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Lawyers from the firm have had particular success in obtaining injunctions that have protected businesses from unfair competition and enforced existing contractual rights.
In Beilowitz v. Gen. Motors Corp, 233 F. Supp. 2d 631 (D.N.J. 2002), lawyers from the firm obtained a preliminary injunction against General Motors under the New Jersey Franchise Practices Act, which prevented General Motors from imposing a new nationwide marketing program on its main parts distributor in New Jersey. The program would have imposed a territorial marketing program on the distributor that would have resulted in the loss of forty percent of its business.
In Volunteer Firemen’s Insurance Services, Inc. v. CIGNA Property and Casualty Insurance Agency, 693 A.2d 1330 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1997), the firm’s lawyers obtained a preliminary injunction against CIGNA which enforced a covenant not to compete that CIGNA had entered into fifteen years earlier with its largest agency. The agency had developed and brought to CIGNA plans for a major new line of insurance and CIGNA had agreed not to enter the market itself for a period of years should the relationship with the agency ever terminate. When, after many years, the agency determined to market the insurance without the aid of CIGNA’s underwriting, CIGNA announced plans to enter the market directly itself. The Court enforced the contract and both preliminary and finally enjoined CIGNA from entering the market.
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