Ilan Properties, Inc. v. Benishai: Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claims and the Continuing Wrong Doctrine

This blog previously has addressed the statute of limitations, a concept that has special significance for breach of fiduciary duty claims. Whether a fiduciary-duty claim is timely is highly fact-dependent and not always clear-cut. For that reason, plaintiffs’ lawyers often get creative in trying to salvage an otherwise viable fiduciary-duty claim that is on the brink…

Apollo Mgt., Inc. v. Cernich:  The Flexibility of Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claims

An interesting and easily overlooked decision of the Appellate Division, First Department, shows just how flexible fiduciary duty claims can be.  In Apollo Mgt., Inc. v. Cernich, 202 A.D.3d 527 (1st Dep’t 2022), the court allowed the plaintiffs to seek money damages on a fiduciary-duty theory of liability for misconduct that really fell under an…