TRAINING YOUR STAFF FOR AN ACTIVE SHOOTER SITUATION An active shooter is an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area. To best prepare your staff for an active shooter situation, create an emergency action plan (EAP) and conduct training exercises. Together, the EAP and training exercises…
Hurricane Harvey is the strongest storm to make landfall in the United States since Hurricane Charley in 2004. News of the damage it has caused to southeastern Texas is prompting people to help in whatever ways they can. Unfortunately, there are dishonest people who prey upon people’s good intentions, creating fake charity campaigns to exploit…
Good news for Waldorf Risk Solutions’ Clients: In collaboration with Praesidium, Waldorf Clients are now eligible for Praesidium services at substantially reduced costs! Who is Praesidium? Praesidium is the national leader in organizational abuse risk management, with more than 25 years of experience and serving over 4,000 clients in the United States and seven…
Multiple competing bills have been introduced in the upper and lower state legislative houses regarding efforts by the New York State Legislature to alter or remove the civil statute of limitation with respect to childhood sexual abuse. Some of the main differences between them being whether a given bill provides for a civil litigation “lookback”…
The Arch Diocese of NY will be mortgaging some of their properties in order to create a victims fund for Sexual Abuse claims. The Archdiocese owns several properties throughout New York, specifically land underneath the Lotte NY Palace Hotel and the Villard Houses on Madison Avenue to be the first properties to be petitioned for…
The Statute of Limitations in Child Sexual Abuse cases vary from state to state. Many states are pushing to change current laws by proposing to extend the time frame a victim can bring a civil lawsuit forward from when the incident occurred, as well as to provide a look-back period for child sex abuse victims…
In August 2016, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Graduate Students working for private colleges are employees. The ruling overturned the Brown 2004 decision stating that teaching and research assistants were primarily students and not workers and that their work is a component of their education. Yet many grad students find themselves in teaching…
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed legislation in his 2017 policy agenda to remove the statute of limitation on criminal sex abuse cases and extend the time-frame a victim can bring a civil lawsuit to 50 years from when the incident occurred. Currently, a civil lawsuit can be brought until a person’s 23rd birthday. The…
Our Second Annual Risk Summit for Educators and Not-for-Profit Organizations was a successful and informative discussion citing instructive content focusing on the best practices of compliance and crises prevention. Guests included Underwriters, Claims analysts, Intermediaries, and clients which created engaging dialogue and insight to the challenges facing Non-profits and Educators in this ever-changing cyber security environment. To…
By: James G. Ryan, Partner-In-Charge of the Commercial Litigation and Education Litigation Department at Cullen and Dykman LLP, and Cynthia A. Augello and Hayley B. Dryer, Associates at Cullen and Dykman LLP, current members of the NCBA Education Law Committee. Colleges and universities have an obligation to make their campuses a safe place for all…
