Criminal Law

• Fraud
  Karlin v. IVF America, Inc., 239 A.D.2d 562, 657 N.Y.S.2d 460 (2d Dept. 1997). Counsel in major class actions against the infertility industry (allegations of discrimination in care, lack of informed consent, violation of Consumer fraud statutes).

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
  Nancy also enjoys a long history in infertility litigation. She second-chaired in the trial of the first “test tube baby case”, DelZio v. Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, which was tried in the Southern District of New York in 1978. Since that time, she has been Counsel to several infertility programs for the purpose of risk-management (informed consent issues) and the defense of pending litigation, both commercial and tort-based. She has represented two distinct institutionally-based infertility programs in class actions involving allegations involving “success statistics”. She argued before the New York Court of Appeals the first General Business Law claim regarding infertility treatments (Karlin v. IVF America, 93 NY2d 282(1999)), and currently provides risk management and litigation services to individual infertility practices.
• Antitrust

Property Law

• Premises Liability

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Giacomazza v. Adams Hotel Associates, 90 CIV. 2330 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 1991) (Hon. Louis J. Freeh)(Civil – Personal Injury/Premises Liability/Negligence; Jury Trial (Dismissed as against client at close of plaintiff’s case); attorney of record and trial attorneys for defendant ISS International Service System, Inc.).
• Medical Malpractice