In California, a new ballot initiative, the Fairness for Injured Patients Act (FIPA), could turn the current malpractice lawsuit rules on its head. Since 1975, California has mandated that damages in medical malpractice lawsuits be capped at $250,000. This week, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber officially certified this initiative... Read More »
A New York couple has filed a lawsuit against the city of Buffalo, its police commissioner, and other agencies after they were victims of a home raid carried out by armed bounty hunters. The raid happened last month at a property owned by the victim, Jake Reinhardt. The property is... Read More »
If Nostradamus were alive today, Republicans would be lining up to ask him how their votes on former President Trump’s conviction in the Senate impeachment trial would affect voters. And the expert pundits would likely be right behind them. Every newspaper, magazine and political talk show commentator has opinions, a... Read More »
A New York money manager is facing charges of conspiracy and fraud. Authorities say he was running a 1.8 billion dollar fraud operation in which he defrauded investors in what they have called a Ponzi-like scheme. David Gentile, 54, of New York was the chief executive of GPB Capital Holdings... Read More »
In New Jersey, a restaurant owner pleaded guilty to bankruptcy fraud that dates back to when he filed in February 2017. His name is Victor Osario and he is 53 years old from Cresskill in Bergen County. When filing for bankruptcy three years ago, he did not mention his ownership... Read More »
One of the nation's largest student loan servicers has settled a lawsuit that was filed by Massachusetts' attorney general Maura Healey. The lawsuit was filed in 2017 against Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA). This semi-federal agency services roughly $355 billion in federal student loans. However, the servicer has been... Read More »
The H-1B visa program, used by highly-skilled foreign workers, was the recipient of a temporary ban proposed by the Trump administration last October. On January 8, 2021, the Trump administration finalized a rule that would have eliminated the H-1B visa lottery altogether for the coming season, replacing the lottery with... Read More »
Popular trading app Robinhood is under scrutiny yet again after the family of a 20-year-old who committed suicide last June filed a lawsuit against the trading platform. Alexander Kearns was a college student who used money he had saved from his lifeguarding job to trade on the stock market by... Read More »
Settlement Washington Football Team employees produced secret lewd videos from outtakes of the 2008 and 2010 swimsuit calendar shoots. The former cheerleaders involved filed suit. Now they’ve reached confidential settlements with the team. Cindy Minniti, an attorney representing the team and its owner, Daniel Snyder, said “The matter has been... Read More »
Shutdowns because of the COVID-19 pandemic have caused many people to lose their jobs, which could cause a large number of people to file for bankruptcy in 2021. As of September 2020, the number of bankruptcy filings has been lower than in 2019. According to Forbes.com, this could have to... Read More »
Americans are fascinated by the lives of the rich and famous. But few people actually know what they are really like. And those “lucky ones” usually have to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDA) that carry heavy consequences for telling all. Melania Trump’s ex-aide is one of them. She wrote a book... Read More »
The Justice Department dropped its legal challenge of California’s net neutrality law in the Eastern District Court of California on Monday. This move could represent a shift back to the Obama-era policy of equal access to the internet. The FCC’s interim leader Jessica Rosenworcel said, “When the FCC, over my... Read More »
Fani Willis, the District Attorney of Georgia’s Fulton County, has opened a criminal investigation into allegations of election fraud in the state. Willis has shared a letter with state officials that explains the investigation will probe into the details of attempts made to influence the 2020 Georgia elections. Although the... Read More »
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo became the national face of specific information when COVID-19 hit, offering daily briefings that were fluid as the pandemic data kept shifting. As the deaths of nursing home patients across the US and in New York quickly became the most prominent fatality statistic, Cuomo’s administration... Read More »
On October 21, 2020, Trevor Till – class president, drum major, lead in the Seneca Illinois High School production of The Music Man, and a gifted pole vaulter, committed suicide, for reasons his mother, Lisa Mara Moore, termed “COVID isolation.” Cut off from school for the last months of his... Read More »
