04/27/23 National Interstate Insurance Co. v. Interstate Insurance Co. Appellate Division, First Department Issue of Fact Whether Notice Provided by Additional Insured as Soon as Reasonably Proper Under the Circumstances National Interstate insured New York Crane under a liability insurance po...
A Closer Look at the New Rule Permitting Remote Depositions APRIL 13, 2022NEW YORK FRANCHISE AND DISTRIBUTION LAW Lawyers everywhere (and their clients) have adapted to various court processes proceeding remotely during the pandemic. The ability to use technology has kept the court syst...
https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/2023-theme/ Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls captures the history of multiple women throughout history that have left a mark in society through perseverance, courage and empathy. As I scour the pages of the book, I'm drawn by one single young leader. ...
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. It would be a Hanukkah miracle if we could decide on one spelling for the word Chanukah! Co-workers are like Christmas lights, they hang together, half of them don't work and half of them are not so bright. Jing...
SETTING THE STAGE FOR WOMEN IN OUR LEGAL PROFESSION We would like to take you on a journey back in time to meet some of America's first women in law, learning about their stories, their struggles, and their triumphs. Also – annexed here is link to The Women Trailblazers in the Law Project (WT...
It was a beautiful sunny day today in Selma, Alabama, where thousands of people, including Vice President Kamala Harris and five other senior White House officials, met to honor the 57th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when law enforcement officers tried to beat into silence those Black Americans m...
The amended version of the New York Comprehensive Insurance Act (CIDA) has now been signed into law, known as Chapter 136 of the Laws of 2022. It amends CIDA as adopted on December 31, 2021, Chapter 832 of the Laws of 2021. While the amendments take out some of the sting of CIDA, as first adop...
The talk over the last couple of weeks has been all about New York's Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Act (“CIDA”) which went into effect on December 31, 2021, and the amendments to that law that have been bouncing around the New York State Legislature since that time. For those who were not o...
Pedestrians trip and fall for many reasons, especially in New York. The routine drunken stupor might be one reason, but a defect on the sidewalk is quite another, and actionable as a matter of law. The City of New York, as well as many other municipalities around New York State, is actively i...
On Valentine's Day in 1884, Theodore Roosevelt lost both his wife and his mother. Four years before, Roosevelt could not have imagined the tragedy that would stun him in 1884. February 14, 1880, marked one of the happiest days of his life. He and the woman he had courted for more than ...
On January 18, 2022, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law the New Jersey Insurance Fair Conduct Act (the “Act”). The Act takes effect immediately and represents a significant change in the law governing the conduct of automobile insurers in New Jersey. The Act establishes a private cause of a...
On January 18, 2022, the New York State Senate Rules Committee approved Senate Bill S7882, an amended bill that would substantially reduce the disclosure obligations put into place less than one month ago. The New York State Senate passed the amended bill on January 26, 2022, though it still requ...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the second female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Born in 1933 in Brooklyn, New York, Bader taught at Rutgers University Law School and then at Columbia University, where she became its first female tenured professor. She served as the director of the Women's Rights ...
The story of the FIRST woman governor in the United States. Nellie Tayloe Ross - by Robert Tayloe Ross: Nellie was the first woman in America to be elected governor of a state of our union, in a contested race, and that was the State of Wyoming (in 1924). Not surprisingly, she was an early pio...
The Senate passed the amendment bill by a 60-1 vote. This how the amendments will impact NY Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Act (CIDA), as signed into law as Chapter 832 of the Laws of 2021: Disclosure statute would only apply to lawsuits filed after 12/31/21 effective date, and not retroacti...
On January 24, 2019, the New York Appellate Division held in Vasquez-Santos v. Mathew that the defendant may utilize the services of a "data mining" company for a widespread search of the plaintiff's devices, email accounts, and social media accounts. Vasquez-Santos is an extension of the recent...
On December 31, 2021, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Act, New York State Senate Bill S7052. The statute, which amends New York's Civil Practice Law & Rules (“CPLR”) Article 3101(f), imposes new insurance disclosure requirements, and greatly expands, ...
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