Sidewalk Liability: Slip and Fall | New Jersey Personal Injury

Submitted by New Jersey personal injury attorney, Jeffrey Hark Bell v. Turiello, App. Div. (per curiam) (15 pp.) Plaintiff was working as a mail carrier when she tripped and fell on the public sidewalk in front of defendants’ two-family home. She broke her ankle and injured her foot. She sued defendant-property owners alleging that their…

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DiGerolamo v. Gale | Personal Injury from Tractor-Trailer Accident

TORTS | MOTOR VEHICLES – submitted by truck crash attorney, Jeffrey Hark. 36-7-3005 DiGerolamo v. Gale , Dist. Ct. (Kugler, U.S.D.J.) (12 pp.) In this personal injury action arising out of a collision between the vehicle driven by plaintiff and the tractor-trailer driven by defendant Gale, defendant Cheyenne’s Pilot Cars Inc., which contracted with the tractor-trailer’s owner…

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Slip and Fall – Plaintiff's Responsibility to Produce Evidence of the Actual Location

Trompeter v. Hilton Parsippany, Dist. Ct. In a recent line of cases the New Jersey Appellate has reiterated and reaffirmed the plaintiff’s responsibility to produce evidence of the actual location where s/he has called and the nature of the defect that has called them to call.  In addition, if expert testimony is required to prove the causal relationship between the defective condition, the defendant’s…

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