FACTA: No Joke. Most people know about the FCRA, but do not know about FACTA, which recently took effect and applies to ALL businesses. The Federal FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act) has been revised with the addition of the Federal FACTA (Fair Accurate Credit Transaction Act). A part of FACTA is designed to reduce risks [...]
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Employers have a duty to conduct thorough background investigations on prospective employees. An employee can be an enormous asset or a disastrous liability. A background check , composed of several sections; each section designed to recover certain information, is the absolute first step in any potential hire decision. (For the purposes of this week’s Bulletin, [...]
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Volume 4 / Edition 1 This Week; Focus On: “State Your Intentions, Please”: Notice of Claim Filing a claim is the first formal step in bringing an action for relief to the court’s attention. Our focus this week will be on the New York State Court of Claims. Here at BNI, our experience has been [...]
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Volume 3 / Edition 5 This Week; Focus On: “The Brakes Failed…”: National Vehicle Defect LookUp Over many years of reconstructing vehicle accidents, we’ve heard innumerable variations of “the brakes didn’t work” from the involved motorists. Until several years ago, it was a cumbersome task to research recall information through the various governmental agencies entitled [...]
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Volume 3 / Edition 4 This Week; Focus On: Mirror, Mirror On The Wall: Increase In Fake Drivers’ Licenses At BNI, we’ve begun to track a disturbing trend in the past year regarding driver identification. It’s a fact that unless the driver involved in an MVA is personally known to the responding police officers, there [...]
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Volume 3 / Edition 3 This Week; Focus On: How Does This Work Again?? (MVA) Plaintiff FAQs Often the investigative specialist is the first person to meet the potential plaintiff. When an investigator is directed by an attorney to conduct a client sign up survey in the field, she generally encounters an injured person with [...]
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Volume 3 / Edition 2 This Week; Focus On: Take a Number Please: Uncovering Professional Defendants BNI is often asked to conduct asset searches in situations where the injures incurred exceed the available insurance policy limits. Generally, the legal professional requesting this service is aware that the defendant’s assets are limited but due diligence is [...]
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Volume 3 / Edition 1 This Week; Focus On: Drawing a Line in the Cement: NYC Sidewalks Rules & Regulations Hopefully not prescient for the Labor Day celebration, we thought we’d tackle the issue of NYC’s sidewalk maintenance, liability… early this year, before any unscheduled skating events occur on the City’s 12,750 miles of sidewalks.The [...]
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Volume 2 / Edition 11 This Week; Focus On: Does iPod=eBay? Trademark Protection and Dilution Throughout our years in business, BNI has conducted many corporate trademark and copyright infringement investigations – ranging from the sale of illegal post-concert product at multi-venue performances to unauthorized re-published literary works (which were later claimed by the perpetrators to [...]
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Volume 2 / Edition 10 This Week; Focus On: The 411 on 911: National PD/Law Enforcement Contact Info There is reason to believe that a Shermantown, NY police accident report, relating to your client’s accident, may exist. You’ve googled “shermantown ny police department”. The first 25 results relate to General Sherman and an Upstate B&B [...]
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