GENEVA, N.Y. (WHEC) — On Monday, one of the most exclusive wineries in the Finger Lakes got sued because of its website. The person suing Belhurst Estate Winery in Geneva is also suing 124 other places, and it’s all because of their websites. The plaintiff’s name is Thomas Olsen. He is blind and lives in […]
LRANY’s Tom Stebbins had a letter to the editor published in Crain’s New York Business this week: As New York health insurers request higher rates (“Health insurers request 8.4% average rate hike”), New Yorkers should be aware that the price of medical professional liability insurance is a hidden driver of these costs. For certain specialties, […]
New York’s Legislature this week approved a poorly wrought proposal to insert an environmental rights section into the state Constitution, the so-called “Green Amendment.” To be adopted, the bill will need to be passed by two consecutive Legislatures, then OK’d by voter referendum. But if lawmakers truly care about the future of the Empire State, […]
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — More and more lawsuits are getting filed against restaurants, malls, wineries and art galleries for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. News10NBC found one man responsible for more than a hundred of them. Our investigation started Tuesday. Now, News10NBC is finding out why the system allows all these lawsuits to happen. The bottom […]
Lawmakers in New York passed a series of bills Tuesday aimed at protecting the state’s environment and the health of its residents, including the first step to a constitutional amendment that could have major legal implications for companies labeled as polluters. The constitutional amendment, which wouldn’t become law until 2022 at the earliest, could open […]
Lawsuit against TGI Friday’s over potato skins likely lawyer-driven, legal reform group says By John Suayan | Apr 12, 2019 A prolific class action lawyer has sued TGI Fridays over its potato skins, alleging she was deceived by the packaging. Attorneys C.K. Lee and Anne Seelig with the law firm Lee Litigation Group PLLC, of New York, filed […]
WRITE ON: Wineries face ADA website woes By MICHAEL J. FITZGERALD Apr 12, 2019 Spring in the Finger Lakes usually prompts lengthy conversations among winery owners about weather, prospects for the growing season and when tourists will start packing tasting rooms. But this spring many of those same owners added a potentially costly and worrisome […]
Council Speaker Corey Johnson has targeted a sacred cow in his plan to reform the MTA: New York’s much-maligned Scaffold Law, which critics say boosts insurance costs for transit projects and on other construction in New York State by hundreds of millions of dollars. The Scaffold Law assigns 100 percent liability on owners and contractors […]
WHAM) – New lawsuits filed in federal court last week target two Finger Lakes wineries, accusing them of having websites that are not accessible to people who are blind or visually-impaired. 13 WHAM News first reported last fall on the rash of lawsuits being filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Now the lawsuits, and […]
There is a tidal wave of class-action food labeling litigation flooding federal courts right now, led by lawyers looking to cash in on subjective interpretations of marketing terms like “natural” and “healthy.” A U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform study found 425 active cases between 2015 and 2016 compared to just 19 in 2008. A fifth were […]