Heyert v. Taddese, 431 N.J. Super. 388 (App. Div. 2013). [Disclosure: My firm, Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, represented the Hoboken Rent Leveling & Stabilization Board in this appeal and in the other appeals discussed in this post]. This has been a busy ...
Town of Kearny v. Brandt, 214 N.J. 76 (2013). Deciding when the ten-year construction statute of repose, N.J.S.A. 2A:14-1.1, begins to run is often a difficult issue for courts. In this case, the Supreme Court faced that issue in the context of ...
Angland v. Mountain Creek Resort, Inc., 213 N.J. 99 (2013). Plaintiffs’ decedent had a skiing accident with a snowboarder, from which plaintiff’s’ decedent later died. His estate sued the ski area and the snowboarder. The New Jersey Ski Act, N.J.S.A. 5:13-1 to -12, ...
Grijalba v. Floro, 431 N.J. Super. 57 (App. Div. 2013). As Judge Fasciale’s opinion in this case shows in detail, issues of whether and when a property owner is liable for injuries that occur on a sidewalk abutting the property have been ...
Vellucci v. Allstate Ins. Co., 431 N.J. Super. 39 (App. Div. 2013). Plaintiff’s decedent was employed by Allstate at an office building owned, designed, built, and managed by Mack-Cali Realty, L.P. Plaintiff alleged that the decedent contracted Legionnaire’s Disease from the building’s ...
Nicholas v. Mynster, 213 N.J. 463 (2013). Until the advent of the New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act, codified in part at N.J.S.A. 2A:53A-41, “in medical-malpractice cases, physician experts of different medical specialties, but who treated similar maladies, could ...
Turner v. Irvington Tp., 430 N.J. Super. 274 (App. Div. 2013). This opinion by Judge Parrillo reversed the denial of the defendant Township’s motion for summary judgment in a case that sought to hold the Township vicariously liable for the allegedly improper ...
Mahwah Realty Associates, Inc. v. Mahwah Tp., 430 N.J. Super. 247 (App. Div. 2013). This case, in which plaintiffs sought to block development of a health club, has been back and forth to the Appellate Division several times. This round of proceedings involved a ...
Townsend v. Pierre, 429 N.J. Super. 522 (App. Div. 2013). Though this case, which arose out of an auto accident, is a decision on summary judgment, it may be of greatest interest to lawyers and clients whose cases are at the trial stage. ...
Halvorsen v. Villamil, 429 N.J. Super. 568 (App. Div. 2013). Does the Dram Shop Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:22A-1 to -7, which makes a licensed alcholic beverage server liable for serving a visibly intoxicated person who then causes personal injury or property damage to ...