Retailers have an interest in knowing who their customers are and what they like buying. Some retailers request information like zip codes from their customers in order to determine other information about them to use in their marketing and advertising efforts.

While health care is the focus of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (collectively known as PPACA), enacted in March 2010, employers are facing many related questions regarding the impact of the act, if any, on other types of employee benefits.

Massive business closings, layoffs and furloughs have rendered many co-op shareholders and condo unit owners unable to pay their mortgage as well as their maintenance or common charges.

On March 27, 2020, President Donald Trump signed into law the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act, which, in and of itself, is unprecedented.

As the Coronavirus losses mount, a burning question for many businesses concerns the insurance coverage available to ease these losses.

One of the most important roles of cooperative/condominium boards is to carefully review proposed apartment alterations.

The hospitality industry relies upon property insurance to protect against the risk of property damage, from minor mishaps to the catastrophic damage caused by hurricanes, accidents and other unforeseen events.

In the Autumn 2009 Employment Law Insider Alert we informed employers about amendments to the New York State Labor Law that require employers to provide written notice to all newly hired employees of 1) rate of pay, 2) regular paydays and 3) the overtime rate of pay, if applicable.

Insurance companies are having some success in court discouraging settlements—no matter how reasonable—between policyholders and lower-layer insurance companies.

Recently there was welcome news for policyholders facing terrorism-related risks: President Obama signed into law the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2015 (TRIPRA), a bill that extends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) for six years.

A decision handed down by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals this week highlights that traditional insurance policies still provide valuable insurance coverage for data breaches and other cyber-related losses.

On March 2, 2012, a federal district court in Washington, D.C., upheld the right of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to require employers subject to the National Labor Relations Act to display a poster notifying employees of their right to unionize.

Residents of Connecticut and New Jersey who work in the Big Apple are thinking twice about buying homes in the Hamptons this summer in light of a recent decision by the New York Tax Appeals Tribunal that all income earned by a New Canaan, Connecticut, couple was subject to New York State income tax because the husband worked in Manhattan and the couple owned a summer home in Long Island.

A crucial issue facing today’s corporate policyholders is whether the liability insurance policies they already purchased will be available to defend against lawsuits alleging liability based on climate change theories.

The problems highlighted by the spread of SARS-CoV-2 provide a model to illustrate difficulties in the defense of liability claims and insurance issues in the context of new types of losses.

Under the "efficient proximate cause" rule, if the initial event causing a loss is a covered peril, an insurance policy must provide coverage even if a subsequent event in the chain, which also may have caused the loss, is excluded under the policy.

Few who occupy positions in senior management of a publicly traded corporation have shown much interest in their companies’ insurance program.

Are you and your employees protected by your insurance while doing volunteer or pro bono work? The time to check is now.

Just when you thought it was safe to assume that cybersecurity breaches took a serious, but at least predictable path, along comes the Sony Pictures breach.

Zoning ordinances are local laws which govern the use of land and the size and configuration of buildings (generally referred to as "area" regulations outside of New York City) on the land.