Joel Stashenko

March 29, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Insurers have been directed by New York's Department of Financial Services to submit updated disaster response and recovery plans to the state.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

March 29, 2017 | Legaltech News

City Court Judge Leticia Astacio had previously been suspended since her 2016 conviction for driving while intoxicated.

By Joel Stashenko

6 minute read

March 28, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A photograph posted on Facebook showing a judge holding an beverage at a Thanksgiving gathering in which family members were drinking is insufficient to prove that she violated post-release terms of an earlier drunken-driving conviction, a court ruled.

By Joel Stashenko

6 minute read

March 28, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The state's highest court affirmed that a public school district did not have legal authority to challenge the state's finding that the district's method of resolving disputes over disabled students' schooling was proper.

By Joel Stashenko

8 minute read

March 28, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The actions by a robber who said he was armed while gesturing with his hand beneath his clothing could "reasonably" lead his victim to believe he had a gun, the state Court of Appeals held Tuesday.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

March 17, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A $388,026 judgment won by a state court officer for mental anguish she said she suffered by being escorted out of a state courthouse and to her home to surrender her three permitted handguns was upheld by an appeals court Thursday.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

March 16, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Both a state judge and his brother acted like children in allowing their dispute to get physical, but the evidence does not indicate the judge intentionally ran his brother down with an all-terrain vehicle, a Family Court judge has determined.

By Joel Stashenko

8 minute read

March 16, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York's Department of Financial Services is encouraging residential insurers to develop courses for consumers on how to protect their properties from natural disasters and other hazards.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

March 16, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York's governor has signed legislation creating a board to advise the state Department of Financial Services on New York insurance regulations and statutes.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

March 15, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Denying an inmate a mechanized wheelchair has prevented him from having "meaningful access" to the benefits and services he is entitled to behind bars, a federal judge ruled on March 10.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read