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Settlement of $3,450,000.00:

In a motor vehicle case involving a Guttenberg woman who was a driver involved in a head-on collision with a motor vehicle negligently operated by a car dealership's employee resulting in catastrophic injuries. Read More

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Settlement of $8,125,000:

In a motor vehicle case involving a New York man who was a passenger involved in a head-on collision in Cochecton, New York, causing him to sustain fractures and head injuries. Read More

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Settlement of $5,120,000:

After successfully obtaining a jury verdict of $7,400,000 in a case involving a Hackensack cardiologist who sustained catastrophic injuries after being forcefully knocked down as a pedestrian by a motor vehicle. Read More

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Settlement of $3,000,000:

In a case involving an infant who sustained blindness after she bent down to pick up a toy and her left eye contacted a sharp protruding bar from a display rack. Read More

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Jury Verdict of $1,600,000:

In a case involving a man who sustained catastrophic injuries when a vehicle in front of him negligently ran over a tire, propelling it and knocking him off his motorcycle. Read More

Settlement of $1,500,000:

In a case involving a Teaneck woman who was injured when, as a pedestrian, she was struck by a vehicle causing her to become pinned between two vehicles. Read More

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Settlement of $1,800,000 :

in a case involving a Staten Island teenager who sustained injuries after having been shot in his eye with a BB-Gun pellet. Read More

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Settlement of $1,200,000:

In a case involving an East Rutherford woman who was injured when she was struck as a pedestrian lawfully crossing a crosswalk in Hackensack, New Jersey. Read More

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Settlement of $965,000:

In a case involving a Rochelle Park man who sustained injuries while he was working as a forklift operator when the forklift flipped over and pinned him underneath the roll cage. Read More

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Jury Verdict of $750,000:

In compensatory damages plus $10,000 in medical expenses in a case involving a Middlesex County woman who was sexually assaulted by two on-duty uniformed police officers employed by New Jersey Transit Police Read More

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Settlement of $1,300,000:

for four employees of the Township of Howell claiming discrimination and a hostile work environment against the township, the township municipal court, and Court Administrator. Read More

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Settlement of $4,000,000:

In cash and benefits for her client in a lawsuit filed against Bergen County, New Jersey for allowing their employee to force Arnold’s client to perform fellatio on him. Read More

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Confidential 7 figure settlement:

In a suit brought on a behalf of the brother of world renowned playwright Leonard Melfi whose dead body was desiccated and buried in a mass grave. Read More

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

WOMAN GETS $4M MORE IN DAMAGES IN DAUGHTER’S DEATH

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

By KIBRET MARKOS
STAFF WRITER

A Glen Rock woman whose daughter was slain two years ago during a trip to India was awarded $4 million in punitive damages Monday.

A judge in Hackensack had already awarded $4 million in compensatory damages less than two weeks ago to Madeleine Swiderski, ruling that Pragnesh Desai was liable for the wrongful death of her daughter, Leona Swiderski, 33.

Leona Swiderski’s body was found in 2003 near a highway in India. Desai, her fiancé, was charged with the murder but quickly acquitted. He is detained in India while a higher court hears an appeal of the acquittal.

He is also fighting extradition to the United States, where federal authorities have charged him with conspiracy to commit murder.

Prosecutors in Newark say Desai killed Swiderski after taking out a $1 million insurance policy on her life. They first charged him with wire fraud but upgraded that to murder conspiracy, which carries a life sentence.

Madeleine Swiderski obtained a civil verdict against him May 13 after a brief hearing in Superior Court in Hackensack.

Desai’s lawyer, Miles Feinstein, said his client is not defending himself in the wrongful-death case because evidence presented there could be used in the criminal case.

Swiderski’s lawyer, Rosemarie Arnold, said she was satisfied with the award but added, “I feel there is a lot of work ahead of me getting that money for the family.”

Desai owns a restaurant in Manhattan and a 7-Eleven store in Cliffside Park, Arnold said.

Source: NorthJersey.com