Josefa Velasquez

October 04, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York is facing federal funding cuts to hospitals that could require the state to revisit its roughly $150 billion financial plan, even as the debate over the future of the Affordable Care Act subsides in Congress after failure to repeal and replace earlier this year.

By Josefa Velasquez

4 minute read

October 04, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York's Court of Appeals is set to review the first in a potential steady stream of suits challenging the broad application of a law shielding certain documents in the personnel files of police officers and other public employees from public exposure.

By Josefa Velasquez and B. Colby Hamilton

11 minute read

October 02, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A pilot program for centralized off-hours arraignments is scheduled to begin this month in four upstate New York counties, Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks announced Monday.

By Josefa Velasquez

3 minute read

September 29, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The state Department of Financial Services issued a letter to insurers Friday warning them against imposing coverage limits on medication used to treat opiate overdoses.

By Josefa Velasquez

3 minute read

September 29, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz of the Bronx was named head of the Judiciary Committee by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, replacing longtime Judiciary Chair Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein of Brooklyn.

By Josefa Velasquez

2 minute read

September 28, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Five medical marijuana companies that were recently awarded a license by the state are asking the state Supreme Court in Albany to reject a California company's effort to file an amicus brief in their lawsuit against the state.

By Josefa Velasquez

4 minute read

September 28, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The Department of Financial Services has subpoenaed Equifax over the massive data breach that put the personal information of 143 million Americans, including 8 million New Yorkers, at risk, the department's head told a state Senate hearing Thursday. Data breach notices received by the state climbed 60 percent last year over 2015.

By Josefa Velasquez

3 minute read

September 27, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The state Department of Financial Services, answering the federal government's motion to dismiss, argues that it has standing to sue the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency over its proposal to regulate fintech companies with a special-purpose bank charter, calling it an "unabashed power grab."

By Josefa Velasquez

4 minute read

September 26, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A 12-member state Drinking Water Quality Council is slated to meet Monday on Long Island to consider setting maximum contaminant levels for New York public water supplies in the absence of federal rulemaking for certain chemicals.

By Josefa Velasquez

4 minute read

September 26, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The New York Dept. of Financial Services announced that it has approved a new banking development district in Oneida County to expand banking in the low income community.

By Josefa Velasquez

2 minute read