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Accident lawyer: Tenant Safety

  • By Marc S. Berman
Tenant Safety

As an accident lawyer, I don’t typically deal with the terms of residential leases involving a tenant. Most tenants are aware of their basic rights. If you rent an apartment, your landlord has many responsibilities towards you. Typically, the landlord is required to provide a tenant heat and hot water. The landlord must maintain the Read More


 Accident Lawyer: Trespassers Can Sue

  • By Marc S. Berman
Slip and fall

Accident Lawyer Advisory: Injured Trespassers May Be Able to Sue A trespasser comes to see an accident lawyer. He was on someone else’s property. He had no right to be on the premises. But he tripped on something. He was badly injured. Now he wants to sue the property owner for damages. Can he? You Read More


 Car Accident Lawyer: Traffic Tickets

  • By Marc S. Berman
car accident lawyer Fair Lawn NJ

How a Car Accident Lawyer Evaluates a Case Say a new case comes into the office of a car accident lawyer. One of the first things that the attorney will investigate is whether there was a violation of a traffic law. This is because, if the lawyer can prove that the other driver violated a traffic Read More


Talcum Powder Cancer In Women?

  • By Marc S. Berman
talcum powder cancer

Talcum Powder Cancer In Women Is Anything Safe Anymore? Recent lawsuits in New Jersey show that there may be a reason for women to worry about talcum powder cancer. The victims in these lawsuits claim the following: Since 1981, there have been 24 studies that have linked women’s use of talcum powder in the genital Read More


Sleep Apnea Caused Gap Teeth

  • By Marc S. Berman
New Jersey Medical Malpractice Lawyer

A Dental Malpractice Lawyer Story Stephen had mild sleep apnea. A dentist fit him with a dental appliance, known as a positioner, to wear while sleeping, to reduce the symptoms. Stephen claimed that the dentist assured him that his teeth would not shift. However, his teeth did shift. A later sleep study discerned that the sleep apnea was now severe. Worse still, due to the shifted teeth, there Read More


Viagra May Cause Melanoma

  • By Marc S. Berman
Viagra and melanoma

A products liability lawyer certainly has many issues to be aware of these days. For instance, a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association linked the popular drug Viagra with the skin cancer melanoma. Men who took Viagra were 84% more likely to develop melanoma over a 10 year period. Melanoma Read More


Personal Injury Affects a Spouse Too

  • By Marc S. Berman
Personal injury affects a spouse

When a personal injury attorney sues someone for negligently injuring his client, the personal injury lawyer is seeking to obtain compensation for that client. Such compensation can include lost wages, medical bills, and an award for pain and suffering. What many people do not realize is that the person with the physical injury is not the only Read More


Dog Bite Law 101

  • By Marc S. Berman
Dog Bite Law

How To Sue A Dogs Owner As a dog bite attorney, I sometimes hear from dog bite victims that they don’t think that they can sue the dog’s owner because the dog that bit them never bit anyone else before. And I wonder about all the dog bite victims that don’t even come to see Read More


$3M Age Discrimination Verdict

  • By Marc S. Berman
Age Discrimination

Six employees of the Passaic County, New Jersey Prosecutor’s Office will apparently keep $3 million in damages awarded to them by a jury in their age discrimination case. The New Jersey Supreme Court refused to hear the County’s appeal. The employees claimed that their 2008 dismissals, allegedly part of a cost-saving measure, were motivated by age. In July 2012, a Read More


Today Is Veterans’ Day. Service Counts.

  • By Marc S. Berman
lawyer

It is Veterans’ Day today. Federal and state courts in New Jersey will be closed.Banks have the option to close. There will be no mail delivery. Veterans’ Day was originally established by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 as Armistice Day. It commemorated the armistice ending World War I, which took effect in the 11th hour of Read More