David M. Grill, Evan Schieber and Joshua M. Tare successfully defeated a Brooklyn landlord’s holdover petition seeking to evict a long term medical office tenant, preserving a tenancy and lease with more than ten (10) years remaining on the term.  Prior to retaining Rivkin Radler, the Landlord allegedly served upon the client a Notice to

The New York Court of Appeals issued a decision yesterday that will have wide-ranging impact on issues of reimbursement between health insurers and automobile insurers.  In Aetna Health Plans v. Hanover Insurance Company, the court concluded, by a 5-2 vote, that Aetna, a health insurer, was not entitled to seek reimbursement from Hanover, a no-fault

Frank Tiscione will co-present a webinar for the CLM Insurance Fraud Committee.  The presentation will focus on the detection of organized fraud rings and the prosecution of civil affirmative recovery actions through the use of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Statute.

Over the past several years, Special Investigation Units have dedicated increasing resources to the

Ken Novikoff successfully moved to dismiss the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) claim by Plaintiff, a judgment debtor, against a prominent NYC landlord/tenant law firm who commenced litigation on behalf of its judgment creditor client to collect monies from a restrained bank account.  In a case of first impression within the Second Circuit, Judge

Pia Riverso has been appointed a vice-chair of the Nassau County Bar Association’s Construction Law Committee for the 2016-2017 term.  The Committee provides a forum for discussion of topics related to construction law.

Michael Sirignano and Michelle Bholan prevailed in securing an award on behalf of our corporate client against a large medical practice based on breach of the parties’ agreement.  Specifically, the firm’s client entered into a contract with the medical practice to build and help operate a new in-office physician laboratory.   After the client incurred hundreds of thousands

David M. Grill, Pia E. Riverso and Jeremy Honig secured an order from New York County Supreme Court granting access to a major developer to enter upon adjoining property to install and read monitoring devices and to install and maintain overhead protection as required by the Building Code of the City of New York.  After

A mechanic’s lien, which completely misidentified the owner of the real property, was deemed fatally defective and canceled by the Court.  In the case of In re Jennifer S. Stachel, DMD, PC. Supreme Court, New York County, Index No. 152463/2016, Judge Edmead discharged, as jurisdictionally defective, a mechanic’s lien filed by a contractor that misidentified

David M. Grill and Joshua Tare, partners in the firm’s commercial litigation/real estate practice group, were victorious in the denial of tenants’ complaint for rent overcharge in a proceeding filed by the tenants with the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR).

Tenants’ complaint (“Complaint”) at the DHCR alleged that the rent the

Gregory Miller was profiled in the March 3, 2016 issue of the Long Island Business News’ Who’s Who in Intellectual Property.

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