NEXT
Sign in to follow

New York Law Journal

NY Litigators Debate New Version of Grieving Families Act En Route to Gov. for Third Year

The revised bill brings acknowledgement to the value of the death of a child or older family members, such as a grandparent. It also accounts for domestic partners.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Federal Judge Rejects State-Created Danger Claims From Woman Raped on SEPTA Train

"The court emphasizes allegations of a failure to act will not satisfy the state-created danger theory," Judge Juan Sanchez ruled.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Appeals Court Rules Settling Defendants Can't be Kept in a Case to Anchor Venue

The unanimous opinion, authored by Judge Trenton Brown, echoed Presiding Judge Stephen Dillard's trepidation toward the plaintiff-appellant's position at oral argument.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

How This Litigation Team Secured a $5.2M Gwinnett County Win for Slip-and-Fall Plaintiff With Terminal Illness

Allegations of evidence tampering, witness intimidation and TikTok videos circulated at trial.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ High Court Grapples With Questions of Whether Low-Speed Electric Scooter Riders Are 'Pedestrians'

The case reminds us that even narrow issues can attract the court's attention if not previously interpreted by an appellate court.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Jury Awards $1.8M, Not Rejected $60K, for Broken Pinky Finger

"If you have a good client and a corporate defendant that has not preserved evidence or has mishandled evidence, then a case with bad facts can become a strong case," claimed lead plaintiff counsel Drew Gilliland.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

$2.7 Million Settlement for Construction Worker Injured in Fall

"This was a case of a corporation breaking its promises to keep workers safe and then blaming the worker when a preventable injury occurred," David Schmid of Stark & Stark said in a news release on the settlement. "We always believed this contractor paid lip service to safety and failed to follow its own safety manual and federal safety regulations, and in the end we had the evidence to back it up."
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

'I'm Having Trouble Seeing That': Panel Eyes Combat Doctrine in Premises Liability Case

"The mutual combat doctrine arose back in the mid-1990s. And since that period of time, there have been maybe seven or eight cases that have worked their way through the appellate courts," the plaintiff-appellants argued. "All those cases have one thing in common. The combatants … had absolutely no connection whatsoever with the establishment."
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Crop of Lawsuits Hits Nursing Home After Abrupt Closure

After the closing was announced, the scene that followed was allegedly "nothing less than utter chaos," with suitcases and garbage bags everywhere, causing extreme distress to the displaced residents, plaintiffs lawyer Paul da Costa claimed.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

After Landlord Refuses to Tender Insurance, Slip and Fall Ends in $440K Award

The company's stance was an apparent attempt to gain leverage in settlement negotiations and convince the plaintiff to accept a nominal settlement, the plaintiff's lawyer said.
4 minute read

More from ALM

More from ALM

Legal Speak is a weekly podcast that makes sense of what’s happening in the legal industry.

Resources

  • Aligning Client Needs with Lawyer Growth and Profitability

    Brought to you by BigHand

    Download Now

  • Technology to Make E-Discovery Smarter, Not Harder

    Brought to you by Nuix

    Download Now

  • Does Generative AI Have the Power to Transform Legal Services?

    Brought to you by HaystackID

    Download Now

  • International Export and Trade Assistance State Law Survey

    Brought to you by LexisNexis®

    Download Now