all - Opinion Summaries

CONT'L INS. CO. v. STATE OF NEW YORK

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
An election to exclude certain executive officers from coverage under Workers' Compensation Law section 54(6) also eliminates a corporation's coverage...

MAIZ v. VIRANI

Civil Procedure, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Judgement Enforcement, Property Law & Real Estate
The Texas turnover statute cannot be used to adjudicate the substantive property rights of non-judgment debtor corporations under the facts, without a...

CARTER-SHIELDS v. ALTON HEALTH INST.

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Because the prohibition against the corporate practice of medicine does not apply to a corporate entity which has been sanctioned by the legislature...

LEASEQUIP, INC. v. DAPEER

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Professional Malpractice
An attorney is equitably estopped from asserting statute of limitations defense in legal malpractice lawsuit, when: 1) the attorney advised his...

MIGA v. JENSEN

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Remedies, Securities Law
Where defendant breached an agreement to sell his stock in a privately held corporation and, during trial, the corporation went public, the proper...

MINIAT v. ED MINIAT, INC.

Corporation & Enterprise Law
Summary judgment for the defendants affirmed, where plaintiff, a shareholder in both defendant corporations, sought a declaratory judgment announcing...

TELXON CORP. v. FED. INS. CO.

Class Actions, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Insurance Law
District court's grant of summary judgment to defendant affirmed, where defendant was not obligated by an officers and directors liability policy to...

GEROW v. ROHM & HAAS CO.

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Labor & Employment Law
An executive's change-of-control (or "Golden Parachute") agreement did not entitle him to both the pay he would have received had he stayed, and the...

GOTHAM PARTNERS, L.P. v. HALLWOOD REALTY PARTNERS, L.P.

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law
A limited partnership agreement may provide for contractually created fiduciary duties substantially mirroring traditional fiduciary duties that apply...

HILLENBRAND, INC. v. INS. CO. OF N. AM.

Civil Procedure, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
A ruling reconsidered and rectified sheds no light on the legal viability of a claim in a malicious prosecution action. Civil Code section 2351 does...