Estate planning for the young, rich and childless

For many single or childless individuals, the question of how to distribute their worldly wealth after they die is wide-open and complicated. A charity? Alma mater? Distant nieces and nephews? A cat? And who will take care of making sure dying wishes are fulfilled? This Read More …

Insurance Company Cheated Medicare Out of $1 Billion, Says Lawsuit

Josh Valdez took an executive level job in April 2010 expecting to improve medical services at two Puerto Rican Medicare Advantage health plans owned by a subsidiary of New Jersey company: Aveta Inc. But a few months after coming on board, the former government health Read More …

Some Doctors Always Charge Medicare for the Most Expensive Office Visit

A joint investigation by ProPublica and the I-Team found hundreds of New York and New Jersey doctors who have billed Medicare exclusively for the most expensive type of office visit – even though most of their peers rarely charge the top rate. Under Medicare billing Read More …

Bronx criminal enterprise preys on HIV victims to exploit $16M of Medicaid funds

Raheel Pervez and his accomplices scraped in their dirty money by paying off hundreds of HIV patients not to fill their prescriptions, all the while billing the social health care program for millions, according to prosecutors A Bronx pharmacist is facing up to 25 years Read More …

Have You Been the Victim of a Wrongful Termination?

In New York, an employer may fire an employee for any reason or even no reason at all. This is the “at-will” employment relationship which makes wrongful termination so rare in New York. Additionally, since employment is “at-will”, the employer is free to change the Read More …

Estate Planning Tips: Planning For Children with Disabilities

Estate Planning Tips: Planning For Children with Disabilities Planning ahead as a parent is essential when you have a disabled child. Executing a Special Needs Trust can be one of the many ways a disabled child will be taken care of. What is a Special Read More …

Firm Picked to Run LICH Paid $95M to Settle Medicare Fraud Suit

The company selected to run the proposed new Long Island College Hospital paid nearly $100 million in fines to the feds to settle accusations it systematically defrauded the U.S. health care system for nearly 15 years, DNAinfo New York has learned. The U.S. Justice Department Read More …

The Importance behind Charitable Giving

There are many ways you can spend your hard-earned dollars. And there is nothing wrong with rewarding yourself for your hard work and a job well done. But what would happen if you rewarded someone else instead? Charitable giving is extremely important for a number Read More …

Rich New Yorkers Face a Nasty Estate Tax Surprise

If you’re a New York multimillionaire, you now have another incentive to stay alive.A change this month in New York’s estate tax, which was billed as tax relief for the wealthy, contains a hidden wrinkle that could leave some multimillionaires with a much bigger surprise Read More …

Careful, Thoughtful Drafting Essential In Estate Planning

On April 5, 2004, Ms. Ann Dunn Aldrich wrote her Will on an “E–Z Legal Form.” In Article III, entitled “Bequests,” just after the form’s pre-printed language “direct[ing] that after payment of all my just debts, my property be bequeathed in the manner following,” she Read More …