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Monmouth County Car Accident Lawyer: Why Local Experience Matters After Your Crash

Have You Been Injured in a Monmouth County Car Accident? Here’s What You Need to Know Are you dealing with mounting medical bills after a car accident on the Garden State Parkway? Are insurance adjusters pressuring you to accept a settlement that doesn’t even cover your lost wages? If you’re one of the hundreds of […]

Portnoi & Reed Car Accident Lawyers Recognized in 2025 Super Lawyers List

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March 20, 2025 At Portnoi & Reed, P.C., we are more than just accident lawyers—we are your dedicated advocates when you need us most. Today, we are proud to announce a significant achievement that reflects our commitment to excellence: both of our firm’s attorneys have been recognized in the prestigious 2025 New Jersey Super Lawyers […]

A Word to the Wise About Insurance

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How much insurance is too much? The short answer is you never have too much insurance. As a business entity, you literally can never be over-insured. As an individual, the same holds true. If possible, you should be carrying as much insurance as is available to you and then supplement the policy with an umbrella […]

How Much is My Case Worth?

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This has to be one of the most frequently asked questions that I face in the practices of personal injury and workers’ compensation upon meeting with a new client. If my client was recently injured in an accident, the unfortunate answer, in most instances, is that we do not know yet what the full value […]

Civil v. Criminal Trial Work

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As an attorney for the last 30+ years I have done mostly trial work. That is, I have spent numerous days, weeks and years in the Courtroom. The layperson has spent hours upon hours camped in front of television sets and has spent much of that time watching crime dramas. In relatively recent years a […]

Workers’ Compensation New Law Signed by the Governor of NJ

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On August 22, 2024, the Governor of New Jersey signed S-2822 into law. This new law increases the cap on Workers’ Compensation attorney’s fees from the current limit of 20% to 25%, subject to judicial discretion as always. Workers’ Compensation attorneys are, in most cases, paid out of the client’s award at the time of […]

What is the difference between Comprehensive v. Collision Coverage?

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The question was recently posed to me of whether Comprehensive or Collision coverage applied when a vehicle was damaged as the result of a collision with a pedestrian. In this matter the owner of the vehicle only had Comprehensive coverage. Conventional wisdom is that when a vehicle is involved in a collision with an “animal” […]

Misperceptions of Personal Injury Law and Lawyers

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Much is not understood about Personal Injury Law and the lawyers who represent injured people. What are the most prevalent of those misperceptions? We will attempt to dispel some of those myths below: 1. The client has a significant responsibility in pursuing a “case”. In actuality, a client should only really be concerned about getting […]

How to Value Personal Injury Case

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Inexperienced lawyers and recent Law School graduates have no training in attaching a value to a personal injury claim. Frequently demands are pulled out of thin air with no thought process or logic. There are many ingredients which go into the recipe for making an appropriate demand on an insurance company and getting an appropriate […]