Welcome to Farber Brocks & Zane

FARBER BROCKS & ZANE L.L.P. is a full service law firm with offices in Garden City, New York, Newburgh, New York and Westfield, New Jersey. The firm was designed to provide client-focused, value-based, quality-driven legal services to our individual, corporate, professional and insurance company clients. The ongoing execution of this philosophy has continued our growth and success, and is supported by longstanding relationships and numerous referrals from our existing clients.

Our attorneys have extensive litigation experience in the areas of professional and general liability defense, automobile claims, construction law and insurance coverage matters. Our attorneys represent their clients in all phases of litigation in the Trial and Appellate Courts at both the State and Federal levels, as well as in various alternative dispute forums.

 

Appellate Division finds no Common Law Duty Owed for Fire Protection Services

The Appellate Division, Second Department upheld the trial court’s granting of summary judgment to contractor Eastern Construction Developing & Custom Homes, Inc., in a property damage by fire action. We successfully argued that the fire was unrelated to the exterior work performed by our client and that fire protection services is not a duty.......read more

 

Appellate Division Holds that Adjacent Landowner not Responsible for Fire Hydrant

The Appellate Division, Second Department, unanimously reversed the trial court’s denial of summary judgment to landowners/tenants, in a single-car motor vehicle accident case where the plaintiff’s vehicle hit a fire hydrant base that was located on the sidewalk adjacent to, but not within, the curb cut used by customers of the tenant............read more

 

Appellate Division Holds that Plaintiff –Decedent’s Actions are Sole Proximate Cause of Injuries

The Appellate Division, Second Department upheld the lower court’s decision which granted summary judgment to our client, construction manager Pami Construction Corp, in a wrongful death/Labor Law action. In Sonia Areli Amaya Serrano v. Sophia Popovic, Pami Construction Corp. v. Baschnagel Brothers, Inc...........read more

 

Second Department Upholds Application of Employee Exclusion to Named Insured and Additional Insured

In an appeal brought by our attorneys in Campoverde v. Fabian Builders, LLC, 83 A.D.3d 986, 922 N.Y.S.2d 435 (2d Dept 2011), the Appellate Division, Second Department, reversed an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County, and adopted our argument that neither.........read more

 

Southern District Reaffirms Additional Insured’s Independent Duty to Request Coverage

The Southern District reaffirms that a party seeking additional insured coverage has an independent and implied obligation to comply with the notice provisions of the insurance policy under which it is seeking.........read more

 

Three Year Statute of Limitation of Claims Against Design Professionals Accrues Upon Termination of Relationship

The Appellate Division, Second Department upheld the trial court’s award of summary judgment to an architectural firm, where the cause of action accrued more than three............read more

 

Additional Insured Coverage Blanket Endorsement

We are pleased to announce that we successfully convinced the Second Department in Burlington Ins. Co. v. Utica First Ins. Co., 2010 NY Slip Op 01906, to reverse the Nassau County trial court’s decision and agree with the First Department’s decision in Rodless Properties v Westchester Fire Insurance Company..........read more