It’s hard to manage to target more vulnerable groups than the elderly, mentally disabled and nuns, but fraud schemers have set their target on the dead and their emotional families. Funeral fraud is commonly thought…
According to the federal government’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a New Jersey contractor was performing work in Philadelphia in March of this year with multiple scaffolding safety violations. OSHA cited the contractor this month…
Most New Jersey contractors are not aware of the New Jersey Prompt Payment Act, but that doesn’t stop the act from applying to their business. This new act, which is codified under N.J.S.A. 2A:30A-2, applies…
Catastrophic injuries have a number of definitions both legally and medically. These injuries fall under personal injuries but under specific guidelines. For an injury to be considered catastrophic in New Jersey, it must cause severe…
Bernard Shero, 54, was released after serving 4 years, 6 months, and two weeks in jail for crimes that are now believed to have never happened. While Shero has been released 11 ½ years early,…
The Third Circuit has ruled the former top patent attorney for L’Oréal USA Inc. is permitted to proceed with his whistleblower suit. This decision was based on the New Jersey whistleblower laws that protect employees…
PHH Corp, a Mount Laurel, New Jersey-based mortgage company, will pay $74.5 million to resolve the claim that the company generated defective loans that were insured by the federal government then bought by Fannie Mae…
Law360, Philadelphia (September 12, 2017) — Members of Pennsylvania’s highest court questioned Tuesday whether Barrack Rodos & Bacine should be able to rely on state legal ethics rules to avoid claims from a non-attorney consultant…
An unidentified body was found in a plot as the family of a woman tried to lay her to rest at Shalom Memorial Park in Huntingdon Valley this past June. The son of the deceased…
When a medical professional is paid with money or receives other compensation in exchange for being influenced by or giving a company or person something they are looking for, it is considered a kickback. For…