New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Marc Frazier Scholl and Adam Kaufmann | June 12, 2020
A discussion of the need for legislative change to address the issue of the use of excessive force by police officers, including proposed amendments to the New York State Penal Law, a new chapter entitled "Excessive Force by Police Officers."
By Jason Grant | January 29, 2020
The parents of a Cornell University freshman whose dead body was found at the bottom of a gorge after he allegedly was hazed by Phi Kappa Psi fraternity members have launched a 41-page negligence lawsuit against the university, the national fraternity and members of its Cornell chapter.
By Jason Grant | September 11, 2019
In a case involving a patient on dialysis who had a bacterial staph infection that a laboratory discovered but did not report to the patient, the First Department appellate panel wrote that "the failure to investigate a condition that would have led to an incidental discovery of an unindicated condition, does not constitute malpractice."
By Jason Grant | July 29, 2019
The woman died nearly a year and a half after the transplant surgery, due to a series of complications—including losing her new kidney and being forced back onto dialysis—that her lawyers argued sprang from a urine leak going undiagnosed. The jury found causation for her injuries but not for her death.
By Andrew Denney | October 15, 2018
After a five-week trial and 23 total hours of deliberations spread over four days, a jury of 11 found against cigarette maker R.J. Reynolds on claims of defective design, fraud failure to adequately warn and in favor of the family of the late Louis Summerlin, a longtime smoker who worked for years as an automotive brake mechanic.
By Andrew Denney | August 8, 2018
A Manhattan judge has ordered the New York City Police Department to release a trove of documents from the case of Ramarley Graham, who was shot and killed in 2012 by an officer who has since left the department.
By Greg Land | June 21, 2018
Atlanta lawyer Jonathan Johnson said his mention as an aviation litigator in USA Today led to a nine-client lawsuit against Southwest Airlines and Boeing Co. stemming from an April midair engine failure that shattered a jet's window and killed a passenger.
By Christine Simmons | June 20, 2018
Charges of stealing from clients are more common at small firms that aren't large ones like Barclay Damon—but no law firm is immune.
By Susan DeSantis | May 29, 2018
The New York Law Journal asked Matt Funk, president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and is a senior partner at Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano, to share his opinions on the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision on employment contracts and new laws on sexual harassment and scaffold protection.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 24, 2018
Merck has moved to coordinate dozens of lawsuits brought over injuries allegedly caused by its shingles vaccine, Zostavax.
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