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Identify Percentage Rent Issues that May Impact the Assignment and Subleasing of Retail Space
April 23, 2004
Shopping center leases often contain percentage rent clauses that provide for the ability of the landlord to share in the sales of a tenant over a specific sales threshold while providing the tenant with a lower total rent when sales do not meet the sales threshold. A typical percentage rent provision obligates the tenant to pay a percentage (<i>ie,</i> the percentage rent rate) of the amount of gross sales generated by and from the tenant's business operated at the leased premises, that exceed the threshold amount, <i>ie,</i> a "sales" base or "breakpoint," as additional rent.
Can Med-Mal Caps Be Bypassed?
April 23, 2004
As more and more states across the nation impose statutory caps on damages for non-economic injuries in medical malpractice cases, plaintiffs and their attorneys are seeing their options for compensation diminished. Attorneys are looking for ways to best help their injured clients, such as hurriedly filing claims before the imposition date of statutory caps and framing their cases as something other than medical malpractice.
Liability Widens for Fetal Death Caused by Doctors
April 23, 2004
Overturning a 19-year-old precedent, the Court of Appeals of New York held on April 1 that a woman may recover damages for emotional distress for medical malpractice that causes a miscarriage or stillbirth, even if she personally suffers no physical injury.
Verdicts
April 23, 2004
Recent rulings of importance to you and your practice.
Med Mal News
April 23, 2004
National news of interest to you and your practice.
MedBytes
April 23, 2004
For those attorneys who loved "Gilly's" in law school, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment (CMDT), by Lange, McGraw-Hill, will simplify your ability to understand medicine. The following is a review of the CMDT by regular contributor Elliott B. Oppenheim, MD/JD/LLM Health Law.
Multi-Million Dollar Verdicts: Time for a Second Opinion
April 23, 2004
Few health-care providers confronting the reality of trial proceedings in cases involving serious injury or death fail to recognize the possibility of a multi-million dollar verdict being returned in favor of the plaintiff. In 2003, 15 of the top 100 verdicts reported nationwide by Verdictsearch resulted from medical malpractice actions, with the range falling between an award of approximately $19,465,000 to an incredible $112 million in a case involving the alleged failure to diagnose an aneurysm, which led to the patient's quadriplegia and significant brain damage.
Life Insurance and Divorce
April 22, 2004
Life Insurance is an important matter in most divorces. There are a host of issues that are not addressed in the typical negotiation. Consider the following sample insurance clause from a Property Settlement Agreement (PSA): <i>The husband shall maintain life insurance for the wife having an aggregate death benefit of $250,000. Said obligation shall be terminated if the husband's obligation to pay alimony is modified/terminated. The husband shall maintain life insurance having an aggregate death benefit of $250,000 for the benefit of the unemancipated children. Said benefit shall be reduced by $75,000 upon the emancipation of the first child and again upon the emancipation of the second child. The obligation to maintain any life insurance for the children shall terminate upon the emancipation of all Three (3) children.</i>
Litigation
April 22, 2004
Recent rulings of importance to you and your practice.
Malpractice Award Can Affect Alimony
April 22, 2004
A New Jersey Superior Court Judge has found that money received by a wife in a legal malpractice settlement stemming from the divorce trial can be used to reduce or eliminate alimony. Moreover, a supported spouse could not pay an excessive amount for a new home and then complain she does not have enough money for savings.

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