The Patton Boggs law firm is a national leader in public policy and related areas. We present their thinking on what faces us as citizens and business leaders. S.A. To put matters in perspective: Unless current law is amended, all of the Bush tax cuts will expire at the end of the year, as will […]
When Governor Cuomo announced appointments to three commissions – NYS 2100, NYS Respond, and NYS Ready – the groups charged with undertaking a review and making recommendations to “overhaul New York State’s emergency preparedness and response capabilities, as well as examining how to improve the strength and resilience of the state’s infrastructure to better withstand […]
It’s probably a good thing that the NY Insurance Law prohibits advertising the existence or terms of a life guaranty fund in the sale or solicitation of life insurance products. The statutory caps for the NY life funds are fully committed to the $1.6 billion deficit of Executive Life Insurance Company of New York (ELNY), […]
On November 19, 2012, the New York Court of Appeals – the highest court of the State of New York, apparently strengthened the rights of policyholders as against their insurance brokers. In American Building Supply Corp. v. Petrocelli Group, the plaintiff-insured was required by its lease to obtain general liability insurance in the m i […]
McLaurin Fields v First Liberty Ins. Corp. Mildred Collins was the owner of the property located at 21 Tilney Avenue in Medford, New York and had a homeowners policy of insurance with the defendant until her death on July 28, 2008. The homeowners policy was renewed and issued to the Estate of Mildred Collins effective […]
After the election, the victors are exulting that ObamaCare is here to stay, and that the “best is yet to come” as their glorious plans to “fundamentally transform America” can proceed. In their intellectual arrogance, the power- seekers have left a key variable out of their calculations: human behavior. Their predictions, for example, of increased […]
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