Petrillo & Goldberg Law
Traffic safety includes many factors, not least of which is proper motor vehicle maintenance. Critical items like brakes, tires and air bags can save lives in a potential highway collision. It is particularly important that motor vehicles meet safety standards in the densely populated state of New Jersey. As such, it is unsettling that Garden…
The holiday season has delivered a special gift to motorists in New Jersey and throughout the United States: declining gasoline prices. But while the news of lower prices at the pump has been cause for celebration in the Garden State and elsewhere, less welcome is the growing evidence that as the price of gasoline goes…
New Jersey’s red light camera program ended on December 16, 2014. Motorists across the Garden State, many of whom have resented the possibility of receiving a camera-produced traffic citation, cheered the program’s end. And some municipalities that enjoyed the increased revenue it bought in expressed sadness about its demise. The program’s opposing and supporting camps…
Facing Ebola’s limited spread among a handful of people in United States, questions are being raised about how, in spite of precautions, the deadly virus could have been transmitted to healthcare workers who were entrusted with the care of the patient in Dallas, Texas who died of the disease. The sudden stateside appearance of Ebola…
When Maria Fernandes, 32, of Newark, New Jersey, died on August 25, she was overcome by fumes from an overturned gas can mixed with carbon monoxide from her running car while she was napping inside it. Her sad demise came as she was trying to make ends meet by working at four jobs, driving from…
On July 30, the New Jersey Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision awarding workers’ compensation benefits to the widower of an AT&T employee who died one hour after completing her work. The facts behind the case are unusual, and the high court’s decision, which accounted for a number of newly argued risk factors that…