By Charles Toutant | March 31, 2023
Under the offer of judgment rule, Ogunkoya and his insurance company, ProAssurance, are liable for Sapp's legal fees and expenses incurred from the time they declined the offer of judgment until the verdict was returned, pursuant to the offer of judgment rule, subject to court approval, plaintiffs lawyer John Collins said.
By Colleen Murphy | March 30, 2023
"[R]egardless of what Wiesner said to the ASA and the level of his involvement in fashioning the email to the Law Division, an absolute litigation privilege applied," the opinion said.
By Colleen Murphy | Charles Toutant | March 28, 2023
A $12 million settlement in a Monmouth County medical malpractice case, and a $1.5 million settlement in a Union County auto case.
By Charles Toutant | March 23, 2023
An Essex County jury awarded $1.6 million in Estate of Gaza v. Popovich, M.D., a medical malpractice suit claiming errors following a gallbladder removal…
By Amanda Bronstad | March 22, 2023
On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied Johnson & Johnson's petition to rehear its Jan. 30 decision effectively dismissing its talc bankruptcy.
National Law Journal | Analysis
By Christine Schiffner | March 15, 2023
Cleanup and litigation costs could amount to billions of dollars, attorneys say, given the scope of pollution and extensive use of PFAS in consumer products.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Robert B. Hille and John Kaveney | March 10, 2023
Contracting entities, including those in the health care industry, need to approach language differently depending on whether they are dealing with a consumer or employment agreement or an arm's-length commercial contract.
By Charles Toutant | March 9, 2023
One lawyer compared the hospital suits to data breach litigation, where "courts have been all over the place" about what compensation to award to claimants.
By Colleen Murphy | March 8, 2023
"Accordingly, pursuant to the plain terms of the PFA, as explained by the court in Nicholas, plaintiff's proffered AOM expert failed to satisfy the statute's kind-for-kind mandate for both defendant doctors," Appellate Division Judge Lisa Rose wrote.
By Mason Lawlor | March 3, 2023
"[A] law meant to apply to street dealers of illegal drugs cannot be used in a misguided attack on DEA-registered wholesale distributors of FDA-approved medications," one of the defendants, Cardinal Health, said in a statement following the verdict.
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