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NJ Supreme Court Rules That NJ Uniform Securities Law Does Not Bar Investment Adviser From Seeking Damages Over Verbal Job Offer

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The Supreme Court of New Jersey recently cast doubt on the applicability of the federal “family office” exception for investment advisers under the New Jersey Uniform Securities Law (NJUSL) while allowing the plaintiff to...more

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N.J. Supreme Court Sends Auto Dealer Disputes to Arbitration

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On Wednesday, June 5, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in favor of enforcing arbitration agreements in car purchase agreements. The case, Goffe v. Foulke Mgmt. Corp., reverses the New Jersey Court’s recent trend of setting...more

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N.J. Supreme Court Finds Material Breach by Company That Knowingly Refused to Cooperate with Arbitration Demands Filed in...

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The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that a company’s refusal to cooperate with plaintiffs’ arbitration demands was a material breach of their arbitration agreement, which barred the company from later compelling...more

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Subcontractor Exception Torpedoes Insurers’ Defense To Faulty Workmanship Claim

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As this blog has reported, a line of cases deciding coverage disputes over faulty workmanship runs against (or, at least, around) a basic rule for interpreting insurance policies. Under that rule, the scope of coverage is...more

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New Jersey Supreme Court Affirms General Contractor’s Insurance Coverage for Consequential Damages Caused by a Subcontractor’s...

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In an important recent decision, New Jersey joined a growing number of states holding that Insurance Services Office’s (ISO) 1986 comprehensive general liability (CGL) policy extends coverage to a property developer faced...more

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Prejudice Not Required in New Jersey To Deny Coverage for Late Notice Under a Claims Made Policy

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On February 11, 2016, the Supreme Court of New Jersey in Templo Fuente de Vida Corp. v. National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, declared that an insurance company was not required to show it suffered prejudice before...more

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Policyholders Beware: Failure to Give Timely Notice, as Soon as Practicable During a Claims-Made Policy's Effective Dates or...

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The New Jersey Supreme Court recently held that an insurer may disclaim coverage without showing it was prejudiced by a policyholder’s failure to comply with a claims-made policy’s notice provision. In Templo Fuente De...more

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