In their Trial Practice column, Robert S. Kelner and Gail S. Kelner of Kelner & Kelner write that although comparative negligence, no matter how extreme, is not a defense to liability under Labor Law ...

Conventional wisdom dictates that a lawyer being sued for legal malpractice in New York will rarely win a motion to dismiss based on lack of causation. Nevertheless, the case law suggests that a ...

Yesterday’s argument in County of Los Angeles v. Mendez was, in a word, unsatisfying. The question of governmental liability for a law enforcement shooting of innocent individuals is extremely ...

(CN) - The Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed jury instructions on negligence that resulted in a judgment of more than $183,000 for a train engineer who permanently injured his hand while working for ...

Back in September, I floated an idea about or moral judgments: that intervening causes between an action and outcome could serve to partially mitigate their severity. This would owe itself to the ...

Donald Papcsy, a partner with Papcsy Janosov Roche. Courtesy photo.[/caption] A pedestrian severely injured when he was struck by a minivan that crashed in a Bridgeport intersection in 2014 has ...