You spent eight months negotiating a $4.2 million supply contract with a Brooklyn manufacturer. The ink dried in April. In July, your biggest competitor — knowing every detail of your deal — calls the manufacturer, offers to indemnify any early-termination liability, and walks away with your contract. You didn't just lose a sale. A rival deliberately blew up a signed agreement. In New York, that's a business tort called tortious interference with contract, and it lets you sue

You wired $750,000 to a Brooklyn developer to buy out a co-investor's stake in a Bushwick warehouse project. The closing fell apart. The developer kept your money for nine months and used it to pay off unrelated debts. There's no signed purchase agreement — just emails, a term sheet, and a wire confirmation. Can you still get your money back? Yes. That's exactly what unjust enrichment claims in New York are designed to address. When someone holds onto value that belongs to yo