PATERSON INJURY LAWYER SUES CITY FOR MAN’S FALL INTO POTHOLE An interesting case brought by a Paterson injury lawyer was decided recently. On September 30, 2011, at 9:30 PM, Rene Alicea exited a parked car. He walked around to the driver’s door to bid his daughter goodbye. Then he fell into a pothole located near the center Read More
A bus accident lawyer hired by Ms. Johnson filed a court complaint. The court papers sought compensation for injuries Ms. Johnson claimed to have sustained in an accident. According to Ms. Johnson, she was sitting in the driver’s seat of her husband’s parked car. A bus, owned by Red and Tan, struck the side of the car. Ms. Read More
SLIP AND FALL ATTORNEY SUES CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION A slip and fall attorney sues a condominium association for a condominium owner’s fall on ice. A slip and fall attorney hired by Jessica Carmona appealed a Judge’s order. The order dismissed Jessica’s lawsuit against a condominium association, Woodlands Community Association (Woodlands). Carmona is an owner of a Read More
CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER SUES NEWARK A civil rights lawyer sues Newark for a police car chase that injured an innocent third party. Here are excerpts from an appeals court ruling in ongoing lawsuit brought by a civil rights lawyer. Lennox A. Chunkoo hired the civil rights lawyer to sue Newark, its police department, and two Read More
CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWYER SUES BANK FOR FAILING TO REPORT SCAM A consumer protection lawyer prosecuted a tragic case. Between June 21, 2011, and December 21, 2011, Margaret Lucca made approximately twenty-seven wire transfers from her account at the Wells Fargo Bank branch in Somers Point, New Jersey. She was 82 years old. She sent the funds Read More
A medical malpractice attorney hired by Mr. Richard Carr filed a lawsuit. The lawyer filed the case for Carr and the estate of Daphne Essington, who was dead. The medical malpractice attorney claimed that Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center (OLOL), Dr. William Hasbun and Dr. Marshall Lauer committed medical malpractice against Ms. Essington. The Read More
NEGLIGENT HIRING BY AN EMPLOYER IS GROUNDS TO SUE Negligent hiring by an employer is grounds to sue for someone injured by a dangerous worker. Negligent hiring occurs when a company hires a dangerous, incompetent or unfit person. Later, that person injures someone. Clearly, negligent hiring affects people who don’t even work for the company. Read More
De Blasio to chase jihadist landlords? I recently wrote an op-ed for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Below is an excerpt. You can read the full piece here. New York City is settling a federal lawsuit that claims that NYPD monitoring of city mosques to detect radical activity is unconstitutional. A similar case was filed in New Jersey previously. That lawsuit Read More
TRAFFIC LAWYERS CAN HELP CLIENTS OVERCOME INACCURATE POLICE REPORTS Traffic lawyers do not have the luxury of creating the facts of their cases. Traffic lawyers have to deal with the facts as they arise. One place traffic lawyers look to determine what the facts were in a given car accident is the police report. Many Read More
EVEN A DRIVER PROCEEDING THROUGH A GREEN LIGHT MUST EXERCISE SOME CARE A traffic lawyer rule is that even a driver proceeding through a green light must exercise some care to avoid responsibility for an accident. A traffic lawyer has a client come to his office. The client tells the traffic lawyer that she was Read More
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