PARTNER
PRACTICE AREAS: Complex Torts, Personal Injury/Negligence, Construction Accident Litigation.
EDUCATION:
Rutgers College (B.A., 1992)
Seton Hall University (J.D., 1995).
HIGHLIGHTS:
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$17 million jury verdict. Co-counsel to Amos Gern in a medical malpractice case on behalf of a patent attorney who was the victim of negligent eye surgery, and an additional $3.5 million for his wife.
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$1.235 settlement. Co-counsel to Amos Gern in a medical malpractice case involving a client who lost his sight as a result of negligent post-surgical treatment following open heart surgery at a local hospital.
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$1.2 million jury verdict. Co-counsel to Amos Gern in a medical malpractice case involving a failure to diagnose vascular insufficiency and negligent arterial stenting.
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$675,000.00 settlement. Co-counsel to Amos Gern in a construction accident case involving an ironworker who sustained a spinal fracture.
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$600,000.00 settlement. Co-counsel to Amos Gern on behalf of a victim of negligent retinal surgery.
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$486,000.00 settlement on behalf of a client involved in an automobile accident who required spinal surgery.
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$450,000 settlement on behalf of a passenger on an interstate bus who sustained a hip fracture when he fell while exiting the bus while it was still in motion.
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$450,000.00 settlement on behalf of a client involved in an automobile accident who required spinal surgery.
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$145,000.00 settlement on behalf of a victim of negligent cosmetic surgery.
- September 1994 through September 1995. Law Clerk, Superior Court of New Jersey, Hudson County.
BAR ADMISSIONS: New Jersey, 1996; United States District of New Jersey, 1996. Member: Essex County and New Jersey State Bar Associations; Association of Trial Lawyers of America, 1996 until present; Medical Malpractice Subcommittee, New Jersey State Bar Association, 2002 through present; Seton Hall University School of Law Inns of Court.
PUBLICATIONS/LECTURES: Bogged Down by Botta?," 11 New Jersey Lawyer 227 (2002), Amos Gern and John Ratkowitz. "Discovery in Medical Malpractice Cases: A Critical Analysis of the Self-Critical Analysis Approach," 156 New Jersey Law Journal, 169, 236 (1999), Amos Gern and John Ratkowitz. "Treating the HIV Positive Patient in New Jersey: An Analysis of the Physician's Duty of Confidentiality, Liability for Failure to Warn, and the Requirement to Provide Medical Care," presented to the University of Medicine and Dentistry/The New Jersey Medical School, November, 1999, Amos Gern and John Ratkowitz.
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