Mortgage Grader, Inc. v. Ward & Olivo, LLP, 438 N.J. Super. 202 (App. Div. 2014). In the legal malpractice context, a “tail” insurance policy is one that “provides insurance coverage for malpractice that occurs during the claims-made policy coverage period but is ...
This week’s New Jersey Law Journal contains the result of a Law Journal survey of practitioners who were asked to rate the judges of the Appellate Division in nine separate categories on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the ...
My firm, Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, was successful in two Appellate Division cases within the last few days. Last week, in Villaquiran v. All-State International, Inc., 2014 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1633 (App. Div. July 8, 2014), one of my cases, ...
This post is by my colleague Jeffrey A. Shooman. He discusses an important criminal law decision that the Appellate Division issued today. State v. Saavedra, 433 N.J. Super. 501 (App. Div. 2013). At issue in this case was the criminal culpability of public employees ...
There are many, many decisions, including this published ruling by Judge Lihotz, that implement the directive of Rule 1:7-4 that a trial judge “shall, by an opinion or memorandum decision, either written or oral, find the facts and state its conclusions ...
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 ...
Henebema v. South Jersey Transportation Authority, 430 N.J. Super. 485 (App. Div. 2013). The key issue in this case, in which the opinion of the Appellate Division was written by Judge Fasciale, was whether a judge or a jury is to decide “whether defendants ...
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. ...
Rymarkiewicz v. UMDNJ, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2013). Our courts, especially the appellate courts, bend over backwards to avoid dismissing cases for a party’s failure to make discovery. This decision by Judge Fasciale, however, involved plaintiff’s egregious and ...
Crystal Ice-Bridgeton, LLC v. City of Bridgeton, 428 N.J. Super. 576 (App. Div. 2012). Plaintiff’s building caught fire. Bridgeton firefighters responded and were at the site for nine hours. While the fire was still raging, Bridgeton’s Fire Chief determined that, in the ...