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New York Workers’ Comp Board to Require Video for All Testifying in Virtual Hearings

Dec 9 2025 // Beginning February 2, 2026, all claimants and lay witnesses testifying in virtual hearings before the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board will be required to appear and testify by video with their faces fully...

Archdiocese of New York Pledges $300M to Mediate Clergy Sex Abuse Claims

Dec 9 2025 // The Archdiocese of New York announced it is establishing a $300 million fund that it intends to use to pay for a global settlement of most of the 1,300 lawsuits it still faces from victims of clergy sexual abuse.The...

New York Times Sues Perplexity AI for ‘Illegal’ Copying of Content

Dec 5 2025 // The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Friday, claiming that the artificial intelligence startup was copying, distributing and displaying millions of its articles without permission.The startup has...

Wealthy County in New York Must Pay $112 Million Over Immigrant Rights Violations

Dec 5 2025 // New York’s Suffolk County, home to the ultra-wealthy Hamptons and the bucolic North Fork, must pay $112 million in damages to immigrants after a court ruled that their detention in local jails violated their...

Instacart Sues New York City Over Worker Pay, Tipping Laws

Dec 4 2025 // Instacart sued New York City on Tuesday, seeking to block enforcement of five laws affecting the grocery delivery company, including higher minimum pay for app-based workers and greater disclosures to customers about...

Amazon Wins Injunction Against New York Law on Labor Relations

Dec 1 2025 // A federal judge last Wednesday granted Amazon.com a preliminary injunction to block the New York State Public Employment Relations Board from enforcing a new state law that the online retailer considers an attempt to...

New York Now Requires Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure

Dec 1 2025 // New York Attorney General Letitia James recently issued a consumer alert encouraging New Yorkers to report companies not disclosing their use of algorithmic pricing, as a new state law requires.Algorithmic pricing allows...

Federal Jury Awards $80 Million to Estate of NY Man Wrongfully Convicted of Murder

Nov 25 2025 // A federal jury awarded $80 million Wednesday to the estate of a Buffalo man whose conviction in a 1976 murder was overturned after he spent nearly a quarter century in prison.Darryl Boyd, one of the group of Black...

Another Fire Ignites at Ford Aluminum Supplier Novelis in New York

Nov 20 2025 // Another fire ignited on Thursday at Novelis’ aluminum plant in Oswego, New York, that supplies Ford’s lucrative F-150 truck line, about two months after a blaze halted much of the facility’s...

Reuters EXCLUSIVE: Shell Challenges NY Arbitration Loss on Venture Global LNG

Nov 12 2025 // Shell has challenged its defeat in an arbitration case against U.S. liquefied natural gas producer Venture Global in the New York Supreme Court, a legal filing seen by Reuters shows, weeks after rival BP won a similar $1...

New York City Firefighter Dies After Responding to a Five-Alarm Blaze

Nov 11 2025 // New York City firefighter died Saturday after suffering a medical episode while battling a five-alarm fire at a Brooklyn apartment building, authorities said.Patrick D. Brady, 42, went into cardiac arrest while working on...

New York Law Requiring Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Goes Into Effect

Nov 10 2025 // New York Attorney General Letitia James has issued a consumer alert encouraging New Yorkers to report companies not disclosing their use of algorithmic pricing, as a new state law requires.Algorithmic pricing allows...

New York State Report Calls Weather Consequences ‘Dire and Growing’

Nov 5 2025 // Severe weather events are increasing in New York and certain types of events, including thunderstorm-related damaging wind and flash flooding, are also increasing, according to a new report from State Comptroller Thomas P....

Meatpacker JBS to Pay $1.1 Million to Settle New York Climate Suit

Nov 4 2025 // JBS SA, the world’s largest meatpacker, has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit by the state of New York over allegations the company misled the public about reducing the impact of its operations on the...

Judge Dismisses Texas Challenge to New York Abortion Shield Law

Nov 3 2025 // A New York judge dismissed a legal challenge Friday from Texas seeking to enforce a more than $100,000 civil judgment against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a Dallas-area woman in an early test of the...

New York Hospital Insurer Files for Bankruptcy, Citing Child Sex Abuse Claims

Nov 3 2025 // A Bermuda captive that insured several New York hospitals affiliated with a leading Jewish not-for-profit organization says it is insolvent, citing millions of dollars in child sex abuse claims brought against it under the...

Prediction Markets Firm Kalshi Sues NY Gambling Regulator Alleging Overreach

Oct 30 2025 // Predictions marketplace Kalshi Inc. sued New York’s gaming commission, saying the state agency is overstepping its authority by attempting to regulate sports-betting operations that fall exclusively under federal...

GEICO Sues Medical Firms in Florida, NY Over Alleged No-Fault Auto Fraud

Oct 23 2025 // GEICO is taking aggressive action against medical firms in Florida and New York, accusing them of leading multimillion-dollar, no-fault auto insurance fraud schemes.In a lawsuit filed this month in federal court in Tampa,...

NY Insurance Regulator Warns of Cyber Threats From Third-Party Service Providers

Oct 23 2025 // The New York State financial services regulator warns insurance companies, banks and other financial services institutions of the cyber risks associated with the growing use of third-party service providers (TPSP).Exposure...

New York Construction Firm to Pay $1.4M to Workers for Violating Their Rights

Oct 21 2025 // A New York City construction firm will pay $1.5 million to settle charges that it violated state workers’ compensation laws, retaliating against injured workers, and failing to address sexual harassment in the...