Tag: Sidewalks

Plaintiff Ellen Cavilla tripped over a partially exposed pipe and broke her wrist while fishing in Gaskill Park in April 2015.  She sued Atlantic County for negligence due to her injuries.  The issue in Cavilla v. County of Atlantic, 2020 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 877 (App. Div. May 11, 2020), was whether a negligence claim […]

The plaintiff Richard Underhill parked his car in a municipal parking lot known as the Kaplan Lot located in the Borough of Caldwell.  He walked across the street with his wife and friends to eat dinner at a nearby restaurant.  Upon returning to his parked car, he walked up an internal driveway that connected the […]

The plaintiff, Donna Michel was walking across the parking lot of the Wayne Towne Center when she was struck by a car operated by Sharon Langel.  At the time of the accident, piles of snow on medians at the end of the rows of the parking spaces in the parking lot allegedly impeded Langel’s visibility […]

The plaintiff Alma Miley was involved in an automobile accident with the defendant Andrew Friel.  It occurred at an intersection in which plaintiff’s direction of travel was controlled by a stop sign but defendant’s direction of travel was not.  The issue in Miley v. Friel, 2020 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 57 (App. Div. January 9, […]

On March 30, 2010, the minor, J.H., a 9 month old infant, was burned by an uncovered, free-standing cast iron loop radiator in an apartment owned and managed by defendants R&M Tagliareni, LLC and Robert & Maria Tagliareni. His bed was adjacent to a radiator that did not have a cover. His father discovered him […]