How much are the 2024 Medicare benefit deductibles? Hospital deductible: $1,632, co-insurance (days 61-90): $408/day, and skilled nursing facility co-insurance (days 21-100): $204/day. How much are the 2024 NY Medicaid Institutional and Community/Home Care resource and income allowances? (Community / Home Care Benefits are in parenthesis): resource allowance $31,175, income allowance $50 ($1732), community spouse resource […]
Author Archives: Friedman & Ranzenhofer
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The New York State Surrogate’s Courts have jurisdiction over all actions and proceedings relating to the affairs of decedents. This includes the probate of wills (testate) and the administration of estates (intestate), small estates, ancillary proceedings, disputed claims, discovery proceedings, accountings, compromise and settlement of wrongful death actions, guardianships of the person and property of […]
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Plaintiff Meghan Brown suffered a traumatic brain injury when the door of a commercial building shattered as she exited through it. She was awarded more than $35 million by a Manhattan, New York jury on March 28, 2024. The jury found Defendant 271 Madison Co. negligent and 100% liable for her injuries. They awarded her […]
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The family of a 16-year-old girl fatally shot in theBronx while walking home from school by a ghost gun is suing the manufacturer, Polymer80 Inc., for wrongful death. The complaint is the first time in New York State history that a family has leveled wrongful death claims against a ghost gun producer.Polymer80 is among the […]
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In Players Place II Condominium Association, Inc. v. K.P, the New Jersey Supreme Court on March 13, 2024 reviewed whether the trial court properly dismissed the disability discrimination claims brought by condominium unit owners after the condominium association declined their request to have an emotional support animal (ESA) based on the animal’s weight. The Court […]
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Even if you signed your parent’s New York nursing home admissions agreement, you cannot be sued for their nursing home bill if you did not have access to their funds. Do not let the nursing home lawyers try to tell you otherwise by threatening “breach of contract” lawsuits. Nursing home lawyers have been sued for […]
Friedman & Ranzenhofer, PC is hiring. Due to rapid growth in commercial litigation, landlord-tenant, personal injury, DWI/criminal defense, estate litigation, and family/matrimonial law cases, Friedman & Ranzenhofer, PC has announced the immediate job opening for a Senior Litigation Attorney Associate. Location: Williamsville, NY and Akron, NY Founded in 1955, Friedman & Ranzenhofer, PC is a […]
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A proposed class action alleges that Bankers Healthcare Group (“BHG”) and part-owner Pinnacle Bank (“PB”) have issued to consumers expensive loans fraudulently disguised as business loans to hide their “predatory” lending practices in violation of federal and state consumer-lending statutes. The lawsuit looks to represent anyone who signed or co-signed a financial loan from BHG […]
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Amazon requires its drivers to deliver as many as 250 packages in an eight-hour shift, which is a pace of less than two minutes per package, according to a personal injury accident lawsuit. Amazon has been sued in a Newark, New Jersey federal court for $3 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive […]
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama (“USDC”) held on March 1, 2024 that the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), which requires most reporting companies (corporations and LLCs) to file a beneficial ownership information report (“BOIR”) with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”)—is unconstitutional. The USDC rejected the government’s argument that Congress had […]