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August 14, 2006
Partner Richard Quadrino was tapped as a source for an article in Business Insurance magazine concerning industry trends concerning the use of discretionary clauses in group disability, health and life…
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July 21, 2006
Partner Richard Quadrino was featured in a follow up story regarding the action by the New York Insurance Department on discretionary clauses in group insurance policies. A copy of the article in…
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June 15, 2006
When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit initially determined, in Sullivan v. LTV Aerospace and Defense Co., that jury trials were not available to plan participants and beneficiaries in Employee…
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April 20, 2006
New state mandate halts insurance companies from acting as judge and jury. The bad part: expect to pay more for benefits. A boulder thrown into the small pond of employee benefits law will soon ripple…
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April 09, 2006
NEW YORK – Under a de novo review, a federal judge on Feb. 13 ruled that an ERISA-governed disability insurer that terminated benefits to a claimant with multiple medical problems acted arbitrarily.…
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April 07, 2006
Evan Schwartz, partner at Quadrino Schwartz in Garden City, N.Y., was recently quoted on the front page of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association's website, commenting on the impact of the New York…
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April 01, 2006
NEW YORK – The New York Insurance Department on March 27 issued Circular Letter No. 8, declaring that the use of discretionary clauses in health and disability insurance policies and contracts violates…
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March 20, 2006
NEW YORK – A policyholder that refused to submit to an electromyelograph study did not breach its duty to cooperate, the Second Department New York Supreme Court Appellate Division has ruled, finding…
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March 03, 2006
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – A New York jury on Jan. 23 ruled that an orthopedic surgeon who could no longer perform surgery after falling down a flight of stairs, injuring his shoulder and incurring nerve…
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November 30, 2005
Long term disability insurance litigation is a complex blend of contract law, insurance law, medicine, vocational expertise and, quite often, the labyrinthine federal statutory and regulatory scheme of…
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June 22, 2005
Quadrino Schwartz's case, Weiller v. New York Life Ins. Co., was recently cited in an article published in The New York Law Journal: Electronic or "e-discovery" and problems relating to it are…
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March 28, 2005
Quadrino Schwartz obtained an important decision in Weiller v. New York Life Ins. Co, one of the three class actions spearheaded by Quadrino Schwartz. The decision was recently featured on the front page…
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February 13, 2005
Annmarie Hurley still remembers a conversation more than 13 years ago with her boss, Dr. Fred Danziger, as if it were yesterday. Dr. Danziger, a dentist in Long Beach, N.Y., asked Ms. Hurley, then a 26-year-old…
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February 04, 2005
NEW YORK - A New York judge on Jan. 25 said he will hold a hearing to allow live testimony by the parties’ medical experts to assist in determining whether a claimant with heart disease is capable…
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August 27, 2003
A Manhattan federal judge has castigated the nation's largest provider of disability insurance, accused in a class action suit of plotting to deny high-cost claims, for failing to take adequate steps to…
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