Personal Injury, Commercial Real Estate

New Laws Regarding Construction Defects

by Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fairbanks on 5/9/2013

Have you been involved in an accident on a construction site in Hawaii? If so, a ruling from Hawaii’s Court of Appeals may be relevant. ...more

Policyholders Beware: Insurers Relying on Anti-Concurrent Causation Clauses to Defeat Coverage in the Aftermath of Superstorm...

by Joseph Jean, Steven Morris | Lowenstein Sandler LLP on 5/7/2013

To the dismay of most New York business owners who suffered property damage from Superstorm Sandy, insurers are taking the position that only flood losses occurred and businesses that did not pay an additional premium for...more

Massachusetts Mandates Prompt Investigation, Encourages Insurers to Offer Deadline Extensions to Bombing Victims

by Richard Bennett | Cozen O'Connor on 5/3/2013

On Monday of this week, the Massachusetts’s Division of Insurance issued a bulletin mandating prompt investigation of business interruption, property damage and medical insurance claims by policyholders victimized by the...more

City May Not Use “Anti-SLAPP” Motion to Dismiss Claim That City Employee Falsely Told Potential Tenants That Property Owner Was...

by Jon E. Goetz, Jeffrey L. Massey | Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard on 4/24/2013

Property owners often bristle at statements that local government staff make to prospective tenants or purchasers of their property, concerned that they will be scared away by overly harsh or inaccurate speech. When those...more

Supreme Court of Florida Holds That Economic Loss Doctrine Applies Only to Product Liability Cases

by Alison Finnegan, Gordon S. Woodward | Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP on 4/4/2013

In a recent decision likely to significantly expand the use of tort law in areas previously restricted to contract law, the Supreme Court of Florida limited application of the economic loss doctrine to product liability...more

Policyholders Beware: Insurers Relying on Anti-Concurrent Causation Clauses to Defeat Coverage in the Aftermath of Superstorm

by Joseph Jean, Steven Morris | Lowenstein Sandler LLP on 4/2/2013

To the dismay of most New York business owners who suffered property damage from Superstorm Sandy, insurers are taking the position that only flood losses occurred and businesses that did not pay an additional premium for...more

BP Settlement Claim

by Robert Ciotti, Wm. Cary Wright | Carlton Fields on 3/20/2013

After years of litigation, BP Exploration & Production, Inc. and BP America Production Company (collectively, "BP") entered a class-wide settlement ("BP Settlement") that covers most businesses located in the Gulf Coast...more

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Implements New Guidance on Vapor Intrusion

by Larry Jacobs | Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer P.A. on 1/17/2013

On January 16, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) published its new guidance on vapor intrusion, including significant changes to the groundwater vapor intrusion screening levels....more

Wal-Mart Loses $1M Slip and Fall Case

by Law Offices of Cohn & Smith, P.A. on 1/15/2013

Earlier this year, a woman won a $1 million judgment against Wal-Mart after slipping on a wet spot on the floor of the Northside Jacksonville Wal-Mart Supercenter. This is an unusually high recovery for a Florida slip and...more

Possible Injuries Sustained in Negligently Secured Areas

by Law Offices of Nussin S. Fogel on 1/11/2013

Late one night this past summer, a promising college-bound 22 year-old man named Hansell Arias was stabbed to death in a McDonald’s parking lot. At the time the incident was reported, there were no suspects....more

Toxic Tort and Environmental Law Update: January 2013 - Plaintiffs Bear the Burden of Establishing Causation by Competent Expert...

by Sean Patterson | Sedgwick LLP on 1/7/2013

Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently ended 16 years of toxic tort litigation relating to fugitive hexavalent chromium (C6) exposure involving the City of Willits and...more

Go Beyond Google Maps: Powerful Ways to Illustrate Location in Your Case

by Cogent Legal on 1/4/2013

One of the most common items attorneys will put into a brief or a case presentation is an overhead map of the relevant area. Since the dawn of Google, attorneys have grown accustomed to copying and pasting the image of a...more

