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 .