NEWS
- March 2009: Mr. Little was amicus curiae on behalf of the State of California, in State of California v. Allstate Insurance Company, ---Cal.Rptr.3d---, 2009 WL 579415 (California Supreme Court, March 9, 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.
SINCE THE FORMATION OF OUR FIRM IN 2008, WE HAVE RECOVERED IN EXCESS OF $7,567,000 ON BEHALF OF OUR CLIENTS.
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