Tomaino, Melissa Peace | Law Offices Rosemarie Arnold

Aggressive Representation & Personal Service – “A Courtroom Bulldog Who Won’t be Leashed”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Melissa Peace Tomaino

Phone:

(201) 461-1111

Fax:

(201) 461-1666

Melissa Peace Tomaino is an attorney at the Law Offices of Rosemarie Arnold and is admitted to practice law in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Melissa exclusively represents injured clients in a wide variety of personal injury cases, including motor vehicle accidents, slip and falls, dog bites, medical malpractice, dental malpractice and harassment/discrimination.

Melissa graduated magna cum laude from The College of Mount Saint Vincent in 2007, where she attended via Erasmus Scholarship, majoring in Communications, with a focus on journalism. After an internship at WABC-TV and a career as a newspaper reporter, Melissa attended and graduated cum laude from Pace University School of Law in 2012. During her time in law school, Melissa was honored to successfully represent asylum seekers and clients in a wide variety of immigration matters through Pace's Immigration Law Clinic. Another highlight of her pro bono work during law school was the opportunity to represent women seeking temporary restraining orders due to domestic abuse in both Westchester and Yonkers counties.

Since law school, Melissa has represented clients in all areas of personal injury, including workers' compensation, social security disability applications, motor vehicle accidents, nursing home negligence and malpractice. She also has experience in complex litigations involving construction defects, vertical transportation accidents, falls from heights, work site accidents and employment discrimination.

Melissa resides at the Jersey Shore with her husband and two dogs, both of whom always keep us on our toes. In her free time, she loves to dig into a new book and podcast or host her friends and family for an impromptu game night or dinner.

Most of all, Melissa is thrilled to be representing clients of The Law Offices of Rosemarie Arnold and strives to ensure each client feels comfortable, understood, seen and heard.