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That’s What I Said, Not What I Meant

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It is estimated that over 80 percent of tax cases settle before a hearing is held. While this is generally a positive result for both taxpayers and Departments of Revenue, sometimes the fine print is overlooked—especially...more

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Update: NJDEP v. DuPont/Chemours PFAS Trial/3M Settlement Comment Period Commenced and Runs through September 19, 2025

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DuPont/Chemours Trial. On June 30, 2025, the next bench trial phase or “mini-trial” commenced in NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIROMENTAL PROTECTION, ET AL., VS. E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, ET AL., Docket No....more

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NJDEP v. DuPont/Chemours PFAS Trial Continues/Public Comment Period on Proposed Comprehensive Settlement for 3M Expected to...

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On June 30, 2025 the next bench trial phase or “mini-trial” commences in NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIROMENTAL PROTECTION, ET AL., VS. E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, ET AL., Docket No. 19-cv-14766 (RMB/JBC) before the...more

Marshall Dennehey

New Jersey Revises Jury Charge on Proximate Cause in Legal Malpractice

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A recent update to New Jersey’s Model Civil Jury Charges marks a significant development in legal malpractice law—and directly reflects the work of attorneys in our Mount Laurel, New Jersey office, Jack Slimm and Jeremy...more

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3M Agrees to Enter into Settlement with State of New Jersey and Pay up to $450 Million to Resolve Present and Future PFAS...

On May 12, 2025, 3M announced an agreement with the State of New Jersey to resolve two sets of legal liabilities related to PFAS contamination: (1) all claims that the company is currently facing or has faced related to PFAS...more

Goldberg Segalla

Breaking News: Significant PFAS Settlement in New Jersey

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Another major settlement was announced this week in New Jersey in consolidated cases filed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and other state entities. (You can review the Judicial Consent Order here as...more

Stark & Stark

Slip, Trip, and Fall Accidents: What You Do Next Matters

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In my years representing seriously injured clients throughout New Jersey, I’ve seen just how devastating a simple slip, trip, or fall can be. A cracked sidewalk or uneven paver stones, a wet grocery store floor, or a poorly...more

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Affordable Housing Clock Ticks Toward June 2025 Deadline in New Jersey’s Fourth Round

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The latest round of affordable housing development in New Jersey is well underway, with a key deadline for municipalities and developers fast approaching on June 30, 2025. This fourth round — spanning 2025 to 2035 — is...more

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NJ Court Rules Medicare Set-Aside Funds Excluded from Workers’ Comp Attorney Fee Calculations

A recent ruling concerning a workers’ compensation case in New Jersey reaffirmed that Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) funds should not be included in the calculation of attorney fees. The case involved a reopener application for a...more

Flaster Greenberg PC

ARE YOU TALKING TO ME? New Jersey imposes further limits on non-disparagement clauses.

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The Supreme Court of New Jersey has just made it even harder for employers to prevent harmful comments from employees and former employees. Specifically, non-disparagement clauses have been the primary tool employers use to...more

Mintz

If a thorn of experience is worth a wilderness of warning then what happened this week in NJ is a whopper of a PFAS thorn

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James Russell Lowell wrote that one thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. This week's nearly 400 million dollar settlement between a New Jersey plastic manufacturer and the State of New Jersey over the...more

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EyeMed Data Breach Multistate Settlement

EyeMed recently entered into a settlement with the Attorneys General of Oregon, New Jersey, Florida and Pennsylvania around a 2020 breach of an EyeMed email account that contained the data of more than 2 million individuals....more

Chartwell Law

The Chartwell Chronicles: An Overview of New Jersey Workers' Compensation

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In Episode 1 of The Chartwell Chronicles, hosts Colin Davis and Brittany Atkinson cover the basics of workers' compensation claims in New Jersey. This episode is geared toward providing useful information to listeners who are...more

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States Catch Health Care Entities Taking the Bait in Phishing Attacks

The State Attorneys General in New York and New Jersey recently settled with four companies over alleged HIPAA noncompliance following phishing attacks. The New Jersey settlements were brought against three NJ-based cancer...more

White and Williams LLP

District of New Jersey Court Clarifies Primary Insurer’s Duty of Good Faith to Excess Insurer

A primary insurer has a duty of good faith to an excess insurer to attempt to negotiate a settlement with a third-party claimant within the primary insurer’s limits. However, determining whether that duty of good faith was...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Small NJ Medical Practice Becomes 18th Target Of OCR’s HIPAA Right Of Access Enforcement Initiative

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A small New Jersey plastic surgery practice, Village Plastic Surgery (“VPS”), has become the eighteenth HIPAA covered entity to face an enforcement action under the Office for Civil Right’s HIPAA Right of Access Initiative....more

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