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New York Court Reinstates Restaurant Worker’s Product Liability Suit
May 13 2011 // New York’s top court this week reinstated a Manhattan restaurant worker’s product liability lawsuit over a lye-crystal drain cleaner, concluding that the companies behind it have to do more than simply state...
Safety Officials Wants to See New York Theaters’ Emergency Plans
May 12 2011 // The federal agency that governs workplace safety has sent a letter to 63 New York City theaters saying future inspections of the venues will include reviews of their emergency action plans. The letter from the U.S....
Investigators Probe Fatal New York Plane Collision
May 11 2011 // Federal aviation safety investigators are in a densely wooded area in upstate New York where two small planes collided and crashed after taking off from a local airport, killing both pilots. State police Capt. Joseph...
Bus, Taxi Drivers Targeted in Ongoing New York Crackdown
May 11 2011 // The latest and broadest sting in a crackdown on commercial drivers that has ensnared 173 of them since a deadly March tour bus crash has netted nearly four dozen more arrests of drivers of tour buses, New York City buses,...
Chevron, Ecuadoreans Spar over Halted Damage Award
May 11 2011 // Lawyers for Ecuadorean villagers who sued Chevron Corp over pollution in the Amazon rain forest asked a U.S. appeals panel Tuesday to modify a court order that halted enforcement of an $8.6 billion award against the oil...
Lake Flooding Continues to Plague Vermont and New York
May 6 2011 // At one end of the Burlington, Vermont neighborhood, 16-year-old Nathan Shappy was filling sandbags to put around his family’s house. Nearby, Maria Spadanuda waded through 8-inch deep floodwaters surrounding her home,...
New York Senators Push to Toughen Texting at Wheel Law
May 4 2011 // New York’s Senate Republicans promise to push legislation that would allow police to stop and ticket motorists for texting while driving. Using a portable electronic device while at the wheel of a moving vehicle in...
Gymnast Sues Time Warner, Others for $1.8B in New York City
May 2 2011 // A former champion Chinese gymnast has filed a $1.8 billion lawsuit in federal court against Time Warner Inc. and the United States Gymnastics Federation, saying they and others broke promises to care for her after an...
Judge Tosses Worker’s Suit Over New York City Office Bedbugs
May 2 2011 // A former TV news staffer’s pioneering lawsuit over bedbug bites she received at her office has been thrown out by a judge who said workers can’t necessarily hold their employers’ landlords responsible for...
Judge Tosses New York Mets Fan’s Broken-Bat Suit
Apr 29 2011 // A judge has thrown out a New York Mets fan’s lawsuit against the team and Major League Baseball over a bat that broke and flew into his face in the former Shea Stadium’s stands. A judge dismissed the case...
New York Agents Want Say in State Health Exchange
Apr 29 2011 // Insurance agents in the Empire State are calling on lawmakers to ensure that brokers and producers have a role in the creation of the state-based health exchange mandated by federal health care reform. Those calls come...
Northern New York Hit by Severe Flooding, Road Washouts
Apr 28 2011 // Dozens of roads are closed in northern New York after severe storms dumped more than 2 1/2 inches of rain, causing extensive flooding and washing out at least one bridge. Local media report that heavy rain late Tuesday and...
Fire Deaths Prompt New York to Eye Illegal Subdivisions
Apr 28 2011 // City fire and buildings officials will search for new ways to target landlords who unlawfully subdivide their properties, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday in the wake of a fire that killed a family living in illegal...
New York City Fire Building Cited for Violations
Apr 27 2011 // Building records show that a Bronx row house where a fire killed a 12-year-old boy and his parents had been illegally subdivided. Other complaints listed by the Buildings Departments at the Prospect Avenue private dwelling...
New York Neighbor Sues Chef over Eatery’s Trash
Apr 26 2011 // A neighbor says star chef and New York City restaurateur David Bouley’s trash is really bugging him. W. Robert Curtis says in a lawsuit that a Bouley eatery’s food storage and garbage are subjecting the...
Calif. Places Majestic Insurance into Conservatorship
Apr 21 2011 // Workers’ compensation insurer Majestic Insurance Co. has been placed into conservation by order of the San Francisco Superior Court. California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has simultaneously filed a motion...
Lightning Possible Cause of Fire at New York Condos
Apr 21 2011 // Authorities are trying to determine if a lightning strike from severe thunder storms sparked a fire that caused extensive damage to a suburban Buffalo condominium complex. WGRZ-TV reports that firefighters arriving on the...
New York Increases Requirements for Excess Line Insurers
Apr 21 2011 // A new regulation that goes into effect in New York this month will force excess line insurers to triple their minimum policyholders surplus to $45 million by the middle of 2013. For eligible excess line insurers already in...
Exploding Drum Injures Upstate New York Worker
Apr 20 2011 // A 42-year-old upstate New York man has been hospitalized after the 55-gallon drum he was cutting up exploded and shot into the air, hitting him on the head. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office says Ricky Poore was...
Belly Dancing Sinks New York Woman’s Disability Claim
Apr 19 2011 // A Staten Island woman who was getting $850 a month in alimony because she was supposedly disabled and unable to work had to give the payments up after her ex-husband spotted photos of her belly dancing on the...
