A New York bill, which will take effect January 1, 2025, will have implications for sellers of apparel made with PFAS. The newly enacted bill will prohibit the sale of certain categories...

Two bills currently wending their way through the New York State Assembly and Senate, if enacted, would significantly increase the nature and amount of damages that could be awarded

The New York State Department of Financial Services recently promulgated cyber regulations for financial institutions that are likely to increase the risks to directors & officers, resulting in an increase in claims.

Financial institutions fear providing banking services to the cannabis industry for numerous reasons...

Hospitals are commonly named as defendants in medical malpractice lawsuits for claims arising from alleged injuries within their walls, but what is their exposure to liability for claims that arise from alleged sexual assaults by staff on their premises?

A Florida state senator has put forward a bill to protect medical marijuana users from workplace discrimination, including firings for positive drug tests, as discrimination lawsuits follow the...

The Supreme Court found that the agreement signed by Mrs. Crespo was void and violated public policy because it included statutory terms that only favored the providers.

The recent decision in Mayo v. NYU Langone Med. Ctr., 2018 NY Slip Op. (U) 30456 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. March, 13, 2018), voiding a settlement on grounds of mutual mistake, holds important lessons...

Signed into law on January 16, 2024, by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, S-4265/A-5912 promises to categorically alter the alcoholic beverage industry.

On March 23, 2018, the New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) released a review of the state's eight-year-old medical marijuana program in its Executive Order No. 6 Report (Report).

In Ebert v. C.R. Bard, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit determined that Pennsylvania state law is unclear on two issues of medical device liability, and sent the issues to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for review.

On June 20, 2019, the House of Representatives passed a bipartisan amendment by a 267−165 vote that would protect state-legal cannabis programs from interference by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

California. Dominique identifies how the agricultural industry in Monterey County circumvented these exclusion laws in favor of the labor force of Japanese immigrants.

A lingering question for the growing cannabis industry has been to what extent insurance could, would or should cover product inventory.

New York has joined New Jersey, Ohio and Massachusetts in attempting to mandate eradication of the "virus exclusion" in business interruption policies...

A highly-valued and requested resource guide, the Review provides an overview of constitutional and statutory limitations on punitive damages. It also summarizes the laws in each state.

On July 17, 2018, in a barely four-line Mandate, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied a Petition for leave to appeal an interlocutory order by the Southern District of New York's...

On May 22, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its unanimous decision in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, No. 16-341, S.Ct. 2017, and drastically changed the politics...

A lawyer's standard risk for liability exposure comes from a lawsuit brought by a client alleging that the lawyer has breached some duty to the client causing damages...

Society has long known and countenanced the effects of alcohol on behavior.