Ashley Algazi spoke to Healthcare Risk Management for its HIPAA Regulatory Alert. The article, “Hospital Terminates Employees for Allowing Another To Do Their Jobs,” describes an incident at a Boston hospital in which a data breach was caused by two employees allowing others to do their work.

Ashley outlined the steps healthcare organizations can take to

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Evan H. Krinick, Managing Partner of Rivkin Radler, is pleased to announce that Kaitlyn B. Connor, Anthony Hawkins, Joseph Niczky, and Thomas Paddock have joined the firm as associates.

Kaitlyn B. Connor, of Farmingville, NY, has joined the General Liability Group in the firm’s Uniondale office. In 2024, Connor graduated summa cum laude from Albany

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Gregory Miller and Timothy Gonzalez succeeded in getting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to stop suspending payments to the firm’s client, a clinical laboratory.

In 2022, the client had its Medicare and Medicaid billing privileges suspended due to allegations of fraud. The client’s previous counsel failed to defend against these claims, leading

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Please join us as we discuss the intricacies of the creditor-borrower relationship and best practices to ensure a successful and profitable lending partnership.

Get inside tips from industry professionals on:

• How to assess and establish new creditor relationships

• Proper planning: establishing goals, objectives and timelines for your business

• Steps to maximize success

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Michael Troisi, Laura Gindele and Michelle Klein recently won summary judgment for Sentinel Insurance Company in a hotly contested property damage suit. The case was litigated in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York before Judge Nelson Roman.

The plaintiff, Northway Medical Center Condo, claimed damage to its building from a one-time

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Rivkin Radler is pleased to announce that Mary Aperance was named a 2024 Upstate New York Super Lawyers® Rising Star in the area of Health Care.

Mary of Albany, NY, has been named an Upstate New York Rising Star since 2019. She is an associate in the firm’s Health Services practice group, where she represents

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The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 38 Rivkin Radler attorneys in its 2025 edition. Their names, office locations and practices for which they were recognized, are as follows:

Albany, NY

Richard A. Frankel – Trusts and Estates

Robert H. Iseman – Commercial Litigation, Corporate Compliance Law, Health Care Law, Litigation-Antitrust, Litigation-Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom,

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Today, 22 Rivkin Radler attorneys received a 2025 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch recognition. Their names, office locations and practices for which they were recognized, are as follows:

Attorney Practices  Location Mary Aperance Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Health Care Law, Labor and Employment Law-Management Albany, NY Ana Parikh Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants Hackensack, NJ Dion K.Read More

The 2025 edition of Best Lawyers today recognized Rivkin Radler partners Jill F. Bechtold and Barry I. Levy as “Lawyer of the Year.” Only a single lawyer in each practice and designated metropolitan area can receive this designation, making this a significant and coveted accolade. Lawyers are selected based on highest overall voting averages received

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The Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC) gave Alan Rutkin its coveted Joseph R. Olshan Award at its annual meeting, which took place in Toronto on July 28-August 3, 2024.

Alan, a member of the FDCC’s Board of Directors, received the award in recognition of his efforts as a member of the FDCC’s Communications

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Avi Sinensky and Jenson Wang represented FCF Advisors LLC (FCF), a New York-based asset manager and index provider with approximately $600 million in assets under management, in connection with a definitive agreement pursuant to which FCF is being acquired by Abacus Life, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABL). Based in Orlando, FL, Abacus is an asset manager specializing

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On September 19, 2024, Jeff Kaiser will participate on a panel at Practising Law Institute’s (PLI)’s Life Sciences 2024: Navigating Legal Challenges in Drug and Device Industries program in New York City.

Held at PLI’s NY Conference Center, at 1177 Avenue of the Americas, the program, also available to view online, will cover the relationship

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Evan H. Krinick, Managing Partner of Rivkin Radler, is pleased to announce that Jordan Goldstein, Wallis Granat, and James Nelson have joined the firm as associates.

Jordan Goldstein, of Brooklyn, NY, has joined the Tax Group in the firm’s Uniondale office, where he advises businesses and individuals in a broad range of industries on tax

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Jeremy Honig and Henry Mascia represented a commercial tenant in a landlord-tenant dispute.

The landlord tried to terminate our client’s valuable long-term lease with below-market rent when our client exercised its right to extend the term until 2033. The landlord claimed our client, a limited liability corporation (LLC), had no rights under the lease because

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This month, Stella Lellos led a team of Rivkin Radler lawyers in the sale of client Motors & Armatures, Inc. (MARS) to private equity firm Platinum Equity. MARS, based in Hauppauge, NY, supplies heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration products in the U.S and Canada.

Requiring coordination with Canadian counsel, the deal was structured as

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