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Accident lawyer: Tenant Safety
As an accident lawyer, I don’t typically deal with the terms of residential leases involving a tenant. Most tenants are aware of their basic rights. If you rent an apartment, your landlord has many responsibilities towards you. Typically, the landlord is required to provide a tenant heat and hot water. The landlord must maintain the…
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Accident Lawyer: Trespassers Can Sue
Accident Lawyer Advisory: Injured Trespassers May Be Able to Sue A trespasser comes to see an accident lawyer. He was on someone else’s property. He had no right to be on the premises. But he tripped on something. He was badly injured. Now he wants to sue the property owner for damages. Can he? You…
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Car Accident Lawyer: Traffic Tickets
How a Car Accident Lawyer Evaluates a Case Say a new case comes into the office of a car accident lawyer. One of the first things that the attorney will investigate is whether there was a violation of a traffic law. This is because, if the lawyer can prove that the other driver violated a traffic…
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Talcum Powder Cancer In Women?
Talcum Powder Cancer In Women Is Anything Safe Anymore? Recent lawsuits in New Jersey show that there may be a reason for women to worry about talcum powder cancer. The victims in these lawsuits claim the following: Since 1981, there have been 24 studies that have linked women’s use of talcum powder in the genital…
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Sleep Apnea Caused Gap Teeth
A Dental Malpractice Lawyer Story Stephen had mild sleep apnea. A dentist fit him with a dental appliance, known as a positioner, to wear while sleeping, to reduce the symptoms. Stephen claimed that the dentist assured him that his teeth would not shift. However, his teeth did shift. A later sleep study discerned that the sleep apnea was now severe. Worse still, due to the shifted teeth, there…
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Viagra May Cause Melanoma
A products liability lawyer certainly has many issues to be aware of these days. For instance, a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association linked the popular drug Viagra with the skin cancer melanoma. Men who took Viagra were 84% more likely to develop melanoma over a 10 year period. Melanoma…
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Personal Injury Affects a Spouse Too
When a personal injury attorney sues someone for negligently injuring his client, the personal injury lawyer is seeking to obtain compensation for that client. Such compensation can include lost wages, medical bills, and an award for pain and suffering. What many people do not realize is that the person with the physical injury is not the only…
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Dog Bite Law 101
How To Sue A Dogs Owner As a dog bite attorney, I sometimes hear from dog bite victims that they don’t think that they can sue the dog’s owner because the dog that bit them never bit anyone else before. And I wonder about all the dog bite victims that don’t even come to see…
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$3M Age Discrimination Verdict
Six employees of the Passaic County, New Jersey Prosecutor’s Office will apparently keep $3 million in damages awarded to them by a jury in their age discrimination case. The New Jersey Supreme Court refused to hear the County’s appeal. The employees claimed that their 2008 dismissals, allegedly part of a cost-saving measure, were motivated by age. In July 2012, a…
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Today Is Veterans’ Day. Service Counts.
It is Veterans’ Day today. Federal and state courts in New Jersey will be closed.Banks have the option to close. There will be no mail delivery. Veterans’ Day was originally established by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 as Armistice Day. It commemorated the armistice ending World War I, which took effect in the 11th hour of…