Below is a link for the NJ Judiciary Form for Small Complaints that are not related to a motor vehicle accident. Remember, you should seek legal representation to find compensation for such a claim. Call us at 1-866-778-5500 for more information. This form was obtained from the NJ Judiciary website at www.njcourtsonline.com
FORM for SMALL COMPLAINTS (NON-Motor Vehicle)
If you have been involved in a motor vehicle accident and want to know what the New Jersey Small Claims complaint form looks like, look no further! Below is a link that will direct you to the adobe acrobat file (pdf) of the NJ Motor Vehicle Complaints. It was obtained from the NJ Judiciary website www.njcourtsonline.com. (Note that the small claims complaint form is for matters under $3000) Remember that no form can take the place of the advice of an experienced injury attorney.
Should you have any questions, please call 1-866-778-5500 for a free consultation.
SMALL CLAIMS COMPLAINT FOR MOTOR VEHICLES
In the extended entry of this blog post, you'll find an example of a NJ complaint form for a motor vehicle accident. Remember that no form can take the place of the advice of an experienced injury attorney. Please call us for more information 1-866-778-5500.
Form for Motor Vehicle Accident Complaint
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Many people have asked us about information regarding interrogatories. In the extended entry of this weblog post, you'll find a standard form for personal injury interrogatories found in the New Jersey Court Rules.
For more information, you can also visit www.richardconsole.com or call us at 1-866-778-5500
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A recent article in the New Jersey Law Journal indicates that a Spring Lake Heights woman accepted a $300,000 settlement on June 12 for a neck injury in a two-car accident. Dawn Pizzolato was hurt October 29, 2003 on route 71 in Manasquan when Franklin Leighton turned left onto the road and struck her car on the driver's side. Leighton was found guilty of careless driving.
Pizzolato sued Leighton in Monmouth County over herniated and bulging disks and a shoulder injury. She had surgery to remove bone from her hip for grafting near a metal plate in her neck. Pizzalato now has limited movement of her neck and tingling and numbness in her left arm.
(This information was obtained from the New Jersey Law Journal)
The New Jersey Law Journal reported that Secaucus and seven other defendants agreed on June 9 to pay $335,000 to a woman who suffered afractured tibia as she tripped while crossing a town street in a rainstorm. On Nov 9, 2001, Theresa Guadara was crossing Front Street which had been unevenly restored after utility work. Due to injuries suffered, she needed reconstruction and bone grafts, continues to feel pain and cannot resume her work as a hairdresser.
Defense noted that Guadara was outside the crosswalk. The evidence showed some of her pain could have been caused by shingles and a post accident fracture.
An Essex County jury awarded $539,000 on June 8 to an injured worker but cut his award by 25 percent due to comparative negligence. Osualdo Rodriguez was an employee of Jenny Trading Company which was housed in a Newark building undergoing repairs in 2003. A contractor, Luso Air Company, had rented a scissor lift from DNI Rentals Inc of Newark to remove equipment from the roof.
When DNI's driver delivered the lift to the site, he instructed Luso employees to drive the lift up a ramp. Rodriguez, though not a Luso employee, was one of the few workers on site who spoke English and he agreed. As he drove, the lift slid, crushing his right foot.
The jury found DNI 75 percent liable and Rodriguez 25 percent liable on the theory that he should not have been driving. The jury no-caused Luso.
* This information appeared in the New Jersey Law Journal
A construction worker who lost three fingers in a pole-driving-machine accident will receive $850,000 from the manufacturer in a settlement of his Atlantic County suit. Joseph Kell Jr was installing a highway guardrail in Philadelphia on January 7 and had his right hand crushed by a 1,200 pound hammer and block assembly that came dislodged from the machine's cable. His ring and middle fingers and part of his index finger had to be amputated.
The plaintiff claimed the machine, made by Sterling Manufacturing of Wilkes-Barre, PA, was defectively designed because it lacked a safety latch to prevent the hammer and block from coming loose.
* This information appeared in the New Jersey Law Journal
A mother who claimed that her son's cognitive defects were due to ingestion of peeling lead based paint accepted $825,000 on June 7 to settle her suit against a landlord. Jonathan Rodriguez will receive monthly payments of $2,968 at age 18, which likely will yield more than $6 million.
According to the suit, Teresa Perez asked her landlord, Maurice Wolfe, to remove the peeling paint when Jonathan was 2 years old. After six months went by with no response, a test showed such high levels of lead that Jonathan was hospitalized for removal of the lead.
Perez sued in Hudson County in 2003 over Jonathan's neurodevelopmental disabilities, cognitive defects and learning disabilities.
(This information appeared in the New Jersey Law Journal)
An Atlantic County jury handed up a $4 million verdict on May 31 in a medical malpractice suit over a casino worker's fatal heart attack, but a high-low agreement will cap recovery at $800,000. Amilcan Rodriguez died while being airlifted from Newcomb Medical Center in Vineland to Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia for an emergency cardiac catheterization.
Rodriguez's estate sued their primary care physician Jodi Abramowitz and a consulting cardiologist Mahesh Ghayal. The jury found that for the 14 months Rodriguez was her patient, Abramowitz failed to diagnose his coronary artery disease. At one point, she diagnosed him as suffering from malignant hypertension yet sent him home.
But the jury also found Rodriguez 20 percent liable for having delayed a visit to the cardiologist for six weeks after Abramowitz told him to go.
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On June 1, 2005, a Bedminster woman agreed on a settlement of $975,000 for brain injuries sustained from a head-on auto collision. On April 30, 1998, on Route 206 in Chester, an oncoming vehicle crossed the center line and hit Gail Osborne’s car. An emergency room x-ray after the incident showed no head injuries but a week later, Osborne reported a loss of concentration and balance and was diagnosed with a mild brain injury that hampers her vision.
Osborne has been unable to return to her job as a regional sales manager for a pet supply company. The other driver said a tie rod that broke loose from her car and was found at the scene caused a steering malfunction.
(This information appeared in the New Jersey Law Journal)
Scarred by a fire in their mother's minivan in 2002, the four Bigelow brothers of Georgetown will each receive undisclosed monthly cash payments for the rest of their lives under a settlement approved Tuesday in a federal court in Austin.
The brothers — Brandon, 11; Jerry Nicholas, 9; Justin, 8; and Sean, 5 — were burned after one of them set the fire when their mother, Veronica Bigelow, left them briefly alone in the van Nov. 12, 2002.
A year later, the boys' father, Jerry L. Bigelow of Bastrop, sued the importer of the lighter used to start the fire, New York Lighter Co. Inc., claiming product liability and negligence.
U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel approved the settlement.
The terms were not stated in court, and Yeakel ordered documents containing the settlement amount sealed, but he described it as a "substantial amount of money."
Outside court, Jerry Bigelow said that the boys are doing well, though Sean, the most seriously injured, is old enough to begin to feel different because he has no fingers and his skin is scarred.
"He's starting to feel the full impact of what happened to his body," he said.
The boys will be paid different amounts based on the severity of their injuries, according to hearing testimony. Jerry and Veronica Bigelow, who have joint custody of the children, will not receive any money under the settlement but will have access to a special fund set up to help with expenses related to the boys' medical care.
Lawyers in the case said that a jury could have gone either way.
~Steven Kretak, American Statesman
