The Myth Quick! What are the rules for bifurcation of personal injury trials in the First and Second Departments? If you answered that the former defaults to unification and the latter bifurcation, you’d be espousing the...
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December 29, 2022
Hoylman, Half-Truths and the Grieving Families Act (December 2022)
In reading state Sen. Brad Hoylman’s Dec. 22 commentary in the New York Law Journal, one can only find it amazing how the politicians of the state with the highest tort cost per household in the nation manage to keep...
December 1, 2022
The Snake Attack Phenomenon: The Courts Must Stop Overlooking and Facilitating The Continued Poisoning of Our Jury System (December 2022)
Our jury system has been under assault from an ever-growing tidal wave of improper trial tactics that have no place in our court rooms, but have directly triggered the last decade’s cascade of nuclear verdicts.i These...
Historically, in employee injury cases where the main defendants’ assets and coverage are insufficient to satisfy the potential money judgment, and where an unlimited source of insurance monies exist in the form of the...
July 16, 2021
Inefficiency in The Courthouse: The Nonsense in Withholding Settlement Amounts From Non-Settling Tortfeasors (July 2021)
Authored and researched by Tim Capowski with assistance from former colleague(s). A vexatious area of law is the faux confidentiality afforded to settlement amounts between settling plaintiffs and settling tortfeasors, as...