Injury Law

Title 59, known as the New Jersey Tort Claims Act, is the controlling authority for how to proceed in an action for personal injury against a public entity. If you were injured on public property or by a public entity or public employee, you MUST file a Notice of Tort Claim against that entity. Continue reading →

As a personal injury attorney I handle many slip and fall cases which occur within various and different establishments, including grocery stores, malls, casinos and residential premises. I have found over the years that there is a common misconception: just because you fall and are injured, does NOT mean that you will ultimately be compensated. Continue reading →

New Jersey is slowly beginning to move away from the common law system, which relies so heavily on one’s ‘status’, toward a more general ‘reasonable person’ standard in all situations. However, old habits apparently still die hard, as courts and judges continue to apply the traditional common-law approach to landowner tort liability when a part is injured because of a dangerous condition on private property, which predicates such liability on the status of the person on the property at the time of the injury (i.e. whether the injured party is a “trespasser”, “licensee” or “business invitee”). Continue reading →