New Jersey Supreme Court Decided First Wrongful Birth Lawsuit
The first major wrongful-birth lawsuit involving a disabled child reached the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1966. In the case of Gleitman v. Cosgrove, one plaintiff was the child’s mother. She had contracted rubella (German...
Read MoreMan Dies When Car Hits New Jersey Home
In Bergen County, a 68-year-old driver died at the scene on Friday when his car crashed into another car at the intersection of Woodside Avenue and Washington Place in Hasbrouck Heights and then crashed into...
Read MoreSemi Trucks Trap Horse Trailer on New Jersey Turnpike
The driver of a pickup truck towing a horse trailer was trapped for more than two hours on the New Jersey Turnpike when his pickup track became sandwiched between two tractor-trailers. The driver was eventually...
Read MoreTeen Bicyclist Killed in New Jersey by Atlantic City Detective
19-year-old Patrick Dutton of Mays Landing was killed when his bicycle was hit by an SUV on Black Horse Pike in Egg Harbor Township. Dutton was riding his bicycle home from a job at a...
Read MoreNJ Condo Management Company Not Liable for Sidewalk Slip-and-Fall
Three days after a 27-inch snowfall in 2006, Richard Luchejko slipped and fell on an icy sidewalk outside The Skyline Condominiums in Hoboken, injuring his leg and ankle. He sued the condo’s property management company,...
Read MoreMedical Malpractice Fears May Lead to Rising Healthcare Costs
According to the Los Angeles Times, 42% of the docs in a nationwide survey said the patients in their own practices “were receiving too much medical care” and 28% said they personally were ordering more...
Read MoreFatal Accidents on the Rise in New Jersey
A live-in domestic assistant for a Holmdel family was killed in a two-car accident in Monmouth County that also claimed the life of a six-month-old boy in her charge.l Motor vehicle accident fatalities are on...
Read MoreTraffic Deaths Lead to Re-Evaluation of Teen Driving Law
A New Jersey lawmaker who sponsored a law barring new teenage drivers from carrying more than one passenger said he would look to see if the law needed to be strengthened to ensure greater compliance,...
Read MoreBrain Injury Victims in the News
Two brain injury victims have been in the news recently, showing signs of recovery. Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head at an event outside a Tucson supermarket in January, appeared on...
Read MoreFatal Accident Strikes at State Fair
On Monday, Aug. 15, 2011, five people were killed and 50 injured recently when a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Twelve thousand country music fans were waiting for the start of a concert...
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