Personal Injury Lawyer, Manchester Township NJ

Not necessarily. New Jersey allows a qualifying community association to adopt a bylaw barring a unit owner's ordinary negligence claim against the association, but that protection does not reach willful, wanton or grossly negligent conduct, and it is written for claims by unit owners, so a guest or other non-owner stands differently. It is also a separate question whether someone else, such as the contractor hired to clear ice or repair the walkway, shares responsibility. Bring the bylaws, or simply the name of the management office, to the free consultation, and photograph the spot before it melts or is repaired.

No, not for that reason. Lost income is only one category of damages, and a retiree's claim rests on the others: medical expenses, pain and suffering, disability, and the loss of the independent life you had before, whether that meant driving yourself, living without help or walking to the clubhouse. Insurers do argue that age shrinks a claim, and the answer is evidence of what your days looked like before and after, from your doctors, your family and your neighbors. Keep a short daily journal of what you can no longer do, and call us before you speak with an adjuster.

Yes, because Ocean Ride is operated by Ocean County, which makes it a claim against a public entity. Under the Tort Claims Act, N.J.S.A. 59:8-8, a written notice of claim has to be served within ninety days of the injury, long before the two-year deadline for a lawsuit, and the notice has required contents. Ocean Ride routes serve Whiting and the rest of the township, and riders rarely realize the clock is that short. Write down the date, the time, the route and the bus number if you have it, and call us right away.

You have to show that the business knew, or reasonably should have known, about the hazard and failed to fix it or warn you in time. Of the two deadlines on this page a store fall runs on the two-year one, N.J.S.A. 2A:14-2, because the shops where Route 70 meets County Routes 530 and 539 are privately owned. The store's insurer may say a younger customer would have kept their footing; your age is not a defense, since the test is whether the hazard should have been there, not whether someone else might have stepped over it. Tell the manager before you leave, write down the incident report number, and ask in writing that the camera footage be saved.

Yes, you can make the first call, and we will tell you where things stand. The claim itself belongs to your mother, so she signs the agreement hiring us unless someone holds her power of attorney or a court has appointed a guardian. What helps most early is what you can gather: photographs of where she fell, the incident report from the management office, the names of neighbors or staff who saw it, her discharge papers, and her Medicare and supplemental insurance cards. The consultation is by phone, so nobody has to travel. Do not let anyone take a recorded statement from her before we talk.