An industry colleague ran into a situation today where a financial advisor is recommending that the plaintiffs take cash and purchase a SPIA in lieu of receiving a structured settlement and called to ask me for my thoughts. A Single Premium Annuity Contract or "SPIA" is a contract between a person ...

By Elliot Schlissel, New York Criminal Defense / Civil Litigation Attorney The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently ruled that the use of a taser stun gun by a police officer can be considered, under certain circumstances, excessive force which leaves the police officer o ...

Below is a Reuter’s article about the first Bear Stearns High Grade Fund arbitration case won by an investor. John Rich and Ross Intelisano of Rich & Intelisano, LLP were lead trial counsel and Jake Zamansky and Ted Glenn of Zamansky & Associates were co-counsel. "Investor in Defunct Bear Fund Win ...

A friend and client, India born, was telling me about the different prior art search firms he had used. "The Indians are cheap, and you get what you pay for. They find something and they quit. They know nothing about litigation, or U.S. patent laws. They have no concept of story art. They just t ...

It was bad enough that Toyota had recalled hundreds of thousands of newer models of their best-selling Camry and the Corolla and Tundra and certain Lexus models for sudden uncontrolled accelleration. That recall, blamed by Toyota executives as being caused by defective rubber floormats, ...

CMS rescinded a change order affecting the use of place of service ("POS") codes used for the interpretation of diagnostic tests. Originally issued on December 11, 2009, the rescinded Change Request ("CR") led to significant confusion about the POS for reporting the reading of diagnostic tests. ML ...

According to a feature article in this month's InsideCounsel one consultant who helps clients structure alternative fee arrangements "estimates that only about 2% of total legal billings currently are being done on alternative basis - but he contends it’s an increasing trend." That c ...

Touro Law Center has established a new Mortgage Foreclosure and Bankruptcy Clinic that will serve members of the local community and offer students the opportunity to learn about New York foreclosure law and federal bankruptcy practice. To celebrate the establishment of the clinic, Touro Law is host ...

By –       Kurt R. Karst Two recent rulings out of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania stemming from allegations about antitrust violations from the submission of citizen petitions have once again raised the issue of so-called “sham” citizen petitions and, insofa ...

Richard Faulk. "The Queer Case of the Quarelsome Convocation: Allies, Adversaries, Indifference and Exaggeration in Copenhagen" Andrews Litigation Reporter 30.11 (2009). They have been at a great feast of languages, and stol’n the scraps. ... O, they have liv’d long on the alm ...