Due to the impending snow storm, our annual Winter Policy Forum has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 30, from Noon-1:30 PM, at the Trenton Country Club. Asm. Jack Ciattarelli (R-Somerville), one of the top Republican candidates for governor, will be our featured speaker.
A selection of the need-to-know civil justice news for the week of March 4-10.
Certain New Jersey businesses have a hard time appealing verdicts against them because it is simply too expensive to do so. The cost comes not just from the expense of hiring attorneys, but from having to post a bond for the full amount of an adverse verdict before being allowed to appeal. In this day and age, eye-popping jury verdicts are not uncommon, but financial regulations and the nature of certain businesses makes it challenging to get funding for appeal bonds.
An article in the latest edition of the business newspaper NJBIZ highlights a disagreement between lawyers that has delayed an important change to our civil justice system for nearly a decade. As the article explains, plaintiffs’ attorneys have protested attempts by the New Jersey State Bar Association and other non-legal professional associations to standardize the statute of limitations in professional malpractice cases.
The New Jersey Civil Justice Institute is thrilled to announce that our chief counsel, Alida Kass, is a finalist for NJBIZ’s General Counsel of the Year Award. The General Counsel of the Year Award honors the state’s most dynamic General Counsels and Chief Legal Officers.
A selection of the need-to-know civil justice news for the week of February 25-March 3.
Balancing the state budget and funding all of the programs the state thinks are important is not an easy task. Revenue growth is steady, but slow, and we are already one of the highest taxed states in the nation, so there is little room to maneuver.
On February 28, Gov. Christie delivered his eighth and final budget address to a joint session of the legislature, officially kicking off negotiations on the state’s FY 2018 budget. The legislature’s focus for the next few months will essentially be on the budget, as it must be passed by July 1.
A selection of the need-to-know civil justice news for the week of February 18-24.
Anyone who says our state does not have a lawsuit problem need only look at this week’s newsletter to see there is no shortage of crazy lawsuits being filed in the Garden State.
