NEW YORK FRAUD CLAIMS

As this Blog has detailed, the tort known as fraud is a robust legal flavor enhancer that produces all kinds of powerful legal remedies and benefits.  For example, fraudulent conduct can give rise to rather remarkable remedies, like completely undoing …

As this Blog chronicles, fraud claims arise in a myriad of circumstances and contexts.  In this post, I review a new decision in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that analyzes attempted fraud claims in …

A new decision of the Appellate Division, Second Department (Gerlitz v Biddle, 2022 NY Slip Op 00851 (2d Dep’t Decided Feb. 9, 2022) addresses the distinction between transactions that are “void” and those that are “voidable” based upon allegations of …

I have written often about the courts’ insistence that parties who seek to allege they have been defrauded do their own part in protecting themselves, especially by acting reasonably to ferret out any misrepresentations allegedly made to them. This is …

In my October 16, 2017 post, set out again below, I discussed the law concerning personal liability of individuals, such as officers, directors and employees, who commit fraud on behalf of the entity in which they are affiliated.  Such individuals …