2021-2022 Legislative Memos:
Support
S.87 (GIANARIS) Recovery for personal injury while committing a crime
A.1270 (Magnarelli) / S.705 (KAPLAN) Regulation of lawsuit lending
A.2016 (Barrett) / S.678 (HARCKHAM) Permitted persons liability
A.5016 (McDonald) / S.3250 (SANDERS) Interest on judgments
A.5599 (Galef) / S.4848 (REICHLIN-MELNICK) Statements of apology by medical providers
Oppose
S.3516 (BAILEY) Private lawsuits for insurance “bad faith”
A.390 (Braunstein) / S.128 (LIU) Voiding COVID-19 liability agreements
A.680 (Rosenthal) / S.6701 (THOMAS) Relates to enacting NY privacy act
A.1464 (Dinowitz) / S.697 (HOYLMAN) Prohibited arbitration agreements and provisions
A.1490 (Dinowitz) Ex parte interviews in medical liability claims
A.1812 (Dinowitz) / S.933A (GIANARIS) Authorizes anti-trust class-actions
A.2199 (Cruz) / S.473 (HOYLMAN) Relates to interest on judgments
A.2261 (Simon) / S.5394 (PARKER) Environmental conservation private citizens lawsuits
A.2265 (Niou) / S.298 (THOMAS) Cause of action for medical monitoring
A.2495A (Niou) / S.6414 (COMRIE) Consumer and small business protection act
A.2506 (Weinstein) Expansion of false claims
A.2543 (Weinstein) / S.4730 (KRUEGER) Expansion of the false claims act
A.3024 (Dinowitz) Liability for non-settling defendants
A.3315 (Dilan) / S.5735 (COMRIE) Relates to consumer litigation financing
A.3486 (Dinowitz) / S. 5152 (SKOUFIS) Recoveries against third parties
A.4849 (Cruz) / S.3528 (BENJAMIN) Allows for Pre-judgment Interest in Personal Injury Actions
A.5779 (Glick) / S.6027A (BRISPORT) Expansion of damages for companion animals
A.6770 (Weinstein) / S.74 (HOYLMAN) Expansion of wrongful death claims
A.7121 (Kelles) / S. 1119 (SANDERS) Relates to the waiver of sovereign immunity for ADA
A.7285 (Weinstein) / S.6813 (RAMOS) Private rights of action for insurance “bad faith”
A.7769 (Weinstein) / S.7253 (GIANARIS) Consent to jurisdiction
A.8282 (Seawright) / S.5493 (GOUNARDES) Limits judicial reductions in employment claims
Letters:
Summary judgment interest veto letter
Medical interest on judgments support letter to the Governor
Business interest on judgments support to legislature
Business regulations opposition
Business interest on judgments support
Municipal interest on judgments support
COVID reopening liability protections
Labor law 240 moratorium letter
Labor law 240 executive budget
Testimony:
2021 City Council ADA testimony
2021 Interest on judgments testimony
2020-2021 Executive Budget: legislative hearing regarding health and Medicaid
2020 COVID-19 Nursing home hearing testimony
2020 Antitrust hearing testimony
2019-2020 Legislative Memos:
Support
A.7146 (Shimminger) / S.9043 (SANDERS) Interest on judgments reform
A.5991 (Weinstein) / S.52A (HOYLMAN) Anti-SLAPP 2020
A.3737 (McDonald) Scaffold law reform
PPGG Part T (Budget) Judgment interest rate reform
A.7277 (Rosenthal) / S.6361 (CARLUCCI) Liability protection information on first aid opioid antagonists
A.53 (Buchwald) Truth & fairness in asbestos litigation
Oppose
A.11066 (Weinstein) / S.8872 (HOYLMAN) False claims
A.7595 (Weinstein) / S.6352 (KAPLAN) Consent to general jurisdiction
A.2370 (Dinowitz) Ex parte interviews in medical liability claims
A.679C (Niou) / S.2407C (COMRIE) Expansion of the general business law
A.2373 (Dinowitz) / S.6552 (SKOUFIS) Recoveries against third parties
A.5623A (Weinstein) / S.6216 (BAILEY) Private lawsuits for insurance “bad faith”
A.2372 (Dinowitz) / S.6081 (HOYLMAN) Liability for non-settling defendants
A.8526 (Rosenthal) / S. 5642 (THOMAS) Relates to enacting NY privacy act
A.10427 (Kim) / S.8497 (BIAGGI) Repeal of article 30-D section 3082 of New York public health law
A.8304 (Dinowitz) / S.6334A (HOYLMAN) Expands class actions
A.5629 (Weinstein) / S.3634 (BRESLIN) Private rights of action for insurance “bad faith”