Can your E-ZPass records be used against you in court? You may be surprised to know that New Jersey Courts now admit E-Z Pass records into evidence. Where has your privacy gone?

We are sure that you heard about the Ride the Ducks accident on the Delaware River in July.  Accidents on the water, as with accidents on the road are NOT acts of God, they are caused by someone else’s carelessness or recklessness.  The attorneys for the families of the two Hungarian students killed in this [...]

New Jersey is keen on reducing car accidents and car accident fatalities among teens, the group representing the largest number of drivers involved in New Jersey car accidents each year.  On May 1, 2010 Kyleigh’s Law went into effect in New Jersey.  The law, named for Kyleigh D’Alessio, a teen who was killed in a [...]

Signs at New Jersey crosswalks will no longer read “Yield to Pedestrians within Crosswalk”.  Those signs now read “Stop for Pedestrians within Crosswalk”.  That is because on April 1, 2010 a new law went into effect in New Jersey requiring all motorists to come to a full stop at pedestrian crosswalks and remain stopped until [...]

Heads up and eyes on the road!  We provide you with this warning as New Jersey moves a Bill through its legislature that would require police to report whether driver distraction was the cause or contributing factor to a NJ car accident.  The New Jersey State Assembly approved a bill on March 22, 2010 requiring [...]

Many of you have tanned in a tanning bed or perhaps one of the stand-up contraptions. I know I certainly have. People are starting to use artificial tanning at a younger and younger age. The first time that I used a tanning bed was in college. Tanning by college students has become now more popular. [...]

Many of you have heard about the recent death of TV pitchman Billy Mays. The Hillsborough County, Florida Medical Examiner has preliminarily stated that May’s death was caused by a heart attack and not a result of a strike to his head. Last Saturday, June 27, 2009, Mays was a passenger on a US Airways [...]

In this case, the New Jersey Supreme Court was asked to rule under the NJ Licensed Alcoholic Beverage Server Fair Liability Act, also known as the NJ Dram Shop Law, as to whether a bar who served alcohol to one patron can be held liable for a fatal car accident, caused by another patron who [...]

The NJ Licensed Alcoholic Beverage Server Fair Liability Act, also known as the “NJ Dram Shop Act” is the exclusive civil remedy for NJ personal injury and damage of property from the negligent service of alcoholic beverages by a NJ licensed alcoholic beverage server. Under the NJ Dram Shop Act, a person who is personally [...]

In a decision last week, an NJ court ruled that the statute of limitations in a NJ personal injury case, as a result of a NJ car accident, will not be extended by the “Discovery Rule” in an NJ verbal threshold – limited tort injury case. In a typical New Jersey car accident – NJ [...]

In addition to the morning news commercials, commuters up and down I-95 in Philadelphia, PA are subject to ads for lawyers and law firms, including many billboards for personal injury lawyers. I realize that most of the personal injury advertisements that you see on TV are tasteless. These bad commercials are one of the reasons [...]

New Jersey personal injury law states that if you are convicted of DUI (driving under the influence) you are prohibited from recovering in an NJ personal injury lawsuit for third party, underinsured motorist, or uninsured motorist claims. While in NJ Municipal Court for a DWI-DUI (drunk driving) charge, a defendant can request a Civil Reservation [...]

For any of you that have used the drug Fosamax, you should know that is has reportedly caused major damage to people’s jaw bones, especially after there has been an injury to the jaw bone or dental work affecting the jaw bone. The New Jersey court system has just recognized Fosamax “mass tort” case status. [...]

Yesterday, news broke about the case a was filed in Camden County, New Jersey regarding a doctor applying an unauthorized temporary tattoo. For those of you who may not know, there is a surgeon in New Jersey that leaves his patients a “special present” when they wake up from surgery. In this case a woman [...]

Months ago we reported to you the NJ Appellate Division decision in the case of Reilly v. AAA Mid-Atlantic.    This was the case which involved a one car NJ car accident where the driver reportedly slipped off the road due to icy conditions.   The case was basically about the NJ car insurance company claiming that [...]

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 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 [...]

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. [...]

In a decision handed down last week, the NJ Appellate Division ruled that due to the fact that an owner and driver of a car which was involved in an NJ car accident did not cooperate with (or even respond to) their insurance company, the NJ car insurance company could deny car insurance coverage for [...]