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New Magistrate Judges Helping District With Growing Complex-Litigation Docket
Complex litigation keeps growing in New Jersey's federal courts, prompting a 30 percent increase in the number of federal magistrate judges.Successful Bar Candidates - February 2008 Bar Examination
Here are the names of those who passed the February 2008 New Jersey Bar Examination. Of the 954 candidates who sat for this examination, results have been mailed to 869 candidates. Of those, 509, or 59.1 percent, passed.Split Loyalty Bars Carrier's Defense of Intentional Tort, Negligence Claims
A homeowner's insurer should not defend a suit that asserts intentional tort claims along with negligence, but it may have to pay the insured later on, a New Jersey appeals court rules in a case arising from barroom brawl.Court Enforces Step-Down Clauses in Corporate Automobile Policies
The state Supreme Court last week upheld enforceability of step-down clauses in company automobile insurance policies, limiting employees' uninsured-motorist and underinsured-motorist coverage unless they are named insureds.Social Security Payments Creditable Under Collateral-Source Statute
Like insurance premiums, Social Security contributions may be credited in determining deductions from personal injury awards under New Jersey's collateral-source statute, the Appellate Division ruled. The appeals court held that in passing the statute, the Legislature did not mean to exclude credit for Social Security contributions, "which share the same purpose and the same consequence in the case of disability" as premiums.Lawyer-Judge May Be at Center of Land-Flip Fraud
A Garfield, N.J., lawyer who is also the town's judge may have played a central role in a scheme to defraud lenders by obtaining mortgages based on inflated appraisals of rundown properties. A state civil suit points to solo William Colacino Jr. as the lawyer referred to in a federal criminal case as "W.C.," an unindicted co-conspirator whose legal services, law office, attorney bank accounts and legal assistant were allegedly used in the scheme.A Sea Change in Affidavit-of-Merit Jurisprudence
The state Supreme Court enunciated a bright-line rule against knee-jerk dismissal of professional malpractice cases over technical noncompliance with the Affidavit of Merit statute. The court's clear message was that meritorious claims will not be defeated in the face of a good-faith effort to comply. To ensure that the statute is applied appropriately, the court ordered trial judges to hold status conferences 90 days after the filing of an answer so that problems may be ironed out in a timely fashion.Trending Stories
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