Carla Baranauckas

The Third Circuit on Wednesday flagged ambiguities in the federal law governing pandemic relief for businesses in the case of an IT services company seeking forgiveness of a $7.2 million loan for payroll costs, with one judge suggesting the "vagueness and confusion" resulted from hasty policymaking during the COVID-19 emergency.

A Garden State police officer who contracted long COVID after responding to a nursing home emergency won reinstatement of his accidental disability retirement benefits Monday, after a New Jersey appeals panel ruled that the pension board acted arbitrarily in denying his claim despite medical evidence and credibility findings in his favor.

A Connecticut-based tour operator can force into arbitration a wrongful-death lawsuit involving a hippopotamus attack that killed a New Jersey woman while she and her husband were on safari in Zambia, a state judge ruled.

A Connecticut-based tour operator can force into arbitration a wrongful-death lawsuit involving a hippopotamus attack that killed a New Jersey woman while she and her husband were on safari in Zambia, a state judge ruled.

Widener University has agreed to pay $800,000 to settle a proposed class action accusing the school of failing to provide the in-person education and campus services students paid for during the spring 2020 semester, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced classes online.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey has agreed to pay the state $100 million to resolve allegations that it fraudulently secured a multibillion-dollar contract to administer public employee health plans and then systematically overcharged taxpayers for years, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced Friday.

A New Jersey state senator has introduced legislation intended to rescue Daniel's Law from mounting constitutional challenges, saying the state's judicial-privacy statute has been weakened by 2023 amendments that have spawned confusion, lawsuits and compliance problems for businesses and public agencies.

A former New Jersey schools superintendent urged a state appellate court on Thursday to vacate an arbitration award that ended his career, claiming that the arbitrator relied on "uncharged character assassination" and violated state law by admitting new allegations midhearing.

Three injured riders from Pennsylvania and New York asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject New Jersey Transit's bid to escape two negligence suits on interstate sovereign immunity grounds, arguing that the transit agency is legally distinct from the State of New Jersey and should not be insulated from being sued in courts outside the state.

NJ Panel Revives Compensation Case In $95M Real Estate Deal

A New Jersey appellate panel revived a dispute Monday over whether a Manhattan real estate executive was fully compensated for his work on a $95 million redevelopment project, ruling that a trial judge wrongly granted summary judgment despite ambiguities in the parties' complex profit-sharing agreement.

Conduent Business Services LLC has been hit with a barrage of class action lawsuits in New Jersey federal court alleging it failed to adequately protect sensitive personal and health information of more than 10.5 million individuals that were compromised in a major data breach.

Conduent Business Services LLC has been hit with a barrage of class action lawsuits in New Jersey federal court alleging it failed to adequately protect sensitive personal and health information of more than 10.5 million individuals that were compromised in a major data breach.

The New York Jets urged a New Jersey state judge Friday to send to arbitration a former finance executive's case alleging retaliatory firing after her husband reported sexual harassment by the team's president, arguing that the ex-employee had signed a clear arbitration agreement.

Prudential Financial Inc. agreed to pay $4.75 million to end a class claim alleging it failed to protect its clients' personal information after it acknowledged that its systems were compromised in a February hacking incident, according to a memorandum filed in New Jersey federal court.

New Jersey Supreme Court justices appeared open on Monday to reviving a community health clinic patient's injury suit, questioning whether the organization's archived web pages and general claims of patient education qualified it for protection under the state's Charitable Immunity Act.

New Jersey Supreme Court justices appeared open on Monday to reviving a community health clinic patient's injury suit, questioning whether the organization's archived web pages and general claims of patient education qualified it for protection under the state's Charitable Immunity Act.

NJ Justices Unsure Charity Immunity Applies To Clinic

New Jersey Supreme Court justices appeared open on Monday to reviving a community health clinic patient's injury suit, questioning whether the organization's archived web pages and general claims of patient education qualified it for protection under the state's Charitable Immunity Act.

A New Jersey state judge handed a win Friday to conservative radio host Bill Spadea and Townsquare Media in a defamation suit by a child psychologist who claimed the broadcaster defamed him by saying on air that he should be indicted for child abuse.