Each year, the Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York’s Government Affairs program produces a Common Sense Agenda which outlines our policy priorities. Memos of opposition or support for specific legislative proposals can be found below.
2017-2018 Legislative Bill Memos:
Support
S.2511A (Bonacic) / A.10964 (Buchwald), Honesty in Asbestos Litigation, 6/11/2018
S.2795 (Gallivan) / A.2148 (Morelle), Scaffold Law Reform, 1/31/2017
S.3911-B (Ortt) / A.8653-A (Magnarelli), Regulation of lawsuit lending, 6/6/2018
S.6876 (Akshar) / A.5624 (McDonald), Scaffold Law Reform, 12/15/2017
S.4755 (Griffo) / A.6965 (Schimminger), Interest Rate on Judgments Reform, 4/19/2017
S.7728 (Hannon) / A.11168 (Abate), Affidavit of merit and expert witness disclosure, 6/18/2018
Oppose
A.9031 (Dinowitz), Recovery from a third party defendant, 4/17/2018
S.243 (DeFrancisco) / A.9030 (Dinowitz), Ex-parte conversations, 2/12/2018
S.4868-A (Bonacic) Relates to an opposing party’s statements, 2/12/2018
S.5109 (Lanza) / A.1855 (Moya), Construction insurance reporting mandate, 4/19/2017
S.5889 (Bonacic) / A.5918 (Weinstein), Consent to General Jurisdiction, 3/3/2017
S.167 (Rivera) / A.5439 (Weprin), Expansion of the Martin Act, 3/3/2017
S.435 (Peralta) Lawsuits for certain business practices, 6/1/2017
