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A Connecticut federal judge has dismissed claims against seven companies targeted in an insurer’s subrogation suit seeking compensation for $200 million in losses associated with a deadly explosion at a Connecticut power plant in 2010. U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill granted motions to dismiss brought by subcontractors involved in the procedure that led to the…

The New York Appellate Division, First Department has upheld a trial court’s order that an insurer (which had refused to acknowledge its obligation for over 5 years) had a duty to defend an entity not named under the policies but which was charged with liability in multiple lawsuits throughout the U.S. which potentially implicated the…

On May 17, 2012, the Hartford Superior Court, Complex Litigation Docket part, granted summary judgment to ABB, Inc., dismissing the product liability claims against it in Lake Road Trust, Ltd., et al. vs. ABB, Inc., et al., docket number HHD X04 CV-10-6016502 S. Plaintiffs, the owner-operators of a power plant, sued ABB, Inc. and others…

In the first quarter of 2012, Bryon Friedman and Bruce Ainbinder secured Additional Insured coverage rights and reimbursement of past defense costs from three recalcitrant insurers in connection with three separate Labor Law actions filed against their clients.

Robert and Joanna argued in front of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania that the generic term “American” as a basis for plaintiff’s identification, is simply too vague and speculative to implicate its client. The court concurred and granted summary judgment.

Robert Joyce and FL local counsel secured a unanimous defense verdict after a day 10 jury trial in a motorcycle helmet product liability case where plaintiff’s attorney claimed that a defect in the subject helmet allowed the helmet to dislodge from the rider’s head, resulting in fatal injuries. 

Jim Ughetta and TX local counsel achieved a dismissal of a helmet manufacturer in a case venued in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Del Rio Division. The 21-year-old ATV rider sustained fatal injuries when his ATV struck a parked trailer.

Following a six-week trial in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Robert J. Kelly, along with California local counsel, obtained a defense verdict for our helmet manufacturing client. The high stakes case involved a seventeen-year old motor cross rider, who suffered a severe and permanent brain injury as a result of a crash. The plaintiffs’…

A New York state court accepted our argument that since our client was only the supplier of the materials used for a temporary staircase upon which the plaintiff allegedly sustained injury and thus did not own, maintain, or control the staircase at the time of the accident, judgment was warranted as a matter of law.

In a fire case in which the plaintiff alleged that our client had negligently designed and/or manufactured an electric power cord included in a wall-mounted electric water fountain, the New Hampshire Superior Court held that our client was protected by New Hampshire’s building industry statute of repose and awarded summary judgment to our client.