ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - An entirely unprovoked assault at work is covered by workers’ compensation, New York’s highest court ruled, rejecting arguments by a medical resident that his shooting wasn’t a workplace-related injury.
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - A Lebanese bank that paid $580 million for the assets of Lebanese Canadian Bank also bought New York jurisdiction over lawsuits claiming LCB financed terrorism, the state’s highest court ruled.
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - A man who traded a lifetime annuity of $3,000 a month for up-front payments worth a fraction of that amount can’t sue an insurance company for allowing him to sign such a bad deal, New York’s highest court ruled.
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - New York’s highest court threw out a $16.5 million jury verdict against a talc manufacturer, saying plaintiff experts failed to prove a woman’s cancer death was due to inhaling asbestos fibers in the talcum powder she claimed to have used daily for more than 20 years.
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - A lawsuit on behalf of the daughter of a man who committed suicide soon after being released from a New York hospital can proceed even though the plaintiff failed to comply with state law regulating medical malpractice suits, a New York appellate court has ruled.
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - The New York Office of Victim Services didn’t exceed its authority by limiting the fees lawyers representing crime victims could charge, the state’s highest court ruled, in a decision a dissenting judge said will make it harder for claimants to receive benefits.
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - New York’s highest court has expanded the definition of “immediate family” to include grandparents in so-called bystander recovery lawsuits, broadening the number of people who can sue for compensation over witnessing the injury or death of a relative even though they suffered no physical injury themselves.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – An employee at Bloomberg L.P. can’t sue its founder, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, over the sexual harassment and abuse she was allegedly subjected to.
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – New York’s highest court says federal approval is good enough to allow a proposed pipeline to exercise eminent domain power on certain areas in the state.
The New York Court of Appeals determined that a plaintiff properly claimed consumer-oriented behavior when alleging damages related to an insurance company falsifying representations made to New York City workers so that it would be selected over other companies.
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - Raises given to Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executives after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacks can’t count toward their pension benefits, New York’s highest court has ruled.
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – Written permission is not required for the New York's Comptroller's Office to subpoena a medical provider's records to audit state-issued payments, the state's highest court has ruled.
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – The New York Court of Appeals on Nov. 25 reversed a lower court's decision and concluded that an injury to a corrections officer while transporting a prisoner did qualify for performance-of-duty disability benefits because it was an accident and not deliberate.
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – The New York Court of Appeals has issued a decision concerning a question from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit concerning whether state law creates “a private right of action for bad-faith and malicious reporting to the Office of Professional Misconduct.”
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) — On Oct. 22, New York’s Court of Appeals agreed that dismissing a class action against a Harlem property group and its owner was premature.
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – The New York Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court's ruling that found a rental center and equipment manufacturer liable for a man's death after he rented a Bobcat skid steer loader.
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that an Ohio gun dealer cannot be subjected to litigation in New York after a gun he sold was involved in a New York shooting.
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – The state of New York Court of Appeals ruled in a Dec. 11 opinion that the New York City Police Department does not have to turn over personnel records requested by the New York Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL).
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – The maker of floor tiles sued for a man’s asbestos-caused disease says all exposures to the deadly substance are not equal, using a 2015 state court decision that favored companies sued in the long-running mass tort.
