Personal Injury Lawyer, Stafford Township NJ

Yes. An injury that happened in Stafford Township is a New Jersey claim wherever you live, and nearly all of the work can be done from a distance. You treat with your own doctors at home while we collect the records from here, deal with the insurance company, and, if a lawsuit becomes necessary, file it in Ocean County Superior Court, where civil matters are handled at 118 Washington Street in Toms River. New Jersey's deadlines apply to you the same way they apply to a neighbor, including the two-year limit in N.J.S.A. 2A:14-2. Call us from home, because the consultation is free and can be done entirely by phone.

Usually the company that owns or manages the shopping center, and sometimes the tenant store or a maintenance contractor as well. The centers along Route 72 and Stafford Park Boulevard are private property, so this is a negligence claim against a private owner and its insurer rather than a ninety-day claim against a public body. New Jersey requires commercial owners to keep lots, walkways and entrances reasonably safe for customers. What proves it is what disappears first, so photograph the exact spot and your shoes, report the fall so an incident report exists, and get the names of anyone who saw it. Surveillance video is often recorded over within days, so call us early and we will send a written demand that it be kept.

Yes, but a claim against the State carries a ninety-day notice requirement that a claim against a private owner does not. The Route 72 bridges and the walkway along them are State property, so the Tort Claims Act applies, and a written notice of claim under N.J.S.A. 59:8-8 has to be served within ninety days of the injury; missing it can end the claim however serious the injury is. Claims against public bodies are harder to win than claims against a store, because the Tort Claims Act adds requirements of its own, so early evidence counts for more: photographs of the defect with something in the frame for scale, the date and time, and the names of witnesses. Call in the first weeks.

Possibly the business that served the driver. N.J.S.A. 2A:22A-1 et seq., the dram shop statute, lets an injured person bring a claim against a bar or restaurant that kept pouring for a customer who was visibly intoxicated, even though the drinks were served on the island and the crash happened on the mainland. The difficulty here is that the proof is split across the bay. The crash report, the arrest and the breath reading are in Stafford's file in Manahawkin, while the tab, the card slips, the servers and the cameras belong to a business in a different municipality on the island. Tell us where the driver had been, if you know, so demands to preserve both sets of records go out together.

Your own health insurance pays it for now, because a fall in a store is not an automobile claim and there is no PIP coverage behind it. The store's insurer does not pay bills as they arrive; if it pays, it pays once, at the end, in a settlement or a verdict covering all of your treatment, including care back home. Some businesses carry a small medical payments coverage that pays early bills without anyone proving fault, and it is worth asking about in writing. Your health plan may ask to be repaid out of a settlement, which we deal with before the case closes. Give the hospital your health insurance card, keep every bill, and call us before you sign anything the store's insurer sends.