Homeowners Found Not Liable for Guest Who Drowned in Their Pool

Defendants Doris and James Astacio permitted Doris’ sister and brother-in-law, Diana and Jason Adams, to host a sixteenth birthday party for their son at their home. Dafiq Rasheed, an adult guest, drowned in their pool and his father filed a negligence action against the defendants fo...

Governor Signs Law Expanding Voting Rights for Sending School Districts

By: Robert A. Muccilli, Esq. Editor: Sanmathi (Sanu) Dev, Esq. For years, sending school districts have felt left out of many important decisions made by the receiving districts to which they send their students and to which they pay tuition. That will no longer be the case under a n...

Capehart Scatchard Supports Kids’ Chance of New Jersey

Photo: Fr Left: Will Gardner, scholarship recipient; John H. Geaney, Esq., Workers’ Compensation Department Shareholder. Several attorneys from Capehart Scatchard’s Workers’ Compensation Department recently attended the Fifth Annual Gala for Kids’ Chance of New Jersey.  The event wa...

Appellate Division Finds Willful and Deliberate Violation of OPRA

In recent months, the New Jersey courts have issued several decisions regarding a public entity’s obligations under the Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”). In case you missed them, check out our articles from June 20 and June 27 regarding recent OPRA cases. This week’s article will focu...

Court Finds Homeowners Not Liable to Guest Who Trips over Dog in Hallway

Homeowners Richard Compeau and Rosanna DiMarzio found out the hard way what happens when you “let sleeping dogs lie” (or in their case one sleeping dog) in their hallway, when a guest at their Christmas dinner tripped over their dog and was injured. In Parella v. Compeau, 2017 N.J. Su...

Appellate Division Affirms Award of UPS Driver’s Motion for Med and Temp

Roy Hendrickson worked for thirty years at UPS.  His first 19 years were as a package car driver making over 100 stops per day to deliver or pick up packages.  He injured his back in 1992 but did not file a workers’ compensation claim.   In 2002 he injured his back lifting a heavy pac...

Workers’ Compensation Attorney to Address Occupational Medical Conference

Capehart Scatchard Shareholder, Lora V. Northen, Esq. is scheduled to speak at the 37th Annual SEAK, Inc., National Workers’ Compensation and Occupational Medicine Conference to be held in Cape Cod, Massachusetts on July 18, 2017. In her presentation titled, “How to Evaluate, Manag...
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