The Crumbley Case and Parental Liability
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Areas of Law: Civil, Criminal Law
Keynote
Moderator
Presenters
- Robert A. Bianchi, Esq.
- Former Morris County Prosecutor and Certified Trial Attorney
The Bianchi Law Group, LLC, Parsippany - Robert B. Hille, Esq.
- Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis, RoselandCertified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, is a Partner in Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP in Morristown, New Jersey. He concentrates his practice in insurance and healthcare law and has litigated a number of insurance defense and coverage, healthcare, professional liability defense, fraud and abuse, and regulatory matters. He has also been involved in a number of reported decisions.
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nMr. Hille is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Past President of the Bergen County Bar Association, he is Past President of the New Jersey State Bar Association, where he has chaired the Insurance Benefit and Amicus Committees, continues to serve on those committees and is a member of the Malpractice Insurance Committee and the Health and Hospital Law Section. He has been a member of the Health and Tort Law Sections of the American Bar Association as well as the New Jersey Supreme Court Civil Practice Committee.
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nMr. Hille has lectured widely on insurance and healthcare law topics. His articles have appeared in the New Jersey Law Journal and other publications, and he is the recipient of several honors.
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nMr. Hille received his B.A. from Bucknell University and his J.D. from Seton Hall Law School. He served a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Keven M. O’Halloran.
On Feb. 6, a Michigan jury found Jennifer Crumbley guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter in a case that experts say sets an important precedent of whether and how parents can be held criminally accountable. Her husband, James Crumbley, was found guilty of the same in March. Prosecutors argued that Ethan Crumbley’s life prior to the murders was full of “red flags” – among them that his parents were aware of his mental health struggles but refused to get him help and that they gifted him a gun just days before the shooting and did not properly store it. Does this verdict open the floodgates to liability for all parents whose children commit crimes? What about civil liability? Hear from practitioners, both criminal and civil, including noted trial attorney and “Law and Crime” on-air contributor Robert Hille and respected former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney and “Law and Crime” on-air contributor Robert Bianchi as they analyze the case and the legal issues, and talk about the impact of this decision on parental liability claims in New Jersey.