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#1 New York Court Blocks Suit Against Social Media Giants Over Buffalo Racial Massacre
Jul 28 2025 // Social media companies cannot be sued for their alleged roles in a racially-motivated mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo in 2022, according to a New York court that said to allow the lawsuit would “result in...
#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 Two Men Charged with Staging Car Crashes for Insurance Money in New York City
Aug 1 2025 // Two Brooklyn men have been charged with staging three automobile accidents and then seeking insurance payouts from Allstate Insurance Co. for damages and purported injuries. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced...
#4 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...
#5 NY and NJ Flash Flood Threats Recede as Weather Stabilizes
Aug 1 2025 // Thunderstorms disrupted New York City transit and inundated roads just as workers started their the home-bound commute Thursday, but conditions were improving into the night and Friday morning commuters can likely expect...
#6 Liberty Mutual Settles With Travelers Over New York Subcontractor Coverage
May 30 2025 // Liberty Mutual reported that it has reached a settlement with Travelers Insurance in a case involving a construction firm being sued by a man who was injured when he fell down an elevator shaft on a construction...
#7 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...
#8 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...
#9 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...
#10 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...
#11 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...
#12 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...
#13 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...
#14 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...
#15 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...
#16 Fire Kills a New York Cat Sanctuary Founder and 100+ Rescued Felines
Apr 3 2025 // A fire burned down a cat shelter in suburban New York, killing its founder and more than 100 of the felines he rescued and sparking a rescue operation for dozens of cats still roaming the destroyed property. As many as 150...
#17 Judge Dismisses Baldoni’s Defamation Suits Against Actress Lively, NY Times
Jun 11 2025 // A judge on Monday dismissed the lawsuit that actor and director Justin Baldoni filed against his “It Ends With Us” costar Blake Lively after she sued him last year for sexual harassment and retaliation. U.S....
#18 Survivor Advocates Criticize New York Top Court’s Dismissal of Sexual Abuse Lawsuit
Mar 20 2025 // A lawsuit against New York alleging sexual abuse decades ago was tossed out by the state’s top court Tuesday because it lacked specific information, drawing criticism from advocates concerned about setting...
#19 Citi Pushes Back on New York’s Online Fraud Suit: We’re Not ‘Bad Guys’
Oct 9 2024 // Citigroup Inc. said US banks will be forced into a “dramatic shift” in how electronic payments are processed if New York state wins a lawsuit claiming the company doesn’t do enough to prevent online...
#20 JetBlue Stowaway Deaths Probed After Florida Flight From New York
Jan 8 2025 // Local law enforcement officials in Fort Lauderdale are investigating the deaths of two individuals found in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue Airways Corp. plane after it arrived at the Florida airport on Monday. A...
