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 […]
Rochester, N.Y. – Local business leaders are calling for New York to repeal a law they say raises the cost of construction projects. Opponents of the Scaffold Law say insurance companies are forced to charge higher premiums for construction insurance because the law holds builders 100 percent responsible for gravity-related injuries at a work site. […]
The New York Post reports that… Nearly half of the “most ridiculous” lawsuits in the world this year were filed in New York. The Empire State has the dubious distinction of landing four of the top 10 spots in an annual list compiled by the US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform. A Brooklyn federal class-action suit […]
LRANY’s Thomas Stebbins joined David Lesch on Today’s Verdict to talk about lawsuit lending and the high cost of municipal liability in New York City
Wall Street hedge funds are cashing in on New York’s legal feeding frenzy by financing “mass tort litigation” over prescription drugs and medical devices in exchange for a piece of the action when the cases settle, the “Judicial Hellholes” report reveals. The result is an “unfair playing field for defendants,” the report says. Tom Stebbins […]
The New York Daily News ran a story about the renewed push to reform New York’s costly construction liability law, the “Scaffold Law”: Critics of a controversial state law that makes construction companies 100% liable for work-site injuries are pushing for an overhaul of the statute amid ramped-up talks on a massive new train tunnel […]
