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Reasons to “Rep Your ZIP”
September 29, 2011Have you ever been asked “Can I have your ZIP code?” by a perky cashier?
Read More »Ocean City’s Legal Woes: $250,000 and Counting
October 12, 2011If you receive NJCJI’s weekly email, you may have read Douglas Bergen’s reports in the Ocean City Patch: Ocean City Pays Lifeguard $50,000 in Secret Lawsuit Settlement and Ocean City Pays More Than $200,000 to End Firefighter Lawsuit.
Read More »Waning public resources could restrict access to our states’ courts, ABA President warns
October 17, 2011Statehouses across the country are grappling with budget deficits and declining revenue. We’ve all heard of successful programs meeting their demise due to an absence of funding. Crippling budgetary trade-offs being made to our educational system, law enforcement, and the like have become so commonplace that they barely raise eyebrows in disbelief.
Read More »U.S. Chamber: Tort Reform Would Create 35,000 – 94,000 Jobs in New Jersey
October 27, 2011Want to see New Jersey’s unemployment rate drop by up to 2.3%?
Read More »Survey: South Jersey Becoming a Lawsuit Mecca
November 1, 2011A majority of New Jersey’s small business owners want the Legislature to address legal reform, according to a Rutgers-Eagleton survey.
Read More »The iTunes Class Action Lawsuit You’ll Never Hear About
November 3, 2011Unless you read about it here, of course.
Read More »Teen who made headlines for killing family and suing their estate gets another 15 minutes of fame
November 4, 2011Dateline NBC will be airing an interview this evening with Justine Winters, the Montana teenager who made headlines last year for killing a pregnant mom and her 13-year-old son during a failed suicide attempt. What Dateline does not mention in its teaser (as of now, at least) is that Winters later filed suit against the More »
Read More »It’s Election Day in New Jersey. Go vote.
November 8, 2011People often say that they sit out “off year” elections like this one because they’re not as important as Presidential or gubernatorial elections. This notion is entirely false. Only a handful of us will ever meet the President or require an intervention from the White House. For substantive help, government begins from the bottom up.
Read More »Atlantic City gets slammed (again)
November 21, 2011This time, it’s a man-made disaster: lawsuits. The best odds in Atlantic City may be in the Courtroom – not its casinos. The Press of Atlantic City reports that until very recently, the City paid out an average of $2.5 million annually in legal settlements.
Read More »Faking a disability? Don’t post it on Facebook.
November 28, 2011Unfortunately, it occurs all too often: a plaintiff overstates, inflates, or fabricates an injury altogether after an auto accident and seeks compensation. And then she posts photos of herself completing a 5k on Facebook.
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