A Delaware bankruptcy judge reluctantly adjourned a second-day hearing Tuesday in the Chapter 11 reorganization of identity verification company Jumio Inc., saying that it would be appropriate to wait until the U.S. trustee decides on the formation of an equity committee. The other ad hoc Continue Reading
Attorneys Assess Lowered Punitive Award in Hip Case
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
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
The Firms That Landed The Most Patent Suits Last Year
A new Lex Machina report highlights the firms that worked on the most new patent litigation last year at the district court level for plaintiffs and defendants. Here, Law360 takes a closer look at the top firms in each category. As part of Lex Machina’s patent litigation report for 2015, which is Continue Reading
Urban Outfitters Can’t Back Up Coverage Claim, Insurer Says
One of two insurers that Urban Outfitters Inc. claims failed to fulfill their duty to fight two 2014 copyright infringement suits over a dress has detailed objections to the clothier’s latest complaint in Pennsylvania state court, saying several policies Urban cited expired before the alleged Continue Reading