Auto No Fault A to Z
Date: Sep 20, 2024 9:00 a.m. – 12:35 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, and Online
Member Price: $160
Non-Member Price: $200
Areas of Law: Civil
Earn up to 4 credits! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
Presenters
- Gerald H. Baker, Esq.
- Certified By the Supreme Court of New Jersey As a Civil Trial Attorney
Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins, P.C.Certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, is Counsel to Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins, P.C. with offices in Springfield, Jersey City, Hackensack, Newark, Freehold, Elizabeth and Mt. Laurel, New Jersey; and New York City. He represents plaintiffs in personal injury and wrongful death cases including automobile, premises, aviation, railroad, construction, products liability and medical malpractice, and was formerly the Managing Partner of Baker, Pedersen & Robbins in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Mr. Baker is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; the United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third and Fourth Circuits; and the United States Supreme Court. He is Past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Automobile Reparations Committee, a past Chair of the Legislative Committee and a former member of the NJSBA Board of Trustees. Mr. Baker has been Treasurer of the Hudson County Bar Foundation for many years and is a past President and member of the Board of Trustees of the Hudson County Bar Association. He has served on the Board of Governors of the New Jersey Association for Justice (NJAJ, formerly ATLA-NJ) and is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
Mr. Baker is a frequent lecturer on automobile insurance, premises liability and practice for ICLE, NJAJ, the New Jersey State Bar Foundation and the New Jersey Law Journal, as well as bar associations and other professional organizations. His articles on automobile insurance, premises liability and trial practice have appeared in many newspapers and professional periodicals. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2000 ICLE Alfred C. Clapp Award, the 1994 ATLA-NJ Gold Medal, the 1998 NJSBA Distinguished Legislative Service Award, the Trial Lawyers of New Jersey Trial Lawyer Award and the NJAJ O’Connor Trial Award.
Mr. Baker received his B.A. from Cornell University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He was Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert Matthews, Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, Hudson County.
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This popular yearly seminar returns with new information and cases for 2024. Join Gerald H. Baker, one of the most experienced personal injury attorneys in the nation, as he presents this program on everything you need to know about the latest in no fault.
This conversation includes a detailed review of recent cases, statutes and rules dealing with these issues that every practitioner must understand to better represent clients. This will include a discussion of Goyco vs .Progressive Insurance Company, (whether the operator of a low-speed electric scooter is a “pedestrian” entitled to personal injury protection benefits under the New Jersey No-Fault Act), Brehme vs. Irwin (whether, under the amended PIP statute, any medical bills beyond available PIP benefits are collectible at trial and whether a right to appeal is waived by the plaintiff’s receipt and acceptance of the judgement and her adversary’s filing of a warrant of satisfaction) and more. Don’t miss it!
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