January 12, 2024
New York City housing is often jammed into tight spaces. Old houses are carved into several apartments. Not all of them are legal. Alexi Home Design’s property in the Bronx had two official residences on the main floor and an …
January 11, 2024
The new year brought with it an expansion of Connecticut’s workers’ compensation benefits with regard to post-traumatic stress injuries or disorders (PTSD). Prior to January 1, only first responders were eligible for benefits for work-related PTSD; now under a new …
January 10, 2024
Families of the 12 people killed in a Philadelphia row house fire that began in a Christmas tree two years ago sued a pair of city agencies Friday, claiming unsafe conditions on the property violated the victims’ civil rights. The …
January 10, 2024
Record rain falling on melting snow and high winds have caused flooding, power outages and grounded flights across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, including New York, in the US. Through midnight, Manhattan’s Central Park received 1.73 inches (4.4 centimeters) of rain, …
January 8, 2024
MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Flooding from a burst water main at Boston`s Brigham and Women’s Hospital has disrupted services for about 200 patients seeking to have children through in vitro fertilization, leaving some of them devastated. Alexis Goulette, who runs …
January 8, 2024
A New York-based apparel company is entitled to its claim for the full $600,000 limit on its marine cargo insurance policy because the policy was ambiguous as to whether a warehouse fire that destroyed its goods was at an approved …
January 5, 2024
Insurer GEICO has been dealt a setback in its efforts to get back $2.3 million in what it alleges were fraudulent medical and chiropractic service charges it paid to several clinics under New Jersey’s no-fault insurance law. The 14 counts …
January 5, 2024
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the arrest and arraignment of a New Jersey man for allegedly stealing more than $1 million that was intended to be paid to doctors who provided medical care to injured workers covered under …
January 4, 2024
The federal circuit appeals court for the District of Columbia (D.C.) has asked D.C’s highest court for guidance on the standard of negligence in a case involving a noticeably intoxicated man who died after falling from a train platform into …
January 4, 2024
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — One man was fatally stabbed while another was found bleeding to death on New Year`s Day in Atlantic City, the gambling resort that`s currently adding hundreds of new security cameras to the thousands already keeping …