Richard P. Console Personal Injury Law Blog

Recovering from an accident shouldn't involve fighting your insurance company to pay out on your policy properly. Sadly, your insurer may engage in bad faith practices to break you will, increase your desperation and force you to settle for an amount that's less than you deserve. ... Read More

Choosing between verbal threshold and zero threshold auto coverage in New Jersey is an important decision that can affect your ability to sue for damages in an accident. Selecting a coverage option simply to save money on your auto insurance won't help pay for your medical care and replace lost wages. Knowing the difference between verbal threshold and zero threshold coverage in New Jersey can help you make the best insurance decision to meet your needs.  ... Read More

 
In Pennsylvania, the law requires your auto insurance company to give you the written option of selecting either full tort or limited tort coverage when you purchase a policy. Your insurer may be quick to point out that limited tort coverage is the cheaper of these two options. However, selecting limited tort can greatly limit your rights to damages in the event of a car accident and only provide a small decrease in your monthly insurance premium. Saving a couple hundred... Read More

A string of recalled Meijer products have been resold on the market and the U.S. Consumer Safety Commission wants to warn consumers again on the original recall. Thedefected products range in use and defect and consumers who own these products should immediately stop using them.... Read More

How would you feel as a parent to find out that instead of the fluoride your child was prescribed the pharmacy gave you medicine that was meant to treat breast cancer and your child had been taking that instead? Well that is exactly what happened to a number of children who got their fluoride from a CVS in Chatham, New Jersey. From December 1, 2011 through February 20, 2012 the pharmacy has confirmed that as many as 50 families were involved in the mix-up of children receiving Tamoxifen instead... Read More

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in conjunction with AmerTac have issued a nationwide recall of LED night lights due to a fire and burn hazard. The affected products were sold at hardware stores, lighting stores, and home centers from March 2009 through October 2010.... Read More

The civil justice system is constantly a target of political movements in this country. You always hear a cry for tort reform to stop frivolous lawsuits, but frankly most do not do their homework and actually learn what tort reform is (or how unnecessary it really is). Tort reform is pushed by wealthy, large insurance corporations who bank on the fact that the public is afraid of economic hardship. All they have to do is stick the word ‘epidemic’ with money and everyone will be cryin... Read More

Since late January recalls have been trickling in of more companies recalling their salads because of a massive egg recall. The hard-boiled eggs being recalled by the Food and Drug Administration are believed to be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes.... Read More

On January 9, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie conditionally vetoed the “Hand and Foot Bill,” which was proposing added workers’ compensation for individuals who had injuries to their hands or feet. He has recommended several changes to the bill, which essentially remove the main purpose behind it.... Read More

Last week a bill was unanimously passed in an Assembly panel that would place a limit on when New Jersey personal injury lawyers could contact accident victims. The measure, A4430, would require that these lawyers wait 30 days before they could solicit accident victims via writing. The bill is set to be voted on by the Senate today.... Read More