A former TV news staffer’s pioneering lawsuit over bedbug bites she received at her office has been thrown out by a judge who said workers can’t necessarily hold their employers’ landlords responsible for injuries on the job. Jane Clark’s lawyer …
A neighbor says star chef and restaurateur David Bouley’s trash is really bugging him. A Bouley eatery’s food storage and garbage are subjecting the building next door to insects, odors and “seeping black ooze” coming through a basement floor, building …
A 42-year-old upstate New York man is hospitalized after the 55-gallon drum he was cutting up exploded and shot into the air, hitting him on the head. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office says Ricky Poore was using a cutting torch …
A New York City woman who was getting $850 a month in alimony because she was supposedly disabled and unable to work had her payments slashed after her ex-husband spotted online photos of her belly dancing. Brian McGurk went to …
A man who helped victims of a truck crash on one of New York’s busiest highways has been charged with insurance fraud. Police say Gabriel Hernandez wrongly claimed he’d been injured in the Sept. 22 accident on the Major Deegan …
In 2008, a total of 6,378 New York QCs were referred to NICB from its member insurance companies compared with 6,726 in 2009 and 7,026 in 2010. That represents a 10 percent increase in 2010 from 2008 numbers as reported …
Valerie D. Henry, 38, of Fort Drum, was arrested and charged with insurance fraud and falsifying business records after purportedly losing two diamond rings. New York State Insurance Department Frauds Bureau investigators reported that Henry filed an insurance claim with …
The New York Court of Appeals has added an amendment, 22 NYCRR Part 522, allowing special registration of attorneys in good standing located in other U.S. jurisdictions to act as in-house counsel for New York-based organizations. The amendment, effective April …
State police are launching a fifth installment of “Operation Hang Up,” a four-day enforcement effort on the New York State Thruway aimed at motorists who violate the state’s ban on the use of hand-held cell phones while driving. Troop T, …
A federal jury found that Toyota Motor Corp. isn’t responsible for a 2005 crash that the driver blamed on the floor mat or the electronic throttle, in the first case to go to trial since automaker recalled millions of its …