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Jury Trials and Jury Service Suspended in New York Amid Rising COVID-19 Cases
PMT continues to track events of importance to our business partners. On November 13, 2020, New York State’s Chief Administrative Judge issued a directive revising statewide operational practices in all trial courts throughout the state that will effectively...
Case by Case: Veterinarians Face New Liability Rule for Animal Attacks
By Lawrence N. Rogak. New York’s Court of Appeals established a new rule as of October 22nd, 2020 for the liability of veterinarians for animal attacks which occur in their facilities: that a court or jury must determine whether they were negligent under the...
Risk Management 2020:
Hot Topics and Cool Solutions
Pillinger Miller Tarallo and St. John’s Tobin Center for Executive Education, its Maurice R. Greenberg School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science (GSRM) proudly present our inaugural conference: Risk Management 2020: Hot Topics and Cool Solutions. In...
Battle Tough and Trial Ready: PMT Gets Another Defense Verdict
By Jeffrey T. Miller. Court: Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge: Susan I. Schulman Case Type: Slip and Fall/Construction Caption: Hillary Jay v. Tony DePaul & Son Index No.: 1906-07026 Decision Date: October 1, 2020 Decision: Defense Verdict Like everyone...
Fall Workers’ Compensation Updates – New Jersey
By Charlene Stewart Barnaba. Covid-19 Presumption for Essential Workers We previously reported that there was a proposed Bill in the Legislature which intended to create a rebuttable presumption that all COVID-19 infections contracted by essential employees were work...
PMT Always on Your Side – PMT Gives Clients Peace of Mind with Our Claims Monitoring and Litigation Management Practice Group
An area of PMT’s practice that greatly assists our clients and seemingly under the radar is our Litigation Monitoring Group. Our Litigation Monitoring Group conducts oversight of general liability, insurance coverage, automobile, casualty construction-related,...
HOT TOPICS – Ginsburg’s Lasting Green Impact
By Marc H. Pillinger. After a feverish battle with cancer, in the late evening of September 18th 2020, Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. Ginsburg leaves a lasting legacy on environmental jurisprudence. Ginsburg in her opinion in the 2000 case, Friends of the Earth v....
NY Governor Suspends Statute of Limitations
By John A. Risi. October 2020 – Update New York Extends the Tolling of Statute of Limitations Until November 3rd…with a Twist Beginning on March 20, 2020, New York State, by way of gubernatorial executive orders, has tolled the Statute of Limitations for the...
COVID-19 Budget Cuts Will Restrict Access to Courts
By Kenneth A. Krajewski. On September 29, 2020, New York’s Unified Court System Chief Administrative Judge, Lawrence K. Marks, issued a Memorandum to the presiding and administrative judges of the State’s Appellate Divisions, and Court of Appeals Chief Judge Hon....
All Your Fault: Iconic Department Store Blames Insurers as It Files for Bankruptcy and Closes Down
By Jeffrey T. Miller. The pandemic has not been kind to retailers as we all know. Because of the dearth of shoppers, numerous well-known retailers such as Lord & Taylors, Neiman Marcus, Pier 1, and Brooks Brothers, among others have encountered financial...