Attorney Carol L. Forte, Esq. of the law firm Blume Forte obtained a $2,000,000 settlement in the fall of 2010 for a five-year-old girl who suffers from developmental disabilities because she was delivered more than two months early after two doctors made the choice that an emergency Caesarean Section was necessary. The girl was considerably
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Single-Engine Plane Crash Investigation at Greenwood Lake Airport
According to a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) spokesman, the exact cause of a single-engine plane accident that recently occurred at Greenwood Lake Airport in West Milford, New Jersey is still under investigation. A NorthJersey.com article reports that the small plane’s pilot, a 49-year-old man, broke both of his legs and a 51-year-old passenger sustained injuries to
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DuPont Agrees to Test for Chemicals in Contaminated Pompton Lakes Area
An explosives factory ran by the DuPont Chemical company, which operated for many decades in the Pompton Lakes area of New Jersey, left contaminated groundwater under 400 homes in the 1980s. According to an article on NorthJersey.com, the cleanup has yet to be completed; however, progress has been made and the company has agreed to test
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North Wildwood Boiler Explosion Causes Burn Injury to Resident
A boiler tank explosion occurred in December 2010 and caused a burn injury to a North Wildwood, New Jersey resident, according to an article in The Cape May County Herald. Steam pressure built up in the tank, which caused it to shoot through the wall of an apartment building into the neighboring building, causing significant damage
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Injured New Jersey Workers May Be Able to Sue Employer
According to a news report in Risk & Insurance Online, a recent New Jersey Court ruling will allow employees to potentially hold their employer accountable for on-the-job accidents. Under New Jersey law, an employee usually may not sue an employer directly for injuries sustained in a workplace accident. Normally, the only claim an employee may make
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