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The hourly attorney fee

Kamara Supplies v GEICO Gen. Ins. Co., 2020 NY Slip Op 50414(U)(App. Term 1st Dept. 2000) The holding is simple. If the “policy issue” is

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Covid and the courts

I received an email from someone about my sporadic posts on here and asking if I am alright. To answer, yes, I am alright. I

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CPLR 308(5)

Fontanez v PV Holding Corp., 2020 NY Slip Op 02173 (1st Dept. 2020) This one is interesting as I encounter these 308(5) cases and I

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Waiting can cost you

Aikanat v Spruce Assoc., L.P., 2020 NY Slip Op 02188 (1st Dept. 2020) “The court providently exercised its discretion in declining to vacate the note

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Uber-D-Duber- Whoa!

Matter of Vega (Postmates Inc.–Commissioner of Labor), 2020 NY Slip Op 02094 (2020) Your Uber driver is an employee. Watershed moment I think. “Here, there

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Working remotely

I start by stating the obvious: None us in this profession are generally “essential workers”. We at best redistribute wealth. What does that mean to

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Why are beaches still open?

The epidemiologists are telling us to socially distance. For the introverts among the readers, that is perhaps too easy. For others, it is clearly a

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Handling a pandemic

My friends in Miami-Dade apparently see no problem with the pendamic. While Courts in Palm Beach, Broward and Dade are closed, the streets from what

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The Cornona Virus

Because of what is going on in the world and our collective practices, I want to halt, for a second, the sporadic rolling debate I

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Policy exhaustion, again

Matter of Ameriprise Ins. Co. v Kensington Radiology Group, P.C., 2020 NY Slip Op 00500 (1st Dept. 2020) “Respondent contends that its claims were complete

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DJ following a default

Actual Chiropractic, P.C. v Global Liberty Ins. Co. of N.Y., 2020 NY Slip Op 50185(U)(App. Term 2d Dept. 2020) “On the instant appeal, defendant has

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