This Thursday, December 17, the New Jersey Assembly is voting on A3403, which would award more money to workers compensation attorneys at the expense of their injured clients. Continue reading
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What do we Mean When we say Government Enforcement has been Outsourced?
When most people think consumer fraud protection they imagine government agents going out into the field to inspect businesses, write tickets, and shut down bad-actors. As reports from the state Attorney General’s office can attest, these things do happen, but they are just one part of the state’s enforcement mechanism. A wide variety of regulations are also enforced via lawsuits brought by private attorneys effectively deputized as government enforcement agents. Continue reading
Top News Clips for the Week of March 28-April 2
A selection of the need-to-know civil justice news for the week of March 28-April 2. Continue reading
Is Litigation the Best Way to Regulate Business?
A number of New Jersey’s state regulatory provisions specify statutory penalties for violations. Having a defined penalty enhances predictability and reduces inconsistent application of the law. When the statutes provide for enforcement actions by individual consumers, the statutory penalty model has the potential to provide the individual with a straightforward means of redress, often without need to even hire an attorney. Attorneys are getting involved though, and it is leading us toward a system where businesses are being regulated one jury at a time. Continue reading
Top News Clips for the Week of Jan. 17-23
A selection of the need-to-know civil justice news for the week of Jan. 17-23. Continue reading
New Jersey’s Leviathan
New Jersey’s Consumer Fraud Act has been expanded over the years by the courts and the legislature to the point where it is no longer focused on protecting consumers from fraud. It is instead a catch-all claim that is pulled into all sorts of disputes – consumers and fraud optional. A few recent cases really illustrate this point. Continue reading
Assembly Voting On Legislation That Enriches Attorneys at the Expense of Injured Workers
This Thursday, December 18, the New Jersey Assembly is voting on A3403, which would award more money to workers compensation attorneys at the expense of their injured clients.
“The Assembly needs to know that this bill benefits only attorneys and does nothing to help injured workers. This is a blatant cash grab by the trial bar and its only purpose to increase attorney compensation – money which comes directly from the injured worker’s payout,” said NJCJI President Marcus Rayner.
Assembly Voting On Legislation That Enriches Attorneys at the Expense of Injured Workers
This Thursday, December 18, the New Jersey Assembly is voting on A3403, which would award more money to workers compensation attorneys at the expense of their injured clients.
Please contact your Assembly members TODAY and tell them that you oppose legislation that takes money from injured workers to pay attorneys for work they didn’t do. Continue reading
Assembly Labor Committee Advances Legislation That Enriches Attorneys at the Expense of Injured Workers
NJCJI believes that workers who are injured on the job deserve to be fully compensated for their injuries. Furthermore, workers should not have to hire an attorney to get the benefits they are due. These basic principles are what underlie our opposition to S374/A3403, which would award more money to workers compensation attorneys at the expense of their injured clients. Continue reading
TCCWNA Lawsuits: What is Driving Them and Who is Benefiting?
Over the last year we have seen an unprecedented number of Truth-in-Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act (TCCWNA) lawsuits filed in New Jersey courts. This consumer protection law has been on the books for years, but has been the subject of few lawsuits until recently. So what is driving the sudden uptick in TCCWNA cases? And who is really benefiting from the surge in litigation? We will explore these and other questions surrounding the law during a policy teleforum on Thursday, December 11 at noon. Continue reading