If you were hurt in Sussex, Morris, or Warren County because someone else was careless, Laddey Clark & Ryan can help. Our personal injury team, Timothy E. Dinan, Meghan L. Steingall, and Travis W. Nunziato, has recovered millions for injured clients. Tim Dinan is a Certified Civil Trial Attorney, and the firm’s verdicts have been inducted into the New Jersey Law Journal Hall of Fame.
Our legal team has years of experience representing and fighting for injury victims here in New Jersey, and we’re prepared to put that experience to work for you as well. Contact Laddey Clark & Ryan, LLP today to schedule your free case evaluation. Call 973-604-4676 or use the form on this page. There is no fee unless we recover for you.
Here at Laddey, Clark & Ryan, LLP, we’re proud of our accomplishments and what they mean to our many clients. Here is what sets our injury practice apart:
We proudly fight for victims of negligence in a wide range of circumstances here in Sussex County and around the state of New Jersey. Each case type below has its own page with more detail.
As you may know, serious crashes occur virtually every single day around the state of New Jersey. In most cases, these crashes are a direct result of driver negligence, meaning most of them are actually entirely avoidable with some caution. If you were hurt in a motor vehicle crash because of someone else’s negligence, you can turn to a seasoned Sussex County personal injury lawyer from our firm to fight for the maximum compensation to which you are entitled. We proudly help clients who’ve been harmed in the following:
Property owners are responsible for ensuring their premises are safe for all those who lawfully use them. Unfortunately, property owners sometimes fall short, and individuals are injured as a result. Our legal team handles a wide range of premises liability cases on behalf of those injured, including:
To win a personal injury claim, you and your personal injury lawyer will have to satisfy the burden of proof. Put simply, you’ll need to prove that you were hurt because of someone else’s negligence. There are various types of evidence we can use to fulfill the burden of proof in your personal injury claim, including:
These are just some of the most useful forms of evidence when it comes to satisfying the burden of proof, and ultimately, if you have any other type of evidence in your possession that you think may be useful, go ahead and bring it to your initial consultation with our firm.
In most cases, two years from the date of injury under N.J.S.A. 2A:14-2 (the two-year statute of limitations). If a public entity is at fault: a town, a school district, NJ Transit: you must also serve a notice of claim under the New Jersey Tort Claims Act within 90 days of the accident.
For injured minors, the two-year clock generally does not start until age 18.
Oftentimes, after sustaining an injury, people will wait and see if the injury heals on its own before filing a personal injury claim. While it’s understandable that you most likely don’t want to jump right into the legal process, the truth is, you only have a limited time to do so. The 90-day Tort Claims Act deadline is the one that catches people locally: a fall at a Sussex County school, a crash with a municipal truck or an injury on county property all fall under it.
Further, the sooner you bring your claim, the sooner we can recover the compensation you need. If you wait past the deadline, you will likely be permanently time-barred from suing. Don’t let this happen. Reach out to our Sussex County personal injury lawyers today.
It depends on three things: how clear the other party’s fault is, how serious and permanent your injury is, and how much insurance is available. New Jersey allows you to recover both economic damages (bills and lost income) and non-economic damages (pain and suffering).
No lawyer can quote a number until the medical picture is clear, and you should be wary of one who does.
As long as your injury claim is successful, you should receive compensation for economic damages, including:
You may also recover financial compensation for certain non-economic damages, which are very real, albeit not directly quantifiable damages, including:
New Jersey follows modified comparative negligence (N.J.S.A. 2A:15-5.1). You can recover as long as you were not more than 50% at fault, but your award is reduced by your share of the blame. If you are found 20% at fault on a $100,000 verdict, you receive $80,000. At 51% or more, you receive nothing, which is why insurers work hard to shift fault onto you.
Yes, for medical bills. Your own auto policy’s Personal Injury Protection (PIP) pays your treatment regardless of who caused the crash. Whether you can sue the at-fault driver for pain and suffering depends on which option you chose on your policy: the “limitation on lawsuit” (verbal threshold) option requires a permanent injury, while the “no limitation” option does not.
Most New Jersey drivers carry the limitation on lawsuit threshold because it is cheaper, and many do not know it until after a crash. We review your declarations page at the first meeting. For more, see our posts on New Jersey no-fault insurance and reporting your accident to your insurer.
Nothing up front. We work on a contingency fee, meaning we are paid a percentage of what we recover for you and nothing if we recover nothing. We advance case costs such as filing fees and expert witnesses, and those are repaid only out of a recovery.
Our main office is at 60 Blue Heron Road, Suite 300, Sparta, NJ 07871, a few minutes from Lake Mohawk and the Route 15 corridor, with a second office in Morristown. Our attorneys try cases at the Sussex County Judicial Center on High Street in Newton, the Morris County Courthouse in Morristown, and the Warren County Courthouse in Belvidere.
We see the same crash and fall patterns year after year: rear-end collisions on Route 15 and Route 206, high-speed wrecks on I-80 near Rockaway and Hackettstown, deer strikes on Route 94, winter falls in the lots at Rockaway Townsquare and the ski areas at Mountain Creek and Hidden Valley. We handle cases from Sparta, Newton, Vernon, Hopatcong, Hackettstown, Morristown, and every town in between.
Usually, yes. New Jersey lets you recover as long as you were not more than 50% responsible; your award is reduced by your percentage of fault. Fault is often disputed, and the insurer’s version is not the final word. Photos, witnesses and the police report frequently move that number.
Most cases resolve in one to two years. Simple claims with clear liability can settle in months once treatment ends. Cases that go to trial in Sussex or Morris County typically take two years or more from filing. We do not push a settlement before your doctors know whether your injury is permanent.
Most do not: the majority settle. But insurers pay more to firms that actually try cases, and ours does. We prepare every case as if it will be tried, which is usually what produces the settlement.
Your own policy’s uninsured/underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) coverage steps in. Every New Jersey standard auto policy includes it. We handle the UM/UIM claim against your own insurer, which can be as adversarial as a claim against a stranger.
Sometimes. Public entities are protected by the Tort Claims Act, which requires notice within 90 days and immunizes towns for many ordinary sidewalk defects. If the sidewalk fronts a commercial property, the business owner is usually responsible for maintaining it. We sort out who is liable before the 90 days run.
Report the accident to your own insurer, as your policy requires. Do not give a recorded statement to the other driver’s insurer. Adjusters are trained to get admissions that reduce your claim. Refer them to us.
Yes, at any time. You will not pay two fees; the attorneys divide a single contingency fee based on the work each did. We regularly take over cases from other firms, including cases already in litigation.
We know that a severe injury can significantly affect a person’s life. That’s why our firm is here to hold all negligent parties civilly accountable for their actions. If you need a team of injury lawyers you can trust to effectively represent you, you’re in the right place. We proudly represent clients throughout New Jersey from our offices in Sparta and Morristown, including Morris County, Passaic County, Warren County, Essex County, and Bergen County. Contact Laddey Clark & Ryan, LLP today to schedule your free initial consultation with Timothy E. Dinan, Meghan L. Steingall, or Travis W. Nunziato. Call 973-604-4676 or send the form below. No fee unless we win.
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