Top 20 Personal Injury Results
Cases reported in the Law Journal's Suits & Deals column…
November 20, 2017 at 12:00 AM
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Cases reported in the Law Journal's Suits & Deals column for the year period ending Aug. 31, 2017. Included below are: Amount and type of award; case name; date of publication in Law Journal; court; attorneys involved.
$7M award – bench trial
Fiorino v. Lewis
10/3/2016
Bergen County Superior Court
(pedestrian struck by vehicle)
Plaintiff: Samuel Davis of Davis, Saperstein & Salomon.
Defense: Patricia Palmer, solo of Berkeley Heights.
$5.975M settlement
Moreno-Flores v. Fell
11/28/2016
Monmouth County Superior Court
(child struck by vehicle)
Plaintiff: Norman Hobbie of Hobbie, Corrigan & Bertucio and Robert Fuggi of the Fuggi Law Firm.
Defense: Jeffrey Bell of Golden Rothschild Spagnola Lundell Boylan & Garubo, and Brendan Judge of Connell Foley.
$5.5M settlement
Rodriguez v. Jaynes
9/5/2016
Monmouth County Superior Court
(pedestrian struck by vehicle)
Plaintiff: Patrick Metz and Ronald Dario of Dario, Albert, Metz and Eyerman.
Defense: Denise Ricci of Wade Clark Mulcahy.
$5.35M settlement
Parikh v. Frock Brothers Trucking
3/20/2017
Middlesex County Superior Court
(pedestrian struck by vehicle)
Plaintiff: Edward Capozzi and Corey Dietz of Brach Eichler.
Defense: Donald Derrico of Gordon & Rees, and Linton Turner Jr. of Mayfield, Turner, O'Mara & Donnelly.
$5.225M jury verdict
Kirk v. Spagnola
1/16/2017
Somerset County Superior Court
(pedestrian struck by vehicle)
Plaintiff: Evan Goldman of Goldman, Davis & Gutfleisch.
Defense: Edward Martin of Martin & Tune.
$5.15M jury verdict
Polt v. Kroon
3/3/2017
Somerset County Superior Court
(medical malpractice)
Plaintiff: Scott Parsons and Ali Loprete of O'Connor, Parsons, Lane & Noble.
Defense: E. Burke Giblin of Giblin, Combs & Schwartz.
$5.04M settlement
Bennett v. Seidl
4/3/2017
Middlesex County Superior Court
(drug involved fatal crash)
Plaintiff: Paul Garfield of Davis, Saperstein & Salomon.
Defense: Frank Viscomi of Viscomi & Lyons.
$4.75M settlement
Markov v. Davessar
3/27/2017
Union County Superior Court
(medical malpractice)
Plaintiff: David Mazie of Mazie, Slater, Katz & Freeman.
Defense: Kenneth Brown of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker.
$4.69M jury verdict
Horton v. Stanley
11/21/2016
Atlantic County Superior Court
(medical malpractice)
Plaintiff: Carol Forte of Blume Forte Fried Zerres & Molinari.
Defense: Dominic DeLaurentis of Stahl & DeLaurentis; Michael McGann of Widman, Cooney, Wilson, McGann & Fitterer.
$4.65M settlement
Tulli v. Feist
12/12/2016
Middlesex County Superior Court
(automobile and dram shop)
Plaintiffs: Eric Kahn of Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins; William Shipers of Shamy Shipers & Lonski; Brian Duff of Kalavruzos Mumola Hartman & Lento.
Defense: Robert Helwig of Hoagland Longo Moran Dunst & Doukas.
$4.5M settlement
Salifu v. University Hospital
8/21/2017
Essex County Superior Court
(medical malpractice)
Plaintiff: David Mazie, of Mazie, Slater, Katz & Freeman.
Defense: Robert Evers of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin.
$4.25M jury verdict
Jordan v. Lam
12/26/2016
Middlesex County Superior Court
(medical malpractice)
Plaintiff: Bruce Nagel of Nagel Rice.
Defense: David Weeks of Ruprecht, Hart, Weeks & Ricciardulli; Sam Rosenberg of Rosenberg, Jacobs & Heller.
$4.25M settlement
Charles v. Thomas
8/7/2017
Middlesex County Superior Court
(medical malpractice)
Plaintiff: William Crutchlow of Eichen, Crutchlow, Zaslow & McElroy.
Defense: Paul Schaaff of Orlovsky Moody Schaaff & Conlon.
$4.1M jury verdict
Kim v. Kim
2/10/2017
Bergen County Superior Court
(motor vehicle accident)
Plaintiff: Andrew Fraser and Megan Harp Steingall of Laddey, Clark & Ryan; Russell S. Warren Jr., solo of Englewood Cliffs.
Defense: Peter Aragona of the Law Office of Pamela Hargrove.
$4M settlement
Carhuff v. Academy Express
2/27/2017
Middlessex County Superior Court
(motor vehicle accident)
Plaintiff: Andrew Calcagno of Calcagno & Associates.
Defense: John Goworek of Cascio & Capotorto; Jack Maloof of Braff, Harris, Sukoneck & Maloof.
$3.6M settlement
Arias v. DOQ Transport
4/10/2017
Essex County Superior Court
(motor vehicle accident)
Plaintiff: Damon Vespi of the Vespi Law Firm.
Defense: Rozaly Cohen of Gallo Vittucci Klar; Keith Harris of Braff, Harris, Sukoneck & Maloof; Catherine McGlone of Callahan Fusco.
$3.6M settlement
Del Re v. NJ Turnpike Authority
4/10/2017
Monmouth County Superior Court
(motor vehicle accident)
Plaintiff: Richard Klauber of Weisberg & Klauber.
Defense: Christopher Paldino of Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi.
$3.3M settlement
Abdelmalak v. Ejimkanye
12/5/2016
Hudson County Superior Court
(negligence)
Plaintiff: Steven Haddad and Nehal Modi of Haddad Law.
Defense: Joseph Lang of the Lenox Law Firm.
$2.95M settlement
Moretta v. Brody
2/20/2017
Somerset County Superior Court
(motor vehicle accident)
Plaintiff: John Vlasac Jr. of Vlasac & Shmaruk.
Defense: Jeffrey Kadish, of Golden, Rothschild, Spagnola, Lundell, Boylan & Garubo.
$2.7M settlement
Martinez-Carassco v. Premio
5/15/2017
Passaic County Superior Court
(workplace injury)
Plaintiff: David Wikstrom of Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins.
Defense: Kenneth Gerard of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith; Steven Cahir of the Law Offices of William Staehle; William Martin of Martin, Gunn & Martin .
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