LCBF has been retained by a New York City property manager to defend several suits in Bronx County brought by plaintiffs who claim to have been seriously injured by exposure to the Legionella bacteria, resulting in Legionnaires’ Disease. Drawing upon our decades...
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) has been scrutinizing audits of employee benefit programs, focusing on audit reports that were prepared by small accounting firms. The DOL has reported that they found deficiencies in 75.8% of audit reports prepared by firms...
LCBF recently tried to a successful conclusion a Nassau County case in which a company sued its accounting firm for almost $1 million after its bookkeeper embezzled $684,000 by putting her husband on the payroll. The CPA firm had performed accounting for the defendant...
After the criminal case against him was dismissed, plaintiff filed a civil rights lawsuit against the arresting detectives in the Southern District of New York claiming that he was wrongfully arrested and that the detectives exercised unreasonable use of force,...
In Nussbaum v. Metro-North Commuter R.R., 2015 WL 859565 (2d Cir. 2015), affm 994 F. Supp. 2d 483 (S.D.N.Y. 2014), the Second Circuit restated the general law that a plaintiff who alleges that a defendant created a dangerous condition must prove, not only that the...
