John N. Love
Experience
- Practice focuses on high-stakes complex litigation, primarily involving insurance or intellectual property.
- Practice for insurers includes both property and casualty coverage issues as well as reinsurance.
- Intellectual property practice includes patent litigation ranging from cameras to vaccines, and also trademark and trade name disputes.
Selected Results*
September 11 claims insurance for all buildings at the World Trade Center and several related business interruption claims.
Catastrophe explosions at chemical plants.
Y2K insurance claims, including the first appellate decision - Port of Seattle.
Mold and other progressive loss claims.
Represented Honeywell in litigation against the camera industry to enforce its autofocus patents.
Represented Medtronic in patent litigation involving stents.
Part of team representing the State of Minnesota and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Minnesota against the tobacco industry
Memberships
- Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel
- American Bar Association - Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section; Vice-Chair of Property Insurance Law Committee
- Boston Bar Association
- Massachusetts Bar Association
- Minnesota State Bar Association
Bar Admissions
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Maine
- U.S. District Court, Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court, Minnesota
Education
- Harvard Law School, J.D. (1978)
- Cornell University, B.S., Engineering, with distinction
Books and Articles
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Business Interruption Policies: Calculation of The Indemnity Period
Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel, Quarterly, Volume 37, No. 3
(Spring 1987)
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Selected Speeches
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A New Twist on an Old Problem: The Impact of a Loss of Historical Data on the Business Interruption Claim
The Property Loss Research Bureau and The Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, Embassy Suites O'Hare Hotel, Chicago, Illinois
(October 23, 2006)
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Business Interruption Issues
Practicing Law Institute
(February 2005)
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Critical Issues in Business Interruption After 9-11
Joint PLRB/FDCC
(September 2004)
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Mold and the Causation Quagmire
Complex Insurance Claims Litigation Association
(June 2003)
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