The New York Court of Appeals, in Platek v. Town of Hamburg, has reversed an appellate court’s decision and ruled that a water damage exclusion in a homeowners’ insurance policy precluded coverage for a claim that the insureds’ basement was flooded after a water main ruptured.  In so ruling, the Court also rejected the plaintiffs’

Workers’ Compensation insurance carriers face a variety of employer schemes intended to defraud them out of insurance premiums in one way or another. After briefly discussing the requirements of New York’s Workers’ Compensation Law (WCL), this column explores some of the methods disreputable companies sometimes use to avoid their obligations. It concludes with a discussion

U.S. Supreme Court Rules that Time Spent to Undergo Antitheft Security Screening is Not Compensable under the FLSA

Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc., a company that provides warehouse staffing to Amazon.com throughout the United States, required its employees to undergo a security screening before leaving the warehouse at the end of each day. During this screening,

New Jersey legislators advanced a bill to expand notification requirements in the event of a data breach affecting New Jersey residents. The bill, Assembly No. 3146, passed on December 15, 2014, by a vote of 75–0 and was referred to the Senate Commerce Committee where it has not yet been addressed. The Assembly bill seeks

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION – SECTION OF LITIGATION – MASS TORTS  

The Carnaby v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. action involving purported toxic workplace exposures in France presents something of a new strategic paradigm for the U.S. jurisdictional restrictions evolving out of the Daimler/Kiobel/Goodyear Dunlop line of cases. Carnaby v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., No.

Plan Administrator Did Not Err In Requiring Plaintiff to Provide Objective Evidence of Her Fibromyalgia

The plaintiff in this case alleged that her health began to deteriorate beginning in early 2009, with symptoms that included debilitating pain and fatigue. By the end of that year, according to the plaintiff, these symptoms forced her to leave her

The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to hear Allstate Ins. Co. v. Northfield Medical Center,1 which has consequences for insurers across the country seeking to deter insurance fraud schemes intended to avoid the prohibition on the corporate practice of medicine. The issue before the court is whether a health-care lawyer (who was not admitted

One of the significant legal issues facing an insurance company that brings a  federal lawsuit to recover allegedly improper payments that it has made to a  health care provider under an employee benefit plan is whether the carrier’s  complaint is preempted by the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of  1974 (ERISA). A finding of

Sean McAloon, a member of the Litigation & Appeals Practice Group, was a contributor to Recent Developments in Property Insurance Law, which has been published in the 2015 Annual Survey of the American Bar Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal.

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