The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has completed a report on the cost of motor vehicle crashes nationwide. The report provides a summary of the financial damage caused by traffic accidents in 2012. While the report does an excellent job of showing the...
Month: October 2014
Texting Behind The Wheel
Laws aimed at putting a stop to texting while driving swept the nation in recent years. In total, 44 states have enacted total bans on texting behind the wheel. Texting is viewed as a dangerous distraction for someone who should be focusing on safe driving. While...
Takata Knew, And They Waited For Deaths To Start Recalls
New Jersey Civil Rights and Personal Injury Trial Lawyer Discusses Takata Airbag Recalls Until recently, you've probably never heard of a company called "Takata," a company in Asia that makes airbags for cars. Between 2000 and 2008, Takata made, and sold to a number...
Medical Malpractice, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and Ebola
New Jersey Civil Rights Trial Lawyer Discusses Briana Aguirre, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and EbolaOr... If They Can't Get This Right, Imagine How Much Medical Malpractice Actually Takes Place That Isn't Addressed.I know everyone's terrified of Ebola, and with...
Unpaid Internships And The Law
Businesses are always on the lookout for ways to save a buck. Thriftiness can quickly yield to labor law violations when employers decide to take advantage of workers. One way this happens in certain industries is to designate someone an unpaid intern and then treat...
Drowsy Driving And Non-Commercial Drivers
For many years, the research into fatigued driving focused largely on long-haul truck drivers. While the trucking industry is certainly one group impacted by drowsy driving, the problem extends far wider. Americans get nearly an hour less sleep per night than they did...
New Jersey Employment and Civil Rights Attorney Discusses a Lawyer’s Oath
When lawyers are admitted to practice in New Jersey, we swear an oath to uphold and defend the New Jersey Constitution and the laws of the State of New Jersey, as well as the U.S. Constitution and the laws of the United States. We become bound by the Rules of...
Women in the Economy: A New Take on Planet of the Apes
New Jersey Employment and Civil Rights Trial Attorney Discusses the Role of Women in the EconomyI read a very amusing and very pertinent "commentary" piece by Kathleen J. Wu in the New Jersey Law Journal, September 1, 2014. Being an inveterate nerd from my youngest...
Understanding Sex Discrimination In New Jersey
The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General maintains civil rights fact sheets designed to help employees and employers understand their rights and responsibilities. The fact sheet discussing sex discrimination under New Jersey law gives several examples of what is...
An Erosion of the Right to a Jury Trial: Lesende v. Borrero v. City of Newark
New Jersey Employment and Civil Rights Trial Attorney Discusses Recent Civil Rights Case First of all, I'm putting out there, as per usual, that I'm a plaintiff's employment and civil rights trial lawyer. When I approach fact patterns, I think about them from the...