Permanency

Plaintiff Yireika De La Rosa went to defendant LA Gypsy restaurant with a friend.  She drank half a beer and went to the restaurant’s restroom.  As she approached the restroom, she noticed maintenance staff spraying a blue liquid, which smelled like ammonia, onto the floor.  Plaintiff passed through the area, felt she could not breathe […]

In Timpanaro v. Jenkinson’s Pavilion, Inc., 2025 N.J. Super. LEXIS 71 (App. Div. Nov. 21, 2025), the estate of Anthony Timpanaro sued Jenkinson’s Pavilion, a boardwalk amusement complex with access to Point Pleasant Beach, for negligence arising from Anthony’s drowning death. The case arose when, a few weeks after Labor Day, 2020, grandfather Anthony and […]

Plaintiff Frances Hice tripped and fell and suffered injuries as a result of an uneven public sidewalk slab on Watchung Avenue in Bloomfield.  The sidewalk abutted a private residence owned by defendants Jose Cruz and Angelica Delacruz.  The sidewalk was adjacent to a road (Watchung Avenue) owned by the County of Essex.  The issue in […]

This matter involved the consequences of a federal court’s dismissal of a case and whether the plaintiff’s subsequently filed state court action was barred by principles of res judicata or other legal doctrines.  Plaintiff Randi Zupko filed a complaint in federal district court against defendants County of Ocean, Scott Waters, and Robert Greitz.  After the […]

Plaintiff Walter Cabezas, as administrator of the Estate of Aldemar Cabezas, filed a wrongful death lawsuit following the death of Aldemar Cabezas who was struck by a vehicle owned by defendant Penske Truck Leasing Co. on September 7, 2021.  Medicare issued a conditional payment letter to plaintiff, stating that Medicare had identified $62,100.82 in conditional […]