“Significant levels of toxic heavy metals” found in popular baby foods: report
On Thursday, February 4, 2021 the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy for the House of Representatives published a staff report titled “Baby Foods are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium, and Mercury.” The Subcommittee, relying on internal company test results from Nurture, Beech-Nut, Hain and Gerber found that all tested baby foods […]
New York Fourth Department Win on Personal Jurisdiction in Benzene Case
Disputes over personal jurisdiction have become more and more commonplace in product liability cases in recent years. Although the U.S. Supreme Court has issued several seminal decisions addressing personal jurisdiction over the past decade, there is a specific jurisdiction issue in relation to which it has not rendered a decision but is expected to do […]
Partner Janet Walsh hosts Bloomsday event for Irish American Bar Association of New York
This past week, Partner Janet Walsh, organized and co-hosted with Professor JaneAnne Murray of the University of Minnesota Law School a virtual event for the Irish American Bar Association of New York. The event celebrates James Joyce’s Ulysses and its contribution to First Amendment jurisprudence in the United States. Featured in the Irish Times, the […]
What Is The Price Of Corporate Immunity?
Every person is responsible for themselves and their actions or their failure to act. However, in a society, every person also has a duty, an obligation, to act (or not act) in a way which is responsible for others. This is why we as a society have laws. The Laws are the Rules to live […]
Campus Life During COVID-19: Should Students & Families Be Reimbursed?
College Education in the US was, like most all of life in the country, turned upside down in a matter of days by the Covid 19 pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of students, looking forward to Spring on the quadrangle or other favorite campus hangouts were told to pack up and leave all student housing in […]
Ambry Genetics Data Breach Potentially Exposes Personal Health Information.
The most recent data breach potentially exposing user information is coming out of California-based genetic testing laboratory, Ambry Genetics. In accordance with HIPPA Breach Notification Rule, Ambry Genetics published a notice on their website announcing the potential exposure of personal health information (PHI) of 233,000 customers. This breach includes: Ambry Genetics provides comprehensive genetic testing […]
A Heartfelt Message of Education to Families and Residents of Nursing Homes: Resources, Information & Contacts to Help during COVID-19
I have been in the long-term care industry for almost 25 years. I have been a volunteer, a public policy advocate, an elder law legal services attorney, and a trial attorney with a practice focused for the last 10 years on litigation against nursing homes and long-term care facilities for abuse and neglect throughout New […]
A Thank You from Locks Law
In this time of concern and anxiety, we at Locks Law Firm recognize and honor the Doctors, Nurses and all Medical professionals who are there for us in hospitals and nursing homes. They show us every day that they are willing to put themselves at risk to treat the sick and weak. Doctors and nurses […]
COVID-19 Update from Locks Law Firm
Dear Colleagues and Friends, We are closely monitoring this rapidly changing situation and we want to assure you that our main priority at this time is making sure our clients, staff and community are all safe. In efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 we have asked that all of our staff work remotely until […]