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New Jersey Congressman and Co-Author of NRRA Affirms Dodd-Frank is Not Applicable to Captive Insurance; U.S. Congressman Garrett Supports Coalition for Captive Insurance

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New Jersey Congressman and Co-Author of NRRA Affirms Dodd-Frank is Not Applicable to Captive Insurance; U.S. Congressman Garrett Supports Coalition for Captive Insurance U.S. Congressman Scott Garrett (R-NJ) Montpelier, VT (PRWEB) February 07, 2013 U.S. Congressman Scott Garrett (R-NJ), the co-author and one of the principal sponsors of the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act (NRRA) of the Dodd-Frank Act addressed the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on January 6 to state unequivocally that the legislation was never intended to apply to captive insurance. In addressing the Speaker, Congressman Garrett said, “Unfortunately, several states have indicated that they plan to interpret the NRRA to also apply to the captive insurance industry. This was not the intent of Congress. In drafting this legislation, it was never contemplated to have the captive industry fall under the NRRA”. He went on to state, “At no time was the legislation’s application to the captive i Read more text

Princeton Attorney Anne Studholme to Testify on Behalf of Disability Groups in New Jersey Assembly Hearing on Assisted Suicide

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Princeton Attorney Anne Studholme to Testify on Behalf of Disability Groups in New Jersey Assembly Hearing on Assisted Suicide Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) February 07, 2013 On February 7, 2013, Princeton attorney Anne Studholme will testify on behalf of two national disability rights groups in a hearing held by the New Jersey Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee on a proposed bill to legalize assisted suicide. Studholme will be representing Not Dead Yet and ADAPT, which oppose the legislation. Assembly bill 3328, entitled the “New Jersey Death With Dignity Act,” was introduced by Assemblymen John Burzichelli and Timothy Eustace on September 27, 2012 and is patterned after laws passed by ballot referenda in Oregon and Washington states. Not Dead Yet is described as “a national, grassroots disability rights group that opposes legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia as deadly forms of discrimination against old, ill and disabled people.” ADAPT is described as “a national grass-roots Read more text

Rottenstein Law Group Reports Acceleration of New Jersey Fosamax Femur Fracture Trial Schedule

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Rottenstein Law Group Reports Acceleration of New Jersey Fosamax Femur Fracture Trial Schedule The Rottenstein Law Group, LLP New York, NY (PRWEB) June 18, 2012 The Rottenstein Law Group, which represents clients with claims stemming from the severe side effects of the drug Fosamax, has learned that the first New Jersey state court trials of cases involving femur fractures alleged to be caused by the drug will precede further trials of cases involving other alleged harms. By letter dated June 4, 2012, Superior Court of New Jersey Judge Carol E. Higbee informed counsel for parties to the consolidated Fosamax litigation before her (Case No. 282) that rather than try another osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) case next, she will “move to the trial of bellwether cases involving femur fractures.” Judge Higbee had intended to assign a second ONJ case for trial to a judge who is now going to be transferred to a different division of the court; no other judge is available to try the case that was going to come up next. Read more text