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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] Colleges and universities have...
Last month, the U.S. Senate passed a version of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a bill that encourages companies to share information about cyber attacks and data breaches with the federal government. The bill includes the most sweeping cyber security regulations ever put forth...
