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How the Statute of Limitations Affects a New Jersey Case When you’ve been injured in New Jersey because of the wrongful or careless act of another person, you have the right to bring a lawsuit to recover compensation for all your losses. You must, however, bring your claim within a certain amount of time or...

How Will It Affect Your Right to Recovery after an Accident? When you’ve been injured in a motor vehicle accident or a slip and fall, you have a right to bring a personal injury claim against any other party who acted carelessly or negligently, causing the accident and your injuries. But what if you were partially...

What Can You Recover in a Lawsuit? When you’ve been hurt in any type of an accident caused by the carelessness or negligence of another person, you have the right to file a lawsuit to recover for your injuries and loss. You may be unable to work or may need extensive rehab or physical therapy, which may...

What Must You Show to Prove Negligence? In our last blog, we looked at the standard of care in a personal injury lawsuit, examining the requirement that an injured person show that the defendant failed to act as a reasonable person would under the circumstances. That’s the first components of a successful personal injury claim....

When you have been hurt in any type of accident caused by the carelessness or wrongful act of another person, you have a right to pursue compensation to cover your injuries and losses. Ideally, you can recover full and fair compensation from an insurance company, or negotiate a settlement that meets your needs. You may,...

Selecting and Instructing the Jury In this series, we have looked more closely at the legal process during a personal injury lawsuit, from the filing of the original complaint through the gathering of evidence, from the pre-trial rulings on admissibility of evidence to the process for dismissing certain claims. In this last installment, we look at two...

The Details that Need to Be Addressed before Trial In the earlier blogs in this series, we looked first at the details of how a lawsuit originates, and then at the discovery process, where the parties gather, evaluate and protect evidence to support their claims. We’re not quite ready to go to trial, though—there are other...

The Discovery Process You’ve been hurt in an accident because of someone else’s carelessness or negligence. You’ve hired an experienced attorney, who has filed a personal injury complaint on your behalf, and the defendant has replied, denying the allegations. What happens next? The Discovery Process Typically, once the parties have timely filed a complaint and an answer,...

What Can I Expect Immediately After Filing a Personal Injury Claim? In New Jersey, when you’re hurt because of the wrongful conduct of another person, you have a right to seek compensation for your losses in a court of law. What does the process look like? How do you get from the act of contacting...