June 2013 Archives

  
    Foreign Resorts present special hazards for American tourists. People have sustained life threatening injuries or death on a water trampoline or have otherwise been injured due to unsafe conditions caused by the negligence of a foreign resort.  Shamefully, Americans have even been sexually assaulted by resort personnel and have faced barrier after barrier to obtaining justice in state and federal courts in the U.S.  Lawsuits have been dismissed without ever reaching the merits and injured person's claim.

The building in Brooklyn was beautiful. It commanded a hefty price - 3.2 million dollars. The people buying this property hired a buyer's agent and presumably, hired a real estate lawyer to handle the closing. In a transaction involving this amount of money, one would think that the agent and lawyer would be very careful to make sure there were no hidden problems - little things like say, an easement forever prohibiting the owner from making any changes to the building's facade without the express written consent of the National Architectural Trust, Inc. Unfortunately, either the agent, the lawyer, or both missed this little detail and when it came the purchaser's attention later on, one would imagine that the purchaser was none too happy.