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"Governor Corzine Lets Down The People of New Jersey"
"Governor Corzine Lets Down The People of New Jersey"
Posted by: Kevin Costello
January 25, 2008
"Governor Corzine Lets Down The People of New Jersey"
For years, the American Association for Justice and the New Jersey Trial Lawyers Association have been trying to wrong a long standing wrong in New Jersey. New Jersey remains one of only 10 states which still do NOT ALLOW pain and suffering damages to survivors when they loose a loved one as a result of negligence. Even conservative states allow these damages now.
Yet even a democratic governor is capable of bowing to corporate pressure. Despite passage by the state Assembly and Senate of an Amendment to the State's Wrongful Death Act which would allow grieving families to collect compensation for their pain and suffering over the loss to negligent death of their loved ones, the Governor "pocket vetoed" the bill, which meant he refused to sign it and let it expire.
