$460,000 settlement for bite and scar injuries to hand and wrist, 16 year old female plaintiff was visiting a county operated zoo when a prairie dog known to have bitten two other visitors in the preceding two weeks leaped and bit her wrist causing permanent scarring and loss of function. (Jeffrey E. Strauss, Essex County 2008).
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$495,000 settlement in premises liability case (Essex County, New Jersey 2014).
$497,000 settlement of products liability case (Essex County, New Jersey 2014).
$500,000 settlement in a premises liability matter. (Essex County, New Jersey 2012).
$550,000 settlement of wrongful death and survivorship case brought by widow of a man fatally injured by a falling tree limb (Morris County, New Jersey 2009).
$500,000 settlement during trial, Product Liability-Consumer Product Defect, commonly used type of sponge mop recoiled with such force that the retracting slide caught the users’ wedding band causing it to slice into the ring finger joint amputating the finger. (Jeffrey E. Strauss, Middlesex County 2009).
$625,000 settlement involving a machine products defect at a Middlesex County factory. (Middlesex County, New Jersey 2006).