$2,400,000 for Fatal Boat Explosion
Gill & Chamas, LLC represented the family of a man who died of injuries sustained in a fishing-boat explosion in Monmouth County. The estate received $2,400,000 after a settlement was...
Chipotle Faces Securities Lawsuit
By Heidi Turner - In the wake of an E. coli outbreak and a norovirus outbreak, Chipotle faces a securities lawsuit and other lawsuits alleging the company attempted to hide the outbreak and...
16 Hospitals fail to report required documents
Sixteen hospitals failed to submit required reports related to contaminated scopes. The Los Angeles Times reported that a “Senate investigation of deadly infections spread by contaminated scopes found that not one...
New Jersey man sues over May Amtrak derailment
New Jersey Local News reported a Livingston man Monday filed a lawsuit in New Jersey over what he said were “serious, painful and permanent injuries” he sustained in the May 12,...
Supreme Court declines to hear J&J’s appeal of $140 million verdict
Reuters reports that the US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear Johnson & Johnson’s appeal of a $140 million Massachusetts jury verdict that found the company liable for failing...
N.J. Amazon plant didn’t report workplace injuries
Kevin Shea | For NJ.com - The U.S. Department of Labor has fined Amazon's Robbinsville fulfillment center $7,000 for not documenting 26 instances of work-related injuries and illnesses on required logs,...
Man sues Chipotle; fell ill months before big outbreak
A 27-year-old Seattle man is suing Chipotle restaurants after he was infected with E. coli in July during an undisclosed outbreak tied to the fast-food chain. Three months later, Chipotle...
Walmart, Wegmans food recalls
Reuters reports that, according to a release by the US Agricultural Department, Minnesota-based Huisken Meat Company, a supplier to Wal-Mart, has recalled approximately 90,000 pounds of beef products that may be...
$1.8 Million for Injured Worker
On November 9, 2015, a laborer who was injured at a landfill agreed to a $1.8 million settlement. A 40-year-old man was working at a landfill in East Brunswick when...
Problem Blood Clot Filters
A company that made a blood-clot filter associated with 27 deaths and hundreds of problems replaced the device with a modified version that it knew had similar and potentially fatal...
