Representative Cases and Clients

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Healthcare

  • Independence Blue Cross and Keystone Health Plan East in bidding and negotiating with the Commonwealth's HealthChoices program for mandatory Medicaid managed care
  • The Board of Trustees of Thomas Jefferson University in the creation of the Jefferson Health System
  • Hospitals such as the University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital and Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc. in on-going litigation regarding the bankruptcy of a health insurance organization in HealthPASS, the Commonwealth's program for Medicaid recipients in the Philadelphia area
  • Methodist Hospital and its affiliated entities in connection with their acquisition by Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  • Omnia, Inc., an organization that sets up networks of obstetricians and gynecologists throughout the country, and engages in managed care contracting. We have provided assistance and advice regarding peer review protection from discovery, and quality improvement/utilization management, as well as clinical research grants and contracts for Omnia's Research and Education Division

Insurance Coverage

Rockwood Casualty Insurance Company, a multi-lines company specializing in workers' compensation insurance; and Pennsylvania Surface Coal Mining Insurance Exchange, a reciprocal insurance exchange specializing in workers' compensation insurance. We advise these insurers on a variety of regulatory matters, including rate regulation, issues related to state reporting requirements such as the Annual Holding Company Registration Statement (Form B), prior notification of transactions between domestic insurers and other members of a holding company system (Form D), market conduct examinations and financial examinations. Dilworth has substantial experience in counseling other insurers whose financial condition is impaired.

Independence Blue Cross, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and other prominent insurers and payors.

Intellectual Property Rights

As litigation counsel, Dilworth won a major victory on behalf of Signature Financial Group, Inc. before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc., the Federal Circuit upheld the validity of Signature Financial's patent for its Hub and Spoke® mutual fund administration program. In a sweeping decision, the Federal Circuit also declared that any computer-implemented algorithm that produces a useful, concrete and tangible result constitutes patentable subject matter. Additionally, State Street unequivocally authorizes the patenting of methods of doing business. As industry watchers predicted, the fallout from State Street has had profound effects on the computer software and financial services industries, and beyond. The decision was cited in IP Worldwide as one the "10 Patents that Changed the World".

Litigation

  • Representation of the Rigas family in civil and bankruptcy matters surrounding the bankruptcy of Adelphia Communications, Inc.
  • Defense of numerous clients in patent litigation brought by PharmaStem Therapeutics, Inc. involving the cryopreservation and use of umbilical cord blood stem cells for reconstituting the human immune system.
  • Defense of the States of Connecticut and Florida in several matters involving civil rights claims arising out of the state's care of the mentally handicapped.
  • Representation of Dow Chemical Company and several units of GE Capital in bankruptcy matters around the country.
  • Representation of former officers of Rite Aid Corporation in both criminal and civil securities fraud matters.
  • Counsel to opt-out plaintiffs in significant antitrust multidistrict litigation, either pending or recently concluded, including the Graphite Electrodes Antitrust litigation and the Linerboard Antitrust litigation.
  • Representation of the bankruptcy trustee of Student Finance Corporation in pursuing millions of dollars in potential recoveries in avoidance actions and claims for breaches of fiduciary duties.
  • Regular representation of Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) in complex personal injury and procurement litigation.
  • Regular representation of Independence Blue Cross and its subsidiaries and affiliates in complex litigation, recently including a class action and multiple individual claims arising out of the misrepresentation by a physician of his psychiatric credentials.
  • Ongoing representation of the School District of Philadelphia against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in an action for state funding of court-mandated desegregation programs, as well as an action charging that the Commonwealth's school funding scheme violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Notable litigation Decisions

  • Dilworth Lawyers Obtain Critical Injunction for MD Lenders and Brokers
  • Dilworth Paxson Facilitates Kimmel Center Settlement
  • Successful appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit which addresses the scope of patentability of computer software used to operate a hub-and-spoke mutual fund accounting system. For more information see State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial group, Inc.
  • Successful representation of investors seeking to purchase the San Francisco Giants baseball franchise and to move the team to St. Petersburg, Florida in an antitrust and libel action against Major League Baseball and its member teams. This suit, Piazza, et al. v. Major League Baseball, resulted in the landmark decision that Major League Baseball's historic exemption from federal antitrust laws did not preclude a suit over franchise relocation.
  • $145 million settlement for Envirotest Partners, in suits against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for termination of Envirotest's state contract for centralized auto emissions testing.
  • Over a period of years, Dilworth has represented the Barnes Foundation, which maintains one of the world's premier collections of Impressionist art, in securing modifications in the trust indenture established by Dr. Albert H. Barnes to permit a world tour of the collection and to facilitate the modernization of the Foundation's facility.

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