Decision: 2020.03.31 Argument: 2020.02.13 vid. tr. Whether plaintiffs raised a triable issue of fact on their claim alleging a violation of Judiciary Law § 487; plaintiffs alleged that defendants engaged in a pattern of legal delinquency.
February Session
Matter of O’Donnell v. Erie County
Decision: 2020.03.26 Argument: 2020.02.11 vid. tr. Whether the Appellate Division erred in affirming the Workers’ Compensation Board’s determination on the basis that an April 2017 amendment to Workers’ Compensation Law § 15(3)(w) no longer requires a claimant to demonstrate an ongoing attachment to the labor market.
Matter of Vega (Postmates)
Decision: 2020.03.26 Argument: 2020.02.11 vid. tr. Whether claimant, who was engaged as a courier for Postmates Inc., was an employee of the company for unemployment insurance purposes—whether there is substantial evidence of an employer-employee relationship.
Plavin v. Group Health Incorporated
Decision: 2020.03.24 Argument: 2020.02.11 vid. tr. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit certified the following questions: Where a contract of insurance is negotiated by sophisticated parties such as the City of New York and an insurance company, and where hundreds of thousands of City employees and retirees are third-party beneficiaries of that…