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

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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.

VEREA KIN SUING DRIVER CHARGED IN FATAL CRASH

Date: 2005/08/13 Saturday Page: 4 Section: A Edition: First Size: 285 words

Verea kin suing driver charged in fatal crash

By CARLY BALDWIN, JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A distraught Cliffside Park family is transforming its grief into legal action, filing a lawsuit on Thursday against the 19-year-old who is charged with drunk driving in a car crash that killed 18-year-old Rebeka Verea.

Verea, the daughter of Lourdes and Dr. Jorge L. Verea, chief medical officer of the North Hudson Community Action Corp., was killed June 20 when Alexis Torres’ Mercedes-Benz rear-ended a tractor trailer at 74th Street and West Side Avenue in North Bergen.

Rebeka, a passenger in the car, had graduated from Cliffside Park High School earlier that day. She and Torres, a longtime friend and Fair Lawn resident, were returning home from a party.

Verea died instantly and Torres spent 11 days in a coma at the Jersey City Medical Center. Upon release, Hudson County prosecutors charged Torres with death by auto, reckless driving, and drunk driving, among other charges.

Torres, represented by attorney John Bruno, has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

“They want to hold Alexis Torres accountable,” said Rosemarie Arnold, the Vereas’ Fort Lee attorney. “It’s not a question of them being angry, they are anguished over the loss of their child and they are determined to make sure that loss is not in vain.”

The Vereas have established the Rebeka Verea Foundation to advocate safe driving among young people. They have also pledged to donate a portion of any money received in the civil suit to the foundation.

“Speed kills,” Jorge L. Verea said in a statement released by Arnold. “It’s the foundation’s mission to get this message out to as many young people as we can.”

An arraignment date for Torres on the criminal charges has not been set, nor has a court date for the civil suit.