NEWS

• July 2011: The firm was counsel for plaintiff in FKA Distributing Co. v. Lexington Insurance Co., No. 120041656 JAMS, Los Angeles California, (July 2011).  The arbitrator found that Lexington breached its defense obligation by failing to defend its policyholder pursuant to Lexington’s Commercial General Liability Insurance Policy.  Lexington was held liable for  $816,000 in  damages flowing from the contract breach including defense costs, settlement costs, and value of trademark surrendered through settlement with underlying plaintiff.
  

• November 2010:  Mr. Little was counsel for Hudson Insurance Group in Hudson Insurance Company v. Colony Insurance Company, ---F.3d. --- (9th Cir., November 5, 2010).  The court found that Colony breached its defense obligation by failing to defend its policyholder pursuant to Colony's "advertising injury" coverage for "infringement of slogan."  The court also rejected Colony's "speculation" argument, clarifying that a defense is owed even where all elements of a cause of action are not alleged and the underlying plaintiff does not describe the trademark as a slogan.
  

• March 2009:  Mr. Little was amicus curiae on behalf of the State of California, in State of California v. Allstate Insurance Company, 45 Cal.4th 1008 (9th Cir., 2009).  The decision overruled several appellate decisions which had held that insurers are not obligated to pay indivisible damages resulting from covered and non-covered causes.  So long as the covered cause is a substantial factor in the resulting damages, the insurer must pay all damages regardless of whether excluded causes also contributed.   
  

• January 2009: Mr. Little secured a defense and independent counsel in two high stakes lawsuits, each of which included trademark infringement, disparagement and unfair competition claims.
  

• January 2009: Mr. Little, on behalf of an insurer, recovered from another insurer defense costs expended to defend a mutual insured in a costly intellectual property dispute brought by the NFL.  Judgment entered in the amount of $621,000 in favor of client.  Hudson Insurance Company v. Colony Insurance Company, 2008 WL 5504572 (C.D. Cal.)    
  

• December 2008: Mr. Little, Ms. Reid and Ms. Karzai recovered settlement costs in the amount of $325,000 in a sophisticated intellectual property lawsuit including trademark and unfair competition claims.
  

• November 2008: Mr. Little and Ms. Karzai secured a fully funded defense for policyholder in a trademark infringement lawsuit.
  

• November 2008: Mr. Little and Ms. Reid recovered $450,000 in defense and settlement costs from an insurer, bringing client’s total insurance recovery to $2,003,009. 
  

• October 2008: Mr. Little secured a defense and independent counsel in a false advertising and trade libel lawsuit.
  

• October 2008: Ms. Karzai prevailed on behalf of her client by obtaining a court order denying plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction in a real estate nuisance case.
  

• September 2008:  Mr. Little and Ms. Reid recovered $99,000 in defense and settlement costs from an insurer who refused to defend a trade secret theft case.
  

• August 2008:  Ms. Karzai prevailed on behalf her client by obtaining a court order denying a temporary restraining order in a real estate nuisance case.  
  

• July 2008: Mr. Little recovered $72,000 in unreimbursed defense and settlement costs from an insurer in a trademark infringement case.
  

• May 2008:  Mr. Little secured a defense through independent counsel for an antitrust case.   
  

• April 2008: Ms. Reid secured a court ordered reimbursement of defense costs for a patent infringement and malicious prosecution action. 
  

• April 2008:  Mr. Little and Ms. Reid secured a defense pursuant to a Real Estate Agents’ Errors and Omissions Policy. 
  

• March 2008: Mr. Little and Ms. Karzai recovered defense costs for policyholder facing liability in excess of $50 million: $3,250,000 recovery.
  

• February 2008: Mr. Little recovered from an insurer a policyholder’s settlement costs in an employment suit as well as policyholder’s attorney’s fees in the arbitration against its insurer: $200,000 recovery.
  

• January 2008: Ms. Reid and Mr. Little, on behalf of one insurer, recovered complete indemnity from another insurer who wrongfully refused to defend a mutual policyholder: $547,720 recovery.
  

WE RECOVERED $8,302,715 ON BEHALF OF OUR CLIENTS IN 2010.

SINCE THE FORMATION OF OUR FIRM IN 2008, WE HAVE RECOVERED OVER 15 MILLION.

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