Gil v. Clara Maass Medical Center, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2017). This was a medical malpractice case. The appeal, however, resulted from the Law Division’s grant of summary judgment in favor of certain insurers, which threw out plaintiff’s claim that the allegedly negligent physician, Dr. Copur, was the covered hospital’s “employee” or a “leased worker,” or that the doctor’s limited liability company, FirstChoice OB/GY
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Judge Fisher and a “Leviathan of a Case”
Posted by Bruce D. Greenberg on Apr 27, 2017 in Appellate Division, Constitutional law, Judges, Notable opinion writing, Summary judgment | 0 comments
Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited v. SAC Capital Management, LLC, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2017). Judge Fisher often is able to write remarkably concise opinions, as shown (for example here and
Noren v. Heartland Payment Systems, Inc., 449 N.J. Super. 193 (App. Div. 2017). On February 6, 2017, the Appellate Division issued a published opinion in this case, which was discussed here. In that opinion, the panel dismissed defendant’s cross-appeal from the denial of its motion for summary judgment because defendant had not included in the appellate a
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