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#1 Jury Faults New York Railroad — Mostly — for 2015 Crossing Crash That Killed 6
Jul 23 2024 // A commuter railroad is mostly at fault for a fiery and deadly 2015 collision between a train and an SUV at a suburban New York crossing, a jury has found in a verdict that lays out how the bill for any damages will be...
#2 Deadly Crash Raises Questions About Safety of New York’s Helicopter Tours
Apr 14 2025 // A helicopter ride giving a thrilling sweep of Manhattan’s iconic skyline has long been on the to-do list for New York City tourists of means. For several hundred dollars, tour companies fly passengers high above the...
#3 Appellate Judges Skeptical of New York Civil Fraud Case Against Trump
Sep 27 2024 // Appeals court judges signaled skepticism on Thursday toward the civil fraud case brought by New York state against Donald Trump as the former president asked them to toss a nearly half-billion dollar judgment against him...
#4 As Demand for Food Delivery Skyrockets So Do Complaints About Drivers
Jun 12 2024 // A soaring demand for food delivered fast has spawned small armies of couriers — and increasing alarm — in big cities where scooters, motorcycles and mopeds zip in and out of traffic and hop onto pedestrian-filled...
#5 After Decades of Abuse Complaints, New York Pediatrician Ordered to Pay $1.6 Billion
Apr 10 2025 // Starting in the 1980s, New York law enforcement and health officials fielded sexual abuse complaints from the young patients of a respected pediatrician who ran his practice out of a basement office in his home on Long...
#6 New York Issues Guidance for Insurers on Insuring Affordable Housing
Jun 25 2024 // New York has issued guidance to commercial insurers that they are prohibited from inquiring about or making coverage decisions based on a property’s status as an affordable housing development or a tenant’s...
#7 Supreme Court Backs NRA in First Amendment Claim Against New York Regulator
May 30 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court has revived a claim by the National Rifle Association (NRA) that a former New York regulator allegedly violated the organization’s First Amendment rights by coercing insurers and banks to...
#8 Real Nut Case: Ice Cream Maker Sued Over Lack of Actual Pistachios
Jun 11 2024 // Is it nuts to assume a scoop of pistachio ice cream should contain actual pistachios? Or how about real butter in a dish of butter pecan? Such weighty questions about a favorite summertime confection could soon be decided...
#9 Rebuilding Rome: Upstate New York City Looking Forward After Destructive Tornado
Jul 30 2024 // A tornado that hit this small, upstate city tore off rooftops, leveled brick buildings and toppled the steeples of two historic churches. No one was killed, but the twister left a debris-strewn scar through downtown and...
#10 Medicare Advantage Whistleblower Case Settled in New York
Dec 19 2024 // US authorities have reached a settlement to resolve a whistleblower case alleging that a New York state health insurer systematically defrauded the federal Medicare program by exaggerating how sick members were in order to...
#11 New York City’s Biggest Taxi Insurer Is Insolvent, Risking Transit Meltdown
Sep 4 2024 // In an unassuming white and blue office building in Freeport, a few miles into Nassau County, sits the headquarters of American Transit Insurance Co. The 52-year-old, family-owned firm is hardly a household name, but...
#12 Orchestrator of $60 Million New York Auto Insurance Fraud Gets 10 Years in Prison
Jun 4 2024 // A New Jersey man who orchestrated a 13-year long, $60 million no-fault automobile insurance scam in New York has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Bradley Pierre was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe...
#13 Sarah Palin, New York Times to Face Off in Defamation Retrial
Apr 11 2025 // Sarah Palin and the New York Times are headed back to a courtroom where the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate will try convincing a second jury the newspaper defamed her in an editorial...
#14 New York’s Top Court Weighs Child Victim Act Lawsuit Standards
Feb 14 2025 // Lawyers sparred before New York’s top court Wednesday over how specific a man alleging sexual abuse decades ago needs to be in his lawsuit against the state in a case that’s being watched by advocates concerned...
#15 New York Sexual Abuse Claimants Want Courts to End Case Backlog
Jun 20 2024 // A group representing claimants alleging childhood sexual abuse want New York courts to take steps to alleviate the backlog of lawsuits brought under the state’s Child Victims Act (CVA), including possibly setting up...
#16 Sarah Palin, NY Times Have Explored Settlement, as Judge Sets Defamation Retrial
Nov 13 2024 // Sarah Palin and the New York Times have explored trying to settle the former Alaska governor and Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate’s closely watched defamation case against the newspaper, their lawyers said...
#17 New York High Court Upholds Uber Arbitration Mandate For Previously-Filed Injury Case
Nov 26 2024 // In a 5-2 decision, New York State’s high court this week upheld Uber’s “clickwrap” agreement requiring arbitration of all disputes in a case of a passenger who was injured by another vehicle after...
#18 New York City Cab Crash Sends Rider on ‘Nightmare’ to Get Insurance Money
Sep 12 2024 // Carlos Quiles says he was seriously injured in May 2022 when the Uber he was traveling in crashed into two parked cars in Queens — after the driver lost control of his Toyota while trying to clear a fly or some other...
#19 11 Face Charges in NY School Hazing That Allegedly Included Staged Armed Abduction
May 5 2025 // Members of a high school lacrosse program in upstate New York are accused of staging an armed abduction of younger players in a stunt that “went way beyond hazing,” prosecutors said this week. All 11 people...
#20 Storms Pummel Large Swath From Ozarks and Plains to New York and New England
Jul 19 2024 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Another wave of severe storms pummeled a wide swath of the United States and Canada leading to flash floods and water rescues Wednesday in the Ozark Mountains, dropping a tornado that ravaged a...
