Changes

I have changed the name of my blog to add Personal Injury to the title to change things up a little.  On the legal front the New Jersey appellate courts put out an interesting opinion located here.  The case is Kubert v. Best, 2013 WL 4512313 (N.J. Super. App. Div. August 27, 2013). 

The main issue of the case is whether the sender of a text message is liable if the reader crashes.  The New Jersey Court held that the sender may be liable for the injuries incurred if the sender knew the person was driving and "that the sender also knew or had special reason to know that the driver would read the message while driving and thus would be distracted from attending to the road."  It is important to note that it is illegal to text and drive in New Jersey from my understanding.  This is an interesting area where I see the law developing in the next few years.