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After hearing testimony from insurers, the public and nonprofit groups regarding force-placed insurance policies and practices at a hearing last month, the Department of Financial Services ordered the state’s top force-placed insurers to submit lower premium rates to the DFS ...

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State and local supportive housing agencies faced with budget cuts and an ever increasing need for services received welcome news from the Supportive Housing Network of New York’s annual conference in New York City last week. New York State Homes ...

Following the work and the report of the New York Attorney General’s Leadership Committee for Nonprofit Revitalization, hopes were high that the AG’s proposed legislation, which included much of the committee’s recommendations, would pass through the Legislature in this session. ...

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New York state is issuing too much tax credit for the development of formerly contaminated brownfield sites in areas that aren’t located where the money is needed, according to a report released by the Albany-based environmental protection watchdog group Environmental ...

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Robert L. Brenna, Jr. didn’t just go to law school and practice as his father before him did. He also became a musician, like his father, who played clarinet in the Bobby Brenna Orchestra along with saxophone player Pat Dinolfo, ...

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Members of area protest group Take Back the Land say there has been little progress in getting the City of Rochester to reexamine its foreclosure and eviction process. The latest case to draw the group’s ire is that of Eddie ...

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Finding a job in this economy is hard enough for people without a criminal conviction, but for the hundreds of thousands of people released from federal and state prisons in the U.S. each year, it’s nearly impossible once personnel departments ...

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For years, a 36-foot-long Department of Financial Services van has been used to help people file insurance claims after disasters such as the flooding in western New York. Today it’s being used for a different kind of disaster relief in ...

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A study by University at Buffalo sociology professors published in Law & Society Review found that both plaintiffs and defendants typically feel dissatisfied in employment discrimination cases. The study, titled “Situated Justice: A Contextual Analysis of Fairness and Inequality in ...

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In a decision and order issued last week, U.S. District Court, WDNY Judge Michael A. Telesca ruled that Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputy Michelle Albertelli’s claims against the county for violating her procedural due process rights and for municipal liability can ...

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According to its director, John P. Martin, the goal of the University at Buffalo’s Shale Resources and Society Institute is to provide accurate research-based information on the development of shale and other unconventional resources. However, the accuracy of the information ...

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Many Americans with disabilities look forward to the day they will be able to use a hotel or park pool for recreation, enjoyment and exercise just like everyone else. Requirements for making pools accessible for the disabled were set to ...