The National Transportation Safety Board recently recommended new safety standards in an effort to reduce injuries and deaths caused by vehicles sliding underneath tractor-trailer trucks. As any driver knows, these trucks have large blind spots on their sides and rear.…
We receive many inquires from potential clients regarding injuries sustained from slip and falls on snow and ice. This winter, with its abundance of snowfall, has prompted more inquires than usual. Not every such injury, of course, warrants bringing a…
On a positive note regarding a sad topic, motor vehicle deaths among children, age 12 and under, decreased by 43% in the past decade. The information comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which published a positive…
As many of you already know, there are many options when choosing an automobile insurance policy. One such option is "Health Insurance Primary." We recommend NOT to elect Health Insurance Primary or Health Care Primary. Your health insurance plan may…
Related: Auto Negligence, Personal injury practice. The National Transportation and Safety Board has opened a string of investigations after a series of trucking accidents, including 4 recent crashes that resulted in the deaths of 25 people and at least 86…
Related: Auto Negligence, Personal injury practice. Car accidents remain the leading cause of death for children under the age of 13, and a large number of these cases involve children strapped into car seats. Thankfully, deaths of children in car…
Werner Herzog, a Hollywood director who has to his credit movies like “Grizzly Man,” and had a bit part in “Jack Reacher”, produced a new documentary that we recommend everyone view. The documentary, called “From One Second to the Next,”…
As New Jersey personal injury attorneys, we see far too often the tragic injuries that occur when people negligently operate their vehicles. The Bergen Record reported that on Sunday, May 13, a Kinnelon, New Jersey man was driving his motorcycle…
Motorcycle season has come a little earlier this year to us in the New Jersey / New York area thanks to Mother Nature and a lack of snow and salt on the roads. All of us who ride understand the…
In the recent appellate division case of State v. Witczak, 421 N.J. Super. 180 (App. Div. 2011), the court clarified what is known as the "community caretaking" exception to the requirement that police obtain a warrant before searching a person's…
