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Won a defense verdict for a national waste management company when after a three week trial a jury rejected a $3 million breach of contract claim by the waste management company's joint venturer in the development of Pennsylvania's largest solid waste landfill
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Defended a client in a breach of contract/fraud jury trial involving two intermodal transportation companies, in which the jury, after a three week trial, awarded only $220,000 of an $8 million claim against our client for lost commissions.
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Defeated a $30 million breach of contract claim when joint venturers sued our waste management client, and obtained summary judgment in a multi-million dollar insurance/employment contract case after three years of litigation and 60 days of depositions.
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Successfully managed, litigated, and settled employment wage and hour class actions and individual actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act in several jurisdictions in various state and federal courts.
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In a multi-million dollar environmental administrative proceeding, Alan persuaded the Ohio Environmental Review Board that our client, a waste management company, did not violate complex state regulations in applying for and building its hazardous waste landfill. Alan managed a nine lawyer team to defeat a city in Ohio's ten year effort to close down the site.
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In a complex week long non-jury trial, on behalf of a national bank, Alan won a very favorable settlement before post trial motions.
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Defended against a $7 million damage claim brought by the owner of an historic landmark banquet hall which argued that our client, a waste management company, was responsible for a fire that destroyed the site and business. After plaintiff presented its case in chief for a week to the jury, as a result of cross-examination, the case settled for only $140,000.
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Alan won a major arbitration in a health care non-compete/failure to pay earn-outs case. The plaintiff sought $3 million in earn-outs from the sale of his medical clinics, and he sought to invalidate his seven-year 50-mile non-compete agreement. After two years of litigation and a two-week arbitration, plaintiff lost on his earn-out claim, the non-compete was upheld as written and Alan's client was awarded in excess of $700,000 on its counterclaims.
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Won summary judgment in federal court in an insurance coverage action that resulted in a multi-million dollar judgment for client. In a highly contentious litigation spanning five years, Alan forced one of the country's largest insurers to defend his client in a $30 million commercial tort claim and pay a settlement to avoid a claim of "bad faith." All told the insurer had to pay about $17 million. Our client made an almost $2 million "profit" from being sued. The insurer settled the underlying $30 million claim against our client for under the policy limits.
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Won a landmark Third Circuit decision upholding the dismissal of a complaint against a life insurer based on misrepresentations involving smoking.
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