Yesterday, the NJ Appellate Division ruled on the case of Penn National Insurance Company v. Costa. This NJ personal injury case involved an injury on land which Frank Costa owned and lived. Next to Mr. Costa’s house was his business. An employee of his business walked over to Mr. Costa’s driveway (on his personal property) [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared for marketing a device that a doctor can use to see inside a blood vessel to assess the fat content of the plaque which builds up on the wall of the coronary arteries. Plaque is a deposit made up of cholesterol-rich fat, calcium, and other substances found [...]

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: LawnBott Lawn Mowers Units: About 530 Importer: Kyodo America Industries Co. LTD., of Lawrenceville, Ga. Manufacturer: Zucchetti Centro Sistemi S.P.A., of Italy. Hazard: The cutting blades continue [...]

This month, the Pennsylvania State Police advised citizens that an e-mail circulating in Pennsylvania that warns of a “speeding ticket frenzy” involving State Police is a hoax. The misinformation in this e-mail is an urban legend that originated in New Jersey in May 2005.  Since then, the hoax has targeted police in several other states. [...]

Yesterday, the NJ Supreme Court upheld the NJ Appellate Division’s decision holding your screen name or internet addresses private. We reported to you in an earlier blog entry that a New Jersey police officer used an invalid NJ Municipal Court subpoena to obtain information from Comcast regarding a criminal suspect. The Appellate Division said this [...]

Every 39 minutes and nearly 40 times a day, someone in the United States dies in an impaired driving-related crash.  In 2006 alone, more than 13,000 people died in impaired driving-related highway crashes and hundreds of thousands more were injured, according to research by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.  NHTSA also estimates that about [...]

Check out our Spring 2008 Newsletter here: Spring 2008 Saile & Saile LLP Newsletter.pdf

The insurance industry uses data that weigh the following risk factors in calculating your policy payments:  Accidents – Every fender bender increases a driver’s risk quotient. Age – Youthful males and older drivers can be expected to have more accidents. Credit rating – Lower FICO credit scores translate to higher insurance risk. Gender – Women [...]

The Center for Auto Safety reports that although by law children in all states are currently required to use seat belts or child safety seats when they ride in the family car, every school day 23 million youngsters travel back and forth to school without this basic crash protection because large, yellow school buses are [...]

A recent unpublished New Jersey DWI case appears to have removed the Constitutional “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard. The New Jersey Lawyer newspaper reported the case of State v. Beckman. According to the case brief, the NJ DWI Defendant was convicted in the local NJ Municipal Court. The Defendant then appealed to the Law Division [...]

During the Easter Holiday 2008, Pennsylvania State Police have reported that they investigated 508 accidents on Pennsylvania roads and highways. Of the 508 accidents, 14 people were killed and 202 were injured. A telling statistic is, of the 14 who died in the accidents, 11 of the 14 did not have their seatbelts fastened. Also, [...]

The New Jersey Supreme Court just clarified the New Jersey Punitive Damages Act. As you may know, punitive damages are special damages over and above a normal jury award that are sometimes imposed when a Defendant’s conduct is particularly egregious. Punitive damages are meant to penalize bad conduct. The NJ Supreme Court in Tarr v. [...]

The presiding judge of the NJ Appellate Division set forth a letter of instructions last week to NJ Municipal Courts on how to address the backlog of NJ DWI cases previously on hold. First, the court staff must create a list of all NJ DWI cases that have been “stayed” no later than April 12, [...]