By Josefa Velasquez | November 22, 2017
The state's Court of Appeals ruled that the Battery Park City Authority is a government entity and didn't have legal standing to challenge Jimmy Nolan's Law, a 2009 state law that gave workers who toiled in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers on 9/11, an extra year to file claims against the authority.
By Josefa Velasquez | November 21, 2017
The state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the state did not violate the compensation clause of the New York Constitution by reducing its contributions to judges' health insurance premiums, thereby reversing a lower court's decision.
By David Klepper, Associated Press | November 15, 2017
Two couples that gave birth to children with a genetic defect later traced back to donated eggs are suing a New York fertility doctor and his clinic.
By Andrew Denney | November 15, 2017
A Bronx jury in a wrongful death case awarded $31 million to the family of an elderly woman who bled to death after allegedly receiving an incorrect heart procedure, though the award was capped at $2.9 million as part of a high-low agreement.
By Josefa Velasquez | November 14, 2017
A Department of Financial Services investigation found that Connecticut-based Cigna illegally sold stop-loss insurance, which may only be sold to large group employers. The investigation also found that Cigna illegally sold fully insured policies outside of the state.
By Jason Grant | November 13, 2017
A former care technician at Montefiore Medical Center failed to show that the reason proffered for her termination was merely a pretext for discrimination against her.
By Andrew Denney | November 7, 2017
A Brooklyn jury in a medical malpractice case awarded more than $26 million to a 7-year-old girl who was born deaf and who suffers from other health problems, issues that her attorney argued could have been mitigated with earlier monitoring of changes in her mother's cervix.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 6, 2017
A Georgia-Pacific LLC unit is blaming “abuses in the tort system” for the skyrocketing number of lawsuits that forced it to file for Chapter 11…
By Andrew Denney | October 25, 2017
A Suffolk County doctor facing criminal charges for overprescribing pain meds who employed the novel defense of blaming his offenses on Big Pharma was unsuccessful in his effort to join a class action suit against the industry filed by a group of New York county governments.
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By Jason Grant | October 25, 2017
Bronx Supreme Court Justice Howard Sherman “properly permitted” counsel for defendant Sally Abouel-Ela to cross-examine the witness about his chiropractic school suspension “for falsely reporting that he had seen patients.”
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