Michael Coffey is an American Board of Trial Advocates attorney and founding partner of insurance litigation firm Coffey Modica, with offices across five states. Contact him at [email protected].
Legal practitioners in New York State, and across its court systems, are bracing for a sea change as the Avoiding Vexatious Overuse of Impleading to Delay Act, better known as the AVOID Act, took effect on April 18.
Three bills introduced in California’s legislature look to rewire the equations and calculus of risk, rates and payouts determined.
