Gloucester County is defined by its highways more than its towns. Route 42 and Route 55 carry commuter traffic south and east out of the Philadelphia and Camden area, I-295 runs the length of the county's western edge, and the Deptford retail corridor concentrates a great deal of shopping traffic into a small number of parking lots and access roads. High-speed highway collisions and retail premises claims are, unsurprisingly, two of the matter types we see most often out of this county.
Woodbury is the county seat, and civil matters are heard at the Gloucester County Justice Complex on Hunter Street there. Gloucester shares a vicinage with Cumberland and Salem Counties rather than standing alone, which is worth knowing because judicial assignments and scheduling practice are organized across all three. Elsewhere in the county, Glassboro's growth around Rowan University and the newer residential development in Washington Township and Monroe generate a steady stream of construction, contractor-damage and homeowners insurance disputes.
New Jersey's auto insurance system also changes how a Gloucester County crash is handled compared with a Pennsylvania one. Personal Injury Protection under your own policy is the first payer for medical treatment regardless of who caused the collision, so the medical side of a claim and the liability side proceed on separate tracks from day one. The ordinary deadline to file suit for an injury in New Jersey is two years from the date of the accident.
