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An upstate woman, Tammy Cleveland is suing DeGraff Memorial Hospital in North Tonawanda for malpractice for letting her husband die…twice. WHEC TV reports that Michael Cleveland was first pronounced dead of a heart attack on October 10, 2014. Cleveland’s husband collapsed of an apparent heart attack in a grocery store just outside of Buffalo. He…

Body donation is also called an anatomical gift. Simply put, body donation is donating you full body for medical research after your death. According to Findlaw.com, The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA) governs the donation of cadavers for science. A whole body donation is a donation of a body without the removal of organs for…

Electronic cigarettes are ubiquitous in most NYC delis and are quite popular in the metropolitan area. However, they can pose a danger and it has nothing to do with the smoke. They can explode. Just this year, exploding electronic have resulted in three recent lawsuits on California this year alone. The U. S. Fire Administration…

At the dawn of the digital world, something happened that most didn’t notice. Computer software that you paid money for was no longer yours. You didn’t own it, you only licensed it from the company and they had limitations as to what you could do with it. Now that concept has spread to all aspects…

Once you file a Bankruptcy Petition, the law protects you from continued creditor harassment. AFederal Court awarded a debtor $63,000 in compensatory damages and $63,000 in punitive damages when a debt collector continued to harass a debtor after he filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy. This case, In Re Burch v. Bank of America decided on July…

Shopping for a new home can be complicated and stressful. Frequently, over the last 30 years, working as a real estate attorney, people have asked me: “Hey, Jeff, where do I start?” The first question I ask is, How much can you afford to spend? This is a two-part question: How much cash do you…

The estate of the late Walter Becker, co-founder of the band Steely Dan, is being sued by band mate Donald Fagen over an agreement the two made in 1972, months before their debut album Can’t Buy a Thrill was released. The written agreement stated that if one of the two died or left the band,…

Connecticut police arrested the husband in his wife’s murder when wife’s Fit bit data contradicted the husband story. According to CNN, in an apparent attempt to establish an alibi, the husband claimed his wife was shot by an intruder at 9:05 am. Police became suspicious when they retrieved the wife’s Fit bit from her wrist.…

Yesterday we wrote about a NY Times investigation about the privatization of the judicial system and why you should stay away from arbitration clauses. Well, to flesh that out a bit more, let’s look the recent Equifax hack in which millions of people’s personal information was stolen. To add insult to injury, Equifax has an…

In the last ten years business in the U.S. have turned to arbitration to create an alternate system of justice where “rules tend to favor businesses, and judges and juries have been replaced by arbitrators who commonly consider the companies their clients.” Those are the conclusions after a New York Times investigation found a disturbing…