Susan Connors
AREAS OF PRACTICE
  • Medical Malpractice
EDUCATION
  • Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey
    • Honors: Moot Court Program Director
  • Seton Hall University, B.A. Political Science (Cum Laude Distinction)
    • Honors: Political Science Honor Society, University Senate, ECAC Athletic Award
BAR ADMISSION
  • New Jersey
  • U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

Susan is designated by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney. She is a zealous litigator with areas of practice focused primarily on medical malpractice and personal injury. Susan has successfully tried and resolved numerous complex and significant medical malpractice and personal injury cases, including claims relating to delayed cancer diagnosis, emergency medicine (ER), stroke/brain hemorrhage, decubitus ulcers, ophthalmologic care, misdiagnosis of choroidal melanoma, cellulitis (infection) resulting in foot/leg amputation, surgical errors including laser ablation and nerve injury, DVT/blood clots in post-Achilles tear, surgical errors, dental malpractice and wrongful birth. She has also successfully represented clients in cases involving sub-standard nursing home/institutional care.

Many of Susan’s clients have incurred significant harm as the result of the negligence of health care practitioners, and through her professional efforts, clients have been awarded more than $50 million over the past eight years via either settlements or jury verdicts.  Some of her representative results have included a $7.2 combined settlement and trial in Essex County (separate settlements of $5.1 and $2.1 million) involving the failure to diagnose and timely treat a brain hemorrhage in a hospital emergency department, $850,000 settlement after one week of trial involving the failure to inform a patient of the signs and symptoms of pulmonary embolism, $1 million settlement for delayed treatment of foot infection requiring amputation, $1.25 million settlement in delayed diagnosis of bladder cancer, $2.65 combined settlement involving a the failure to properly treat complaints of chest pain in an emergency department that resulted in cardiac arrest and death, and a $550,000 jury award involving a diagnostic error by an orthopedic surgeon that led to development of a blood clot. See Notable Representations tab.

Other injury cases that Susan has successfully handled on behalf of clients have included in-patient institutional negligence, lack of informed consent to treatment, surgical errors, delayed diagnosis of cancer, leg amputation due to missed diagnosis of vascular occlusion, improper monitoring of anesthesia resulting in cardiac arrest,  and negligence in failing to properly interpret radiologic imaging scans resulting in the rupture of an undetected brain aneurysm.  Overall, she has successfully tried and settled a multitude of cases relating to a wide array of medical procedures and treatments involving catastrophic injuries requiring reliance upon multi-discipline specialists and expert testimony.

Susan is admitted to practice in New Jersey as well as before the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. She is a member of the Medical Malpractice Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association and has served as a lecturer on recent developments in medical malpractice at the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education’s Annual Tort Law Conference. Susan is a graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law where she was a director/writer for the Moot Court Advocacy Program. She also served as a judicial intern to Honorable Alfred J. Lechner, Jr., U.S. District Court, and was a law clerk for the Honorable Frederick C. Kentz, Jr. in the Superior Court, Chancery, Equity Division, in Union County. Susan received her undergraduate degree from Seton Hall University, earning Cum Laude distinction, and was a member of the political science honor society. She also served in the University’s Senate, while also a four-year member of the Division I volleyball and Division III fencing teams.

  • $550,000 verdict in medical malpractice case for failure to order a study for blood clots, requiring surgical repair due to delay
  • $1,333,000 verdict in dental malpractice against periodontist for excessive drilling resulting in jaw and nerve damage*
  • $1,200,000 verdict involving an unnecessary biopsy leading to injury to the saphenous nerve of the leg
  • $24,000,000 verdict against settled urologist in malpractice case involving improper treatment of infection, leading  to limb loss
  • $850,000 settlement after one week of trial involving the failure to inform patient of the signs and symptoms of pulmonary embolism, resulting in death
  • $4,250,000 verdict against two radiologists for failing to properly interpret MRI imaging, leading to missed diagnosis of parotid gland tumor, resulting in facial paralysis**
  • $5,100,000 partial settlement against emergency department staff and hospital for failing to urgently order a head CT leading to brain bleed and irreversible neurologic injury
  • $1,400,000 settlement on behalf of developmentally disabled individual in state run facility who suffered various injuries,  including aspiration pneumonia leading to death
  • $1,075,000 settlement in wrongful birth case
  • $1,250,000 settlement in delayed diagnosis of bladder cancer
  • $920,000 partial settlement in case involving delayed diagnosis of blood clots, leading to lower leg amputation
  • $1,000,000 settlement for delayed treatment of foot infection, requiring amputation
  • $275,000 settlement in bed sore case
  • $600,000 settlement in lack of informed consent case involving failure to advise on signs and symptoms of pulmonary embolism after knee injury, resulting in death
  • $975,000 settlement against neurologist who failed to order surveillance of orbital meningioma, leading to blindness
  • $1,100,000 settlement in case involving a misdiagnosis of acute angle glaucoma, leading to vision loss
  • $500,000 settlement relating to treatment of eye infection after glaucoma surgery
  • $1,150,000 settlement for delayed diagnosis of metastatic leiomyosarcoma, resulting in progression to stage IV cancer
  • $1,425,000 settlement involving patient’s death after elective prostate ablation procedure
  • $900,000 settlement for delayed diagnosis of eye cancer, resulting in blindness
  • $250,000 settlement involving  infection and delayed wound repair after Moh’s surgery

*liability and proximate cause issues reversed on appeal, damage award undisturbed; new trial pending

**award reduced after molding for pre-existing condition

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