$3.2 Million Settlement for Medical Malpractice

$400,000 Settlement of a wrongful death accident case. Plaintiff was an elderly man on the way to his doctor appointment when he encountered a ramp at the building entranceway to the doctor’s office. The ramp was too steep and did not contain railings to steady his progress. Plaintiff then lost his balance, backpedaled and fell hitting his head on the ground causing a skull fracture that triggered a deteriorating condition culminating in his death three months later. This wrongful death accident case ensued resulting in the recovery of wrongful death damages. (Union County, 2016).

Mintz & Geftic, LLC, along with co-counsel, Jonathan Meyers of Meyers Fried-Grodin, obtained final approval from the New Jersey Superior Court in Middlesex County approving a $2.25 Million settlement of a wage and hour class action. Bryan Mintz, of New Jersey’s Mintz & Geftic Law Firm, brought the case on behalf of current and former delivery drivers of a food distribution company. The primary allegation in the class action lawsuit was that the food distributor failed to pay overtime wages. The food distributor vigorously denied that New Jersey’s Wage and Hour laws even applied to them or that they violated any laws. Mintz &…

  Mintz & Geftic of Elizabeth is pleased to announce that Bryan Mintz has been selected to the 2016 New Jersey Super Lawyers list.  This is the third year in a row that Mr. Mintz has received this recognition. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Bryan H. Mintz   Published by Thomson Reuters, New Jersey Super Lawyers announced its new listing of attorneys who have “attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.” The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a…

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  August 1, 2016 – We are very pleased to congratulate Mintz & Geftic’s partner Bryan H. Mintz. After four years of a hard fought legal battle involving complex medical issues, Bryan secured a $3.2 Million settlement in a medical malpractice case brought on behalf of our client, a 14-year-old girl from Hillside, New Jersey. An Essex County Superior Court Judge approved the settlement on June 30, 2016. When she was just 16-months-old, our client was misdiagnosed with a viral illness and sent home from the emergency room. It turned out that she had bacteremia at the time of that emergency room visit and required further…

$3 million pre-trial mediated settlement, Medical Malpractice against a major New York medical center, negligent performance of a diagnostic medical procedure that caused a stroke and partial paralysis in a 50 year old woman. (Jeffrey E. Strauss, New York County-Manhattan, NY) (2013).

January 8, 2016 –We are very pleased to congratulate Jeffrey E. Strauss, of counsel to Mintz & Geftic, LLC and Strauss Law Offices, LLC, who, through a relentless and lengthy hard fought legal battle, secured a $15 million settlement in a medical malpractice suit on behalf of an 11-year-old girl from Irvington, New Jersey. An Essex County, New Jersey Superior Court Judge approved the settlement on December 18, 2015, just 10 days before the trial was scheduled to begin.

  Preventable medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the United States, right after heart disease and cancer. Generally, doctors are very smart, dedicated to their patients, hardworking, and have a deep down commitment to helping others.  However, they are human and humans make mistakes. In the field of medicine, unlike law or other professions, a simple mistake can have life-or-death consequences. During the course of a professional career in which thousands of patients are treated every year, even the best of doctors will often make mistakes that may cause patients to suffer harm. Knowing this, doctors purchase insurance to protect…

December 14, 2015 – On the eve of trial, Mintz & Geftic of Elizabeth negotiated a settlement of a lawsuit for $531,000.

$1,475,000 settlement arising out of a motor vehicle accident. (Bergen County, 2015).

  January 17, 2017 – Mintz & Geftic has announced a $400,000 settlement of a wrongful death accident case. The Elizabeth, NJ law firm secured the settlement on behalf of their client, an elderly man who was involved in a tragic slip and fall accident in Union County.   Mintz & Geftic’s client was on the way to his doctor appointment when he encountered a ramp at the building entranceway to the doctor’s office. The ramp was too steep and it did not contain railings to help him steady his progress. As a result, the elderly man backpedaled and fell hitting his head on…

$15 million settlement in a medical malpractice suit on behalf of an 11-year-old girl from Irvington, New Jersey. The suit alleged that the hospital and girl’s cardiologist deviated from the accepted standards of care by not following up about an appointment for a corrective surgery in early 2005, which could have treated her congenital abnormality and prevented a stroke that caused brain-damage. An Essex County, New Jersey Superior Court Judge approved the settlement on December 18, 2015. (Jeffrey E. Strauss, Essex County, New Jersey 2015).    

A national report card on hospital safety came out this week that all New Jersey residents should see. As one of New Jersey’s top medical malpractice law firms (see recent verdicts and settlements here) this report definitely caught the attention of our medical malpractice lawyers here at Mintz & Geftic.

  A national report card on hospital safety came out this week that all New Jersey residents should see. As one of New Jersey’s top medical malpractice law firms (see recent verdicts and settlements here) this report definitely caught the attention of our medical malpractice lawyers here at Mintz & Geftic.

Mintz & Geftic is pleased to announce that partner Bryan Mintz has been named to the “Top 100 Lawyers in New Jersey” list by Super Lawyers. The Top 100 list will be displayed in Super Lawyers® magazine and also featured in April’s edition of NJ Monthly. Only five percent of attorneys across the state are designated as Super Lawyers, which Bryan has now achieved for the sixth straight year. An even smaller percentage of attorneys are chosen for the “Top 100” list. Super Lawyers Selection Process The annual selections are based on a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer…