During the winter driving months, it’s important to remember that your brakes stop your wheels, but your tires stop your car. Brake maintenance is vitally important, but you also need to take a good, hard look at your tires to determine whether you can trust them as the roads become slick and sloppy. To help... Read more » Read More
The first snowstorm of Fall 2018 was a stark reminder of how the white stuff can bring our lives here in New Jersey to a screeching halt or worse. If your life was suddenly changed due to a slip and fall on an icy sidewalk, you might be wondering what your rights are vis-à-vis a... Read more » Read More
If you attempted to commute home on Thursday, November 15, you won’t soon forget the experience. All across northern New Jersey cars got bogged down in the heavy snow and traffic came to a crawl. As minutes turned into hours, the accident toll climbed, and many motorists were forced to abandon their cars, because they... Read more » Read More
If you or a loved one has sustained a serious injury, what are the prospects for your future? With certain injuries, medical specialists can offer a reasonable prognosis, but when an injury affects the nervous system, the victim’s potential for recovery is often cloudy at best. Most mysterious are traumatic injuries to the brain. But,... Read more » Read More
If you’ve ever been delayed for hours on I-78, because of an overturned tractor-trailer, you have a sense of the destructive potential of a large truck accident. At , our personal injury attorneys have represented many clients who suffered catastrophic injuries in commercial truck accidents. To keep you safe, we want to pass along some... Read more » Read More
After a sharp drop in 2014, workplace fatalities in New Jersey rose in 2015 and again in 2016, according to data recently released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. NJ.com reports that the Garden State ranked 17th in the nation in workplace fatalities in 2016 with 101 deaths from occupational injuries. In its analysis... Read more » Read More
In June of this year, two horrific crashes on the New Jersey Turnpike snarled traffic for miles and raised concerns about the safety of large commercial trucks traveling throughout the Garden State at highway speeds. On June 8, two people were killed when a tractor-trailer truck overturned on the Turnpike southbound, at milepost 104.4, around... Read more » Read More
New Jersey premises liability law holds a landlord accountable when a hazard the landlord knew or should have known about causes injury to a visitor. However, a major requirement is that the hazard be hidden or at least not obvious to the visitor. The logic behind this rule is that the visitor must also be... Read more » Read More
A head-on collision on a South Carolina highway that killed a wrong-way driver made national headlines recently, but not because wrong-way driving is an anomaly. The accident made the 24-hour news cycle because it left Congressional candidate Katie Arrington with multiple, severe injuries. Arrington sustained a fracture to her back, broken ribs and a partial... Read more » Read More
The May 17 school bus crash on I-80 in Morris County, which killed a 10-year-old student and a 51-year-old teacher and injured 40 others, has brought the issue of school bus safety to the fore here in the Garden State. Foremost on the minds of parents and legislators are two key issues: the safety of... Read more » Read More
