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New Jersey hospitals can be extremely busy places. Medical professionals and other staff members rush to perform tasks and respond to patient emergencies. Visitors stop by daily, sometimes more than once, to see sick friends and relatives. Housekeeping duties within these bustling environments are expected to be performed regularly, thoroughly and efficiently. Despite the attention […]

Today’s cars contain a lot of built-in safety features that weren’t available just a decade ago. Despite ongoing improvements, car safety experts have yet to design a vehicle that prevents the most common and most reported car accident injury – whiplash. The forward and back motion forces ligaments and nerves in the neck to extend […]

You’d think it would be easy to spot, but sometimes it isn’t. Sexual harassment in Bergen County workplaces can be direct or indirect. You may be a witness to an atmosphere of misbehavior without being the target of it. Protections from sexual harassment in the workplace are outlined under Title VII of the Civil Rights […]

Justices on the New Jersey Supreme Court are weighing arguments about an accident that injured a Plainsboro woman. The sidewalks in the woman’s private housing community were slick with ice as she made her way to a grocery store in December 2008. The plaintiff alleged the homeowners’ association and companies hired to maintain the sidewalks […]

A Bergen County employer may not punish a worker for blowing the whistle on company wrongdoing and rules or public policy violations. The New Jersey Conscientious Employee Protection Act shields employees from retaliatory termination and other employer revenge for filing valid complaints. The Whistleblower Act safeguards workers who take a complaint to a supervisor or […]

Like it or not, Bergen County commuters deal with large amounts of truck traffic every day. Across the country, almost 4,000 people die in semi-truck accidents annually, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Fatal large truck accidents occur at the rate of about 11 per day nationwide, but news reports are so widespread […]

Many New Jersey workers are aware of at least some legal protections afforded them while on the job. Certainly, Bergen County employers know the rules they must follow concerning the treatment of job applicants and employees. But, there are numerous employment laws at the federal and state levels and even local laws in some jurisdictions, […]

It takes seconds for a car to drift across a centerline into the path of oncoming traffic. Accident investigations conducted by law enforcers, insurance companies and legal firms determine how and why crashes like these happen. The determination of fault can lead to criminal charges, and in independent legal actions, civil claims against negligent drivers. […]

In February 2014, a New Jersey jury decided a motorist was more responsible in a July collision on the New Jersey Turnpike than the bus driver she struck. The court ordered a judgment in favor of the bus driver and NJ Transit. The motorist argued that the jury’s finding was inconsistent, and the judge overruled […]

A 71-year-old Holmdel woman crashed her car through the front of Cluck-U Chicken on March 3. A patron standing inside the Red Bank restaurant was struck by the vehicle. According to police and the owner of the business, the car came barreling into the restaurant just before noon. The vehicle smashed through seats and hit […]