New York is facing an affordability crisis. Families, small businesses, and healthcare providers are under increasing financial strain due to rising costs of housing, energy, insurance, and essential goods. This is not the time for the legislature to enact...

While we support the Consumer Litigation Funding Act (S1104A/A804) and its goal to protect consumers from predatory lending practices, the legislation, as currently written, lacks sufficient transparency and disclosure requirements to shield the civil justice system from...

With Albany failing to take action to reform New York's costly liability law, the Scaffold Law, Congressman Nick Langworthy is taking on the issue in Washington with the "2025 Infrastructure Expansion Act" (H.R. 3548). The 2025 Infrastructure Expansion Act would...

Stop the small business shakedownNew York’s small businesses are already stretched thin. Now, Albany is considering legislation that would make it easier to sue us for normal business activity. A single complaint, a price dispute, or a misunderstanding could trigger legal...

A. 6063 / S.4423 would radically expand the categories of damages that a plaintiff may recover in a lawsuit for alleged wrongful death. An actuarial analysis of the proposed legislation estimates that, if enacted, the bill could increase liability premiums by $2...

Please send a message to your legislators and urge them to support much-needed Scaffold Law reform, and sponsor legislation calling for reforms.The only-in-New York Scaffold Law is devastating our state's economy and civil justice system. The antiquated Scaffold Law is the...

New York State is grappling with a growing number of fraudulent insurance claims arising from staged construction accidents, leading to greatly inflated construction costs across the state. Construction projects in New York already pay the highest insurance costs in the...