908-490-0444Appellate Division Says Equitable Subrogation Not Precluded by New Lender’s Actual Knowledge of Intervening Mortgage
March 19, 2021
The typical loan used to finance the purchase of a home is secured by a mortgage. If the homeowner defaults in the repayment of the loan, the lender can foreclose the mortgage and ultimately secure a judicial sale of the property. If the property is subject to a second mortgage, say for a home equity […]
Read Full ArticleWhistleblower Case Settles for $175,000 Payment Plus Five Months Terminal Leave
March 11, 2021
Schiller, Pittenger & Galvin, P.C., successfully represented a Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office forensic investigator who suffered employment retaliation due to his reporting of investigative techniques by other law enforcement officers that were improper and violated applicable guidelines. The case was brought pursuant to the Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA). The client remained employed throughout the […]
Read Full Article$230,000 Settlement for Motor Vehicle Accident
February 5, 2020
Schiller, Pittenger & Galvin, P.C., represented a 57 year old male who suffered a back injury, requiring surgery, in a motor vehicle accident. He has made a relatively good recovery from his injuries.
Read Full Article$350,000 Settlement for Motor Vehicle Accidents
February 5, 2020
Schiller, Pittenger & Galvin, P.C., represented a mother and daughter involved in consecutive motor vehicle accidents. Both sustained neck, back and shoulder injuries and were treated by an orthopedist. Their injuries were alleged to be permanent in nature.
Read Full Article$750,000 Settlement for Slip and Fall on Ice
January 23, 2020
Schiller, Pittenger & Galvin, P.C., represented a 39-year old male who slipped and fell on ice in front of a commercial building, fracturing two bones in his ankle. The client has undergone two arthroscopic ankle surgeries with the probability of a third. He continues with plates and screws in his ankle and his pain is […]
Read Full ArticleA Tax Lot May not be a Zoning Lot
September 13, 2019
The present zoning enabling statute, the Municipal Land Use Law, defines a lot as “a designated parcel, tract or area of land established by a plat or otherwise, as permitted by law and to be used, developed or built upon as a unit.” (I will call this a “zoning lot.”)The identification of a zoning lot […]
Read Full ArticleBusinesses Should Review Consumer Contracts to Assure Compliance with the Consumer Review Fairness Act
August 14, 2019
The internet has greatly expanded the ability of customers to review the products and services offered by businesses and the public availability of such reviews. Not only are there third-party websites where consumers can review all variety of businesses, but some online sellers provide the ability to review products right on the page where the […]
Read Full Article$325,000 Settlement For Motor Vehicle Accident
March 28, 2019
Schiller, Pittenger & Galvin, P.C., represented a 43-year old woman who sustained shoulder, low back and knee injuries when her vehicle was broadsided by a school bus that failed to yield at a stop sign. Treatment included multiple therapeutic injections as well as arthroscopic shoulder surgery for a torn rotator cuff.
Read Full ArticleNJ Supreme Court Strikes Down Arbitration Clause Based on Theory of Mutuality of Assent under Ordinary Person Test
March 6, 2019
Both the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U.S.C. §§ 1 to 16, and the New Jersey Arbitration Act (NJAA), N.J.S.A. 2A:23B-1 to -32, encourage enforcement of arbitration agreements and speak to the general principle that such agreements are to be favored by the courts. Recently, the United States Supreme Court in Kindred Nursing Ctrs. L.P. […]
Read Full Article$725,000 Settlement in Motor Vehicle Accident
February 7, 2019
Schiller, Pittenger & Galvin, P.C., represented a 30-year old man who, while operating his motor vehicle in a lawful manner in Paterson, New Jersey, was struck by another vehicle traveling the wrong way on a one way street. The vehicle driven by the defendant did not stop at the intersection and broadsided the plaintiff’s vehicle, […]
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