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January 14, 2019 Justice Manuel Mendez granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment, which was predicated on the doctrine of preemption, in the Estate of Michael Hanley matter. In this matter, decedent worked as an electrician for the Long Island Railroad from the 1970s until approximately 2000. Prior to his […]

January 8, 2019 HarrisMartin’ s New Jersey Asbestos Litigation Conference Agenda Day 1, Wednesday, February 13, 2019 7:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast Breakfast Sponsored by Priority-One/Veritext 8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Welcome By Co-Chair John C. Garde, McCarter & English, Newark, NJ David Katzenstein, Eckert Seamans […]

January 8, 2019 New Jersey’s Appellate Division recently reversed a Bergen County trial court and remanded the matter for a new trial, following a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff. In the matter of Juan Morales-Hurtado v. Abel Reinoso , a motor vehicle negligence action, the jury returned a […]

January 8, 2019 Back in March 2017, the Connecticut Appellate Court issued a 161 page decision in R.T. Vanderbilt Co. v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co ., 171 Conn. App. 61, 156 A.3d 539 (2017). Dating back to 2007, the initial dispute arose when R.T. Vanderbilt filed suit against some […]

November 21, 2018 On December 5, 2018, the New Jersey Appellate Division, in an unpublished opinion, ( N.W v. Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division,Docket No. A-5079-16T4), affirmed the trial court’s grant of summary judgment dismissing plaintiff’s complaint against a school district […]

November 21, 2018 The Committee on Opinions recently approved for publication an October 27, 2017 Atlantic County Law Division Opinion in Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. v. Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa , which bears upon insurance carriers’ and defense attorneys’ ability to investigate claims prior to the institution of suit. […]

November 21, 2018 STACI PIECH V. GLENN LAYENDECKER, SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY, APPELLATE DIVISION, DOCKET NO. A-1417-16T4, (Approved for Publication October 19, 2018) Plaintiff Staci Piech was attending a 40th birthday party hosted by the defendant John Layendecker (John) for his son Glenn Layendecker (Glenn) when an eighteen-to-twenty inch […]

November 20, 2018 In New Jersey, the Patients First Act establishes certain qualifications that expert witnesses in medical malpractice cases must possess. The expert generally must practice in the same specialty. The physicianmust be credentialed by a hospital to treat patients for the medical condition or perform the procedure that […]

November 20, 2018 On October 23, 2018, New Jersey’s Appellate Division’s Committee on Publication approved a trial court opinion of the Hon. Joseph L. Marczyk, P.J.Cv., on a matter of first impression in New Jersey – whether, in the absence of expert testimony, a plaintiff in a motor vehicle negligence […]