Largest Reported NJ Personal Injury Settlement during the Court’s 2022-2023 term

Category: Wrongful Death

With the first day of summer right around the corner, many families are looking forward to summer vacation, and along with it, day trips to the zoo, museums, and amusement parks. While amusement parks promise their patrons a day of unbridled fun and contagious laughter, accidents, especially involving children, are…

Our wrongful death lawyers discuss how a wrongful death lawsuit works in New Jersey. Among the most challenging cases that our law firm handles involve the wrongful death of a loved one. Our attorneys realize that the surviving family members we assist are experiencing a mix of extreme anger and…

In early January 2020, Swedish furniture manufacturer Ikea agreed to pay $46 million to the Dudek family, whose 2-year-old son passed away when a dresser tipped over onto him. The payout is the largest wrongful death settlement related to a single child in United States’ history. The California toddler, Jozef…

A worker suffered fatal injuries at the construction site of the soon-to-open American Dream mega-mall in East Rutherford when he collided with a parked flatbed trailer while operating a Bobcat. New Jersey State Police said the worker, Eric Papenfuhs, was operating a Bobcat utility vehicle on a parking deck of…

Recent events in the news cause many to be increasingly concerned with police conduct by questioning whether police have acted appropriately. “To protect and serve” is being attacked as a fallacy. Many perceive police officers as bullies who instill fear into citizens causing more harm than the problems they are…

By Attorney: Samuel L. Davis Tragically, two-year-old Jaelise Rodriguez suffered fatal injuries this month when she was hit by a car allegedly driven by her mother. The toddler was in the driveway at her grandparents’ house at the time of the accident. The investigation is ongoing but family members say…

By: Attorney Samuel L. Davis, Esq. A man was killed in Queens on Thursday morning when a forklift he was repairing fell on him and crushed him to death. The man was an unidentified technician working at the Raw Equipment Corp building on College Point Boulevard in the Flushing section of…