Personal Injury Lawyer, Little Egg Harbor Township NJ

An owner who lives in another state still answers in New Jersey for a fall at a Mystic Island house, because the claim arises from the property and is normally paid by the liability policy on it. The question is whether the stairs were in a state the owner knew about or would have found by inspecting them with reasonable care, and salt air and weather work on outdoor wood quickly. Save what shows the stairs as they were that day: your photographs, the listing photos, your messages with whoever gave you the keys. If a rental agent or manager had taken on the upkeep, that company can be responsible too. Keep the shoes you were wearing, and let us deal with the owner's insurer.

Ninety days for the written notice and two years for the lawsuit itself, because the marsh along Great Bay Boulevard is a state wildlife management area and the State is a public entity under the Tort Claims Act, N.J.S.A. 59:8-8. The notice window generally opens the day you were hurt, not the day you learn how serious the injury is, and missing it can end a claim that the two-year rule would still allow. Which agency actually owns and controls the spot must be pinned down first, because the notice is served on that body and nowhere else. Public entities also have immunities a private marina or homeowner does not. Call us now and we will identify the owner and serve the notice.

No, a lawsuit does not mean regular trips to Toms River. The complaint is filed electronically by your lawyer with the Superior Court for Ocean County, whose civil division sits at 118 Washington Street, and much of what follows happens on paper: written questions that you answer with our help, and records traded between the law offices. The dates that can call for you in person are few, such as your deposition, an examination by a doctor the defense selects, and a court session or a trial in Toms River if the case is not resolved first. We give you long notice of each one and prepare you for it. Ask us on the first call how this would work for your case.

Not necessarily, because the question is notice rather than weather. An owner is responsible for a hazard he knew about or would have found on a reasonable inspection, so what matters is how long the break had been there, not the storm that made it. A break that sat through a season tends to help the claim rather than end it. Photographs, any repair estimate or permit, and neighbours who saw the bulkhead in that condition are what fix the time it sat. Photograph the break with the house in the frame before anyone repairs it.

Because the adjuster is building a shared-fault argument before you have a lawyer. Under N.J.S.A. 2A:15-5.1 each side in an injury case is assigned a percentage of the fault and yours comes off the award, so every answer you give about your clothes or your position in the lane is worth money to the insurer. The questions that actually decide these cases are about the driver: speed, the room left while passing, attention to the road, and what could be seen at that hour. On a road where cars, walkers and bicycles share the same pavement out to the lagoons, those are the facts worth arguing over. Decline a recorded statement politely, and call us first.