Tag: mode of operation doctrine

Our firm recently prevailed on a Motion to Bar the report of a Plaintiff’s Expert as “Net Opinion,” which then led the Court to grant our Motion for Summary Judgment on behalf of our client.  The matter was Broome v. ShopRite of Millville, et al., venued in Cumberland County, Docket No. L-468-18.  This favorable disposition […]

The plaintiff, Mia Alers-Alvira, was leaving the Red Lobster restaurant when she slipped and fell on the last of three steps that led to the entrance/exit pathway of the Red Lobster.  She claimed that she fell on the oily residue on these concrete steps.  In the case of Alers-Alvira v. Red Lobster Restaurant, Inc., 2020 […]

In the published Appellate Division decision, Pickett v. Moore’s Lounge, 2020 N.J. Super. LEXIS 208 (App. Div. August 25, 2020), the Court was asked to decide whether insurance coverage existed as to the defendant tavern to cover the lawsuit against it for the fatal shooting of one its patrons. The tavern’s insurance company, Northfield Insurance […]

The lawyer representing the plaintiff Carolyn Repko (“Repko”) filed a lawsuit in her name in September 2018, not knowing that she had died nine months previously.  He filed suit against the defendant Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Inc. (“Lourdes”) due to plaintiff’s fall which had occurred in September 2016.  The issue in Repko v. […]

In a published Appellate Division decision, Hocutt v. Minda Supply Co., 2020 N.J. Super. LEXIS 201 (App. Div. August 7, 2020), the Appellate Division addressed whether the plaintiff employee (Carlton Hocutt III) qualified as a “special employee” of the defendant Minda Supply Company (“Minda”), whether his claim was barred by the Workers’ Compensation Act (“WCA”), […]