurance policy and whether the insurer was estopped from raising coverage defenses.