Templo Fuente De Vida Corp. v. Nat’l Union Fire Ins. Co., 224 N.J. 189 (2016).  Insurance policies normally require insureds to provide timely notice of claims against them to their insurer.  If timely notice is not given, the insurer may ...

Freedman v. Sufrin, 443 N.J. Super. 128 (App. Div. 2015).  This opinion by Judge Fisher today involved the proper interpretation of a restrictive covenant that purported to restrict the removal of trees from plaintiffs’ property.  The covenant, one of several ...

Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 22 v. Kavanagh, 443 N.J. Super. 39 (App. Div. 2015).  This opinion by Judge Currier today addressed an appeal by defendant, a former member of the plaintiff labor union, of a $115,000 fine for violations ...

Conley v. Guerrero, 443 N.J. Super. 62 (App. Div. 2015).  As a result of a settlement in New Jersey State Bar Ass’n v. New Jersey Ass’n of Realtor Bds., 93 N.J. 470 (1983), mod., 94 N.J. 449 (1983), contracts for ...

Van Horn v. Harmony Sand & Gravel, 442 N.J. Super. 333 (App. Div. 2015).  When is a document titled “Lease Agreement” not a lease?  When it is in fact, regardless of its title, a lease or a “profit a prendre.”  ...

Cypress Point Condominium Ass’n, Inc. v. Adria Towers, LLC, 441 N.J. Super. 369 (App. Div. 2015).  A condominium association sued multiple parties, including insurers under commercial general liability (“CGL”) insurance policies, for consequential damages arising out of defective construction work ...

Torre v. Liberty Mutual Fire Ins. Co., 781 F.3d 651 (3d Cir. 2015).  This per curiam opinion deals with insurance coverage for the removal from plaintiffs’ land of Hurricane Sandy-generated debris (sand and other debris) not owned by plaintiffs.  The ...

Carlyle Investment Management LLC v. Moonmouth Company SA, 779 F.3d 214 (3d Cir. 2015).  Parties can, and often do, include forum selection clauses in their contracts.  Such clauses are frequently found to be enforceable.  But can such clauses by enforced ...

Arias v. Elite Mortgage Group, Inc.,   439 N.J. Super. 273 (App. Div. 2015).  This opinion by Judge Reisner affirmed a grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant bank and against the plaintiff mortgagors, applying the de novo standard ...

On this date in 1956, the Supreme Court decided Newark Publishers’ Ass’n v. Newark Typographical Union, 26 N.J. 419 (1956).  That unanimous opinion by Justice Heher involved whether the Newark Star-Ledger and one of its unions had agreed to arbitrate ...