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A man in New Jersey recently pleaded guilty to owning and sharing child pornography materials with others. He received a five-year prison sentence for the second-degree charge of child pornography distribution. Under Megan’s Law, he must register as a sex offender and will be required to submit to parole supervision for the rest of his life. The […]

An employee of a New Jersey garbage hauling company was injured after his co-worker left with the garbage hauling truck. That individual wasn’t authorized to operate the truck. According to the accident report details, the man sustained injuries when he was thrown from the truck. The force of the impact threw the man into the […]

An 18-year-old girl received more than $4 million by a jury to settle a claim against her father and his insurance company. She received permanent injuries to her spine because her father failed to stop at a stop sign in Hackensack four years ago. Under Section 39:4-81, a driver must obey all traffic control signs […]

A number of individual diagnostic centers had perpetrated a fraud on Medicare that was stopped when a whistleblower that worked at one of the companies came forward to the fraudulent practices that were going on at the centers. This scheme defrauded Medicare out of a large amount of money and resulted in a large recovery […]

The laws surrounding marijuana are changing around the country with some places now allowing for recreational smoking of the herb and others allowing it for medicinal purposes only. A professor making her way from her home in Maine to New Jersey was in for an unpleasant surprise when the TSA found a small amount of […]

One woman’s family is seeking compensatory damages that are unspecified in the claim documented in Superior Court in Hudson County. A 37-year-old female lawyer, born in Brazil, was standing on a platform in the train station on Sept. 29, 2016, when the crash occurred in Hoboken. She had been killed by falling debris from the […]

A roofing company recently was fined after the death of one of their workers at The Castle, an upscale dining hall that’s being built to resemble an actual castle. The tragic accident occurred in November as the roof was being put on the building. The worker had been standing on a forklift in an improper […]

Pennsylvania House Bill 168 has passed the House and was unanimously approved by the state Senate earlier this year, according to a recent article in Lancaster Online. The bill, known as the “stolen valor” bill, would impose criminal penalties on anyone convicted of lying about military service for personal gain. A draft version of the […]

On June 5, 2013, debris from a nearby building undergoing demolition hit a neighboring Salvation Army store, resulting in seven deaths and leaving twelve people with severe injuries. In early 2017, a jury held both the Salvation Army and the developer liable and awarded the injured plaintiffs and families $227 million, the largest personal injury […]

In January 2017, New Jersey enacted one of the most sweeping bail reforms in the United States. Instead of making cash bail the norm, the new system requires courts to use a rubric to evaluate a defendant’s risk to the community and the risk that the defendant will fail to show up for trial. The […]