The winter months are approaching which means that sidewalks and roads may become covered with snow and ice. Premises liability for both residential and commercial properties comes into question whenever an individual is injured while on the property of another. Landlords of both residential and commercial properties as well as residential homeowners, have a responsibility to take reasonable steps...
Read MoreA few months back we blogged about a case making its way up the New Jersey Court system which would test a Homeowners’ Association’s liability for a slip and fall accident on their sidewalk. Historically Associations have had immunity from these types of lawsuits and the cases were dismissed by the Courts. Now, everything has changed. The Supreme Court...
Read MoreMany homeowners in New Jersey live in Condominium Associations where the Association hires an outside company to handle all snow removal and spreading of salt in the winter months. The NJ Supreme Court is now considering whether homeowners’ associations and their maintenance contractors can be held liable for injuries caused when they fail to clear snow and ice from...
Read MoreWe are proud to announce that this week’s New Jersey Law Journal contains a report of Gale & Laughlin’s recent $950,000.00 settlement for our client. The New Jersey Law Journal is a publication which contains hot topics in the legal world and pivotal court decisions. While stopped in traffic on the Garden State Parkway our client’s car was hit...
Read MoreCar services such as Uber and Lyft, which connect drivers and passengers via a web application, have come a step closer to being regulated after a New Jersey legislative committee passed a bill aiming to set minimum insurance standards and impose other strictures. One of the concerns at the forefront is the insurance coverage issue involving passengers in these...
Read MoreChanging a tire on major roadways such as the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike can be extremely dangerous. In Torres Pena v. Gonzalez a motorist was struck while in the process of changing a flat tire on the New Jersey Turnpike by another who allegedly left the scene and was paid a $3.25 million settlement. A flat...
Read MoreNew Jersey lawmakers are contemplating enacting legislation that would limit the access to the information from event data recorders installed in automobiles that track speed, location, time of use and the number of people inside an automobile. Privacy concerns are at the forefront of this discussion. The proposed legislation would make the information on the automobile’s event data recorder...
Read MoreIn 2008 a Spring Lake Heights high school baseball player committed suicide by stepping in front of a moving train. His family sued his former coach at St. Rose High School and others claiming that the teenager killed himself to avoid the stress of having to testify against the coach at an upcoming criminal trial. According to the suit,...
Read MoreIn a recent court decision a woman who alleged that she had been sexually assaulted by a police officer in Pemberton Township, had her case dismissed for failure to file the necessary notice of claim. In Gilmartin vs Kreig, the plaintiff claimed that she was sexually assaulted following her arrest but she never filed any type of written notice...
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