Negligent entrustment is a legal theory that allows the injured to hold car owners responsible for damages caused by someone who was borrowing the owner's car at the time of the accident. To explain why this is important, first let's discuss negligence in general. Put...
Motor Vehicle Accidents
Three members of family killed, fourth injured in truck accident
Accidents involving large trucks can be much more deadly than typical collisions between two cars. Commercial truck crashes also raise legal issues that are different from the usual issues in motor vehicle accident cases. Recently in New Jersey, three members of a...
Several hospitalized after multi-vehicle New Jersey car accident
Driving on the freeway gives many drivers anxiety behind the wheel. After all, with several lanes of traffic whizzing by on either side, often at speeds greater than 70 mph, it can make any driver a little uneasy. One wrong move made by another driver can lead to a...
Three injured in Bobcat accident in New Jersey
Bobcats are small versions of larger front-end loaders, and they are familiar sights whenever heavy lifting is required in small spaces. The handy little vehicles generally do not travel on highways in New Jersey, and they are seldom involved in motor vehicle...
Bus company to pay $7 million in motor vehicle accident case
Yellow school buses are generally regarded as a benign presence on New Jersey's roads and highways, but occasionally they become involved in serious motor vehicle accidents. For example, a wrongful death case out of Monroe Township, Gloucester County, involving a...
Driver of box truck killed in collision with tractor-trailer
Trucks traveling on interstate highways often appear to be invulnerable to people who are driving sedans and SUVs. These trucks travel at high speeds, and their size makes them seem impervious to harm in a collision. Unfortunately, when trucks collide with other...
Understanding motor vehicle accident reconstruction
Many newspaper reports on traffic accidents in New Jersey describe the chronology of the accident in great detail, but many such reports end with the words, "The cause of the accident is under investigation." What is being investigated? Who is doing the investigation?...
Understanding New Jersey’s comparative fault law
Personal injury law in New Jersey and elsewhere is based on the concept of "negligence." The law expects people to use reasonable care in their daily activities. A person who fails to use reasonable care is deemed to have been negligent, and that person is liable for...
Multi-vehicle accident kills couple driving to their wedding
State troopers in New Jersey witness a great many fatal traffic accidents in their careers, and most of them develop emotional shields to protect their sanity. Occasionally, however, the circumstances of a particular accident pierce this shield and haunt a trooper's...
What is a wrongful death action in New Jersey?
According to multiple news reports, a woman and a child were killed in Chester, New Jersey, when a tractor-trailer smashed into an SUV driven by a third person. The accident is still being investigated by law enforcement officials, but it appears that the truck driver...