What To Do If You Were Harmed On Private Or Commercial Property

by Tate Law Group, LLC on 12/19/2012

Last month, Savannah was struck with tragedy when a gunman entered the county fair and opened fire, injuring seven teenagers. With a suspect still at large, responsibility appears to be shifting to the Coastal Empire Fair’s...more

Rogers Towers: Companies: What duty do you have to protect your customers from criminal attacks while on your property?

by Rogers Towers on 11/9/2012

You own an business. During the holiday season a customer comes in your store and is physically assaulted and robbed by a third party. Are you, as the landowner, responsible? The answer: It depends on whether the criminal...more

One of the Most Important Steps In Any Construction or Injury Case

by Cogent Legal on 10/19/2012

During my years of litigation, and equally so now in the field of litigation graphics, I became convinced of the importance of inspecting whatever items and locations that a case revolves around in order to visualize and then...more

Ten Most Important Aspects in Admission Contract of Senior Care Facility

by Qin Qu on 10/12/2012

With increasing supply in the Chinese marketplace of senior care facilities, expertise in the operating management is highly urged. The admission contract is one of the essential parts of this management. Having seen poorly...more

Can The Neighbors Sue the Family Farm Across the Street?

by Sedgwick LLP on 9/12/2012

Our preview of the September term of the Illinois Supreme Court continues with Toftoy v. Rosenwinkel. We all learned about it in law school, and few of us have probably thought of the phrase since: “coming to a...more

Theft of Your Property While Contractors Have Access to Your Facility: Does Your Insurance Cover It?

by McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 8/14/2012

Business owners routinely grant access to company facilities and property to third-parties for many reasons, from cleaning and organizing a warehouse to inspecting and repairing machinery. In the course of these business...more

Overriding Interest - Summer 2012

by K&L Gates LLP on 7/23/2012

In this issue: Abolition of Distress... 1 Events and Announcements... 2 New Lawyers... 3 Cases... 6 Transaction Focus... 7 Excerpt from Abolition of Distress: The Ministry of Justice recently ended...more

Pool Drowning and Water Safety

by Maia L. Bent | Lerners LLP on 7/16/2012

Drowning is one of the leading causes of injury and death to Canadian children. An estimated 54 children, age 14 and under, drown each year in Canada. Another 140 are hospitalized for near drowning, many suffering from brain...more

Church Members Prohibited From Soliciting Donations In Front Of Grocery Store

by Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard on 5/16/2012

Church members can be permanently barred from soliciting donations outside a stand-alone grocery store, under a recent court of appeal ruling (Ralphs Grocery Company v. Missionary Church of the Disciples of Christ (---...more

Criminal Charges and Civil Suits Possible in Deadly Blaze

by Lawyers.com on 4/20/2012

A deadly blaze erupted in an abandoned warehouse in Philadelphia last week, killing two firefighters and injuring two others when a wall fell on them while they were extinguishing the fire. Yesterday the city announced a...more

Illinois Court Considers Liability in Mall Slip and Fall

by Howard Ankin on 4/3/2012

When someone slips and falls in a public place in Illinois such as a mall, in order to prevail in a personal injury lawsuit, the person who fell must establish that the owner of the property was somehow responsible for the...more

California Court Addresses Payment of Self-Insured Retention

by Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP on 1/13/2012

In its recent decision in National Fire Ins. Co. of Hartford v. Federal Ins. Co., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 641 (N.D. Cal. Jan. 4, 2012), the United States District Court for the Northern District of California had occasion to...more

New Westchester County NY - Application for Index Number

by Lawrence McElroen on 1/10/2012

As of January 17, 2012, the following case types must be commenced electronically via the NYSCEF System in Westchester County: • Article 75 (arbitration) • Commercial, including Commercial Division eligible • Consumer...more

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