Two Ford Marrin partners, Al D’Isernia and Andrew Mandelbaum, were named by Super Lawyers as New York Metro Rising Stars for 2014.

The firm recently obtained summary judgment on behalf of The Burlington Insurance Company in a case involving the interpretation of a blanket additional insured endorsement to a CGL insurance policy. The Western District of New York upheld Burlington’s interpretation of the endorsement, which restricted coverage to those entities in contractual privity with the policyholder.

An MF Global Inc. customer seeking at least $100 million in damages over the brokerage firm’s collapse may pursue some claims against Jon Corzine and five other top executives, a New York federal judge ruled. U.S District Judge Victor Marrero refused to dismiss Sapere CTA Fund LP’s negligence and aiding and abetting claims against former CEO Corzine, former operations chief Bradley Abelow, former finance chief Henri Steenkamp and three others who worked in the company’s treasury department.

The Court of Appeals found that its prior K2 decision conflicted with its own precedent, and that there was no rational reason for departing from a well-established rule of New York insurance law. The court therefore reversed its holding from last year and reaffirmed the principle that an insurer that makes a mistake and wrongfully […]

Joseph D’Ambrosio and Andrew I. Mandelbaum write about section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which protects Internet service providers, website hosting services, and domain name registrants / site administrators, and certain other providers of online services, from being treated as the publisher of actionable content placed on their websites by third parties. […]