A recent decision slashing the punitive award in the first Wright Conserve hip implant bellwether trial is still a significant plaintiffs’ win, an attorney who represents plaintiffs in other medical device suits and a law professor say. The court cut the punitive award from $10 million to $1.1 Continue Reading
Play Ball! Baseball Season Brings More Big Fees for Big-League Firms
Snow may still be falling in parts of the Northeast, but the games must go on. Major League Baseball’s 2016 season started this week, with big-league firms continuing to reap the benefits of representing the world’s best ballplayers. McCarter & English [is]...among a dozen legal advisers that Continue Reading
McCarter Promotes Seven to Partnership in Five Locations
Seven McCarter & English attorneys, resident in five of the firm’s nine offices and four of its practice groups, have been elevated to partnership. Attorneys from the Boston, Hartford, Newark, East Brunswick, and Wilmington offices have become partners, effective Apr. 1, 2016. The new partners Continue Reading
BMS Cancer Treatment Patent Survives Merck Attack, For Now
A Delaware federal judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss a suit by Bristol-Myers Squibb accusing Merck of infringing a patent for its immunotherapy cancer treatment, saying that although the patent is directed to a natural phenomenon, further discovery is needed to determine if it is invalid. U.S. Continue Reading
Patent Lawsuits On The Upswing Again In Massachusetts
The number of new patent cases in the Bay State increased by 36 percent in 2015 after dropping precipitously the previous year. The number of new patent lawsuits filed in Massachusetts federal court increased by a third in 2015 over the previous year, a report found, while law firms with large Continue Reading
The Rise of Reps and Warranties Insurance in the Lower Middle Market
Representations and warranties insurance (RWI) — a tool used in an M&A deal to cover for breaches in a seller’s reps and warranties — is gaining ground as these products get more sophisticated and the risks involved are better understood by the market. “The use of RWI is becoming more and Continue Reading
Best 50 Women in Business: The Class of 2016
NJBIZ honored New Jersey's most dynamic women in business with its Best 50 Women in Business awards dinner, held at The Palace at Somerset Park in Somerset. The Class of 2016 includes bankers, doctors, entrepreneurs and everyone in between. To view the slideshow, including Sheila, Best 50 Women Continue Reading
Scott Kobler #25 in NJBIZ Power 50 Health Care for 2016
Here’s an anecdote that properly describes the influence of this McCarter & English attorney: “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been talking to a hospital CEO and they have said, ‘Let me check with Scott on that,’ ” one longtime player in the health care field said. Scott Kobler is a regular Continue Reading
4 Types of Evidence To Bolster Your Bad Faith Case
For policyholders, bad faith claims are perhaps the strongest tool to deter insurance companies from denying coverage without proper justification or unreasonably delaying its decision on a claim. However, definitively proving that a carrier acted in bad faith can often be an uphill battle. Here, Continue Reading
Report: Patent Litigation Bounced Back, Migrated to Texas in 2015
The number of patent cases filed in federal court jumped up in 2015, and the Eastern District of Texas emerged as the single most popular place to file cases by a large margin, according to a report scheduled for release on Wednesday. Issued by data analytics company Lex Machina, the report looks Continue Reading