Case Law Summaries

Laidlow v. Hariton Machinery Co., Inc.

WORKERS COMPENSATION — An employer’s deliberate and deceptive disconnection of a machine safety device can constitute a “deliberate wrong,” which may take a claim outside of the workers compensation bar.

• Opinion Date: February 25, 2002
• Business Law

Hollis v. I-Stat Corporation

WORKERS COMPENSATION—Picking up one’s paycheck on a non-work day is incidental to one’s employment and injuries incurred while doing so are compensable by workers compensation.

• Opinion Date: January 18, 2002
• Business Law

Jumpp v. City of Ventnor

WORKERS COMPENSATION; INCIDENTAL DEVIATION — There is a clear legislative mandate sharply curtailing workers compensation benefits for off-premises accidents.

• Opinion Date: May 17, 2002
• Business Law

Valazquez v. Bronish Motors, Inc.

WARRANTIES—Ambiguities in a warranty are to be interpreted to conform with the reasonable expectation of its beneficiary.

• Opinion Date: October 11, 2002
• Business Law

D’Avanzo v. Mobil Dredging & Pumping Co.

WORKERS COMPENSATION; SPECIAL EMPLOYERS — An employee can be deemed to work for more than one employer at a time for purposes of the workers compensation act and there is a five prong test to determining when that is the case.

• Opinion Date: March 5, 2002
• Business Law

Seidenberg v. Summit Bank

WARRANTIES — A claim under the implied warranty of good faith and fair dealing is not negated just because the claimant had equal bargaining power or was not financially vulnerable or engaged talented counsel when negotiating the agreement.

• Opinion Date: February 28, 2002
• Business Law

OTR Associates v. IBC Services, Inc.

VEIL PIERCING —A company that establishes a subsidiary to act as an assetless tenant under a lease, but which acts in ways that cause the landlord to believe that the company, not the subsidiary, will be liable under the lease, will be held liable for the obligations of the subsidiary.

• Opinion Date: July 3, 2002
• Business Law

Brown v. Brown

VALUATION; DIVORCE —Minority and marketability discounts are inapplicable in the ordinary division of marital assets.

• Opinion Date: February 28, 2002
• Business Law

Cutright v. Board of Review

UNEMPLOYMENT —A prior manager’s benevolence in once authorizing a long vacation does not give an employee the right to take such vacations in future years.

• Opinion Date: November 21, 2002
• Business Law

Vitelli v. Board of Review

UNEMPLOYMENT; LEAVE OF ABSENCE — Even though obtaining proper permission for a leave of absence may be cumbersome, taking a leave without employer permission constitutes leaving one’s job without good cause.

• Opinion Date: September 8, 2002
• Business Law