September 29, 2014 - Bruce Nagel and Andrew O'Connor were successful in obtaining a $2 million jury award on Sept. 23 in Bears v. Zawadzki. The Essex County jury awarded the widow of a Hackettstown, N.J., man $2 million as compensation for the death of her husband, who died in a
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Month: September 2014
Tobacco Personal Injury Suits Dismissed
A large amount of personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits have been thrown out of Federal court recently.
The Wilner Firm of Jacksonville, Florida filed over 4,000 smoking personal injury claims in 2008. One of their partners was victorious in a tobacco case in the mid-1990’s and this attracted a lot of...
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Medical Malpractice Claim Thrown Out Due to New Case Law Allowed to Proceed
Medical malpractice is a type of personal injury claim and, just like many other personal injury actions, there are certain technical requirements that must be fulfilled before a case can be filed. The State of New Jersey, along with many other states, requires that a document called an affidavit of...
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