A partial list of settlements paid by New Jersey government agencies and their insurers to those who have sued them.
On September 4, 2019, the State of New Jersey agreed to pay $304,419.25 to the estate of an inmate at a Cumberland County state prison who claimed that corrections officers did not monitor him closely enough even though they knew he was a suicide risk. The lawsuit claimed that one of the officers, the day […]
On December 2, 2019, the Gloucester County Improvement Authority quietly agreed to pay $55,000 to a kitchen worker at the Authority’s Shady Lane Child Development Center who had sued the Authority for sexual harassment and for maintaining a hostile work environment. The alleged harassment included a supervisor presenting her “with a sexually-suggestive plate of food, […]
On December 19, 2019, Burlington County Assignment Judge Ronald E. Bookbinder approved a $70,000 settlement to resolve a female student’s lawsuit against the New Hanover School District (Burlington County). The girl, who enrolled in the school district as a third-grader in 2013 and is identified in the lawsuit only by her initials M.S., said that […]
On October 14, 2019, the New Lisbon Developmental Center (NLDC), a State-operated facility in Burlington County treating women and men with intellectual and developmental disabilities, agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a female Cottage Training Technician who claimed that she was sexually harassed by a male coworker despite his reputation as […]
On May 6, 2019, the Buena Regional Board of Education (Atlantic County) agreed to pay $185,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a confidential secretary who claimed that the school district’s business administrator gave a female employee in whom he had a sexual interest a $10,000 raise to be his secretary. According to the suit, […]
On August 21, 2018, the Township of Belleville (Essex County) agreed to pay $235,000 and provide lifetime health benefits to settle a lawsuit filed by the Township’s former court administrator who claimed that her co-workers created a sexually hostile workplace and that one of them “intentionally expose[d] her breast to [her] and excreted breast milk […]
On December 3, 2018, the Township of Bedminster (Somerset County) agreed to pay $450,000 to a police officer the Township Committee voted to suspend with pay on October 2, 2017. Of the $450,000, $150,000 was paid by the Township and the other $300,000 was paid by the Township’s insurance carrier. In his lawsuit, John A. […]
On September 12, 2018, the Borough of Roseland (Essex County) quietly agreed to pay $110,000 to three of six officers who sued the Borough’s police chief in 2014, to promote to lieutenant two sergeants who had sued and to pay the officers’ attorney $215,000. As part of the settlement deal, the two newly promoted lieutenants […]
On June 29, 2018, the City of Absecon (Atlantic County) agreed to pay $85,000 to the manager of a Whitehorse Pike motel who claimed that police pepper sprayed him and broke his shoulder when he told them that they weren’t doing their jobs. In his lawsuit, Rohit B. Surti, manager of the Budget Inn 4 […]
On August 8, 2018, the Perth Amboy (Middlesex County) City Council resolved to pay $125,000 to a now retired police officer who said that he was subjected to racial slurs and racial discrimination. In his lawsuit, Stephen Petrosino, who described himself as being “of African-American and Caucasian decent [sic],” claimed that other Perth Amboy police […]