RICHARD J. WEINER is our senior partner and has extensive litigation experience in the prosecution of complex and catastrophic injury cases. He has successfully tried hundreds of cases in his almost forty-five (45) year legal career. Mr. Weiner has specialized in the prosecution of catastrophic injury cases; head injury cases; all types of malpractice cases; toxic torts and dram shop litigation. He has been certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney and he is a diplomat of the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Mr. Weiner is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College and the Dickinson School of Law. He has lectured both nationally and internationally on the prosecution of tort cases.

In addition to his legal expertise, Richard J. Weiner manages the Northern New Jersey and Rockland County offices.

Here ARE JUST SOME of the many cases since 1983 that Mr. Weiner personally settled and/or obtained verdicts for:

1. Estate of Lynsi Phillips v. John Doe Corp - $6 million settlement (burn case)
2. Novak v. State of New Jersey, et al. - $21 million (jury verdict – infant personal injury)
3. Dolan v. Hapag-Lloyd – $11.2 million (jury verdict)
4. John Doe & Mary Doe v. Unnamed Airline - $5 million settlement
5. Pace v. Jakus & Klein - $10.6 million (jury verdict - medical malpractice)
6. Hillman v. Valley Hospital - $4.75 million (infant medical malpractice - settled after
two weeks of trial before Judge and Jury)
7. Luna v. Baskerville, et al - $10.8 million (jury verdict - medical malpractice)
8. Lyons v. Huntington Hospital, et al - $7.065 million (jury verdict - medical malpractice)
9. Bastek v. Maersk, Bay Container and Inter-Coast - $23.5 million (jury verdict -motor
vehicle)
10. Bastek v. John Doe Defendants - $15 million settlement (motor vehicle)
11. A.P.G. v. John Doe Banking Corp. - $8 million
12. Horne v. Middletown Medical, et al - $2 million (medical malpractice)
13. Mehlman v. Diamond Sparklers - $1 million (settled during jury deliberations -
product liability - burn)
14. Edmunds v. DZE, Inc., et al - $970,000 default judgment plus pre and post judgment
interest of approximately $500,000 (negligence - burn)
15. Lopez v. Damato - $3 million verdict plus pre-judgment interest of approximately
$750,000, settlement with co-defendant prior to trial $500,000
16. Lyons v. John Doe, Esq. - $1.15 million (legal malpractice)
17. Estate of John Doe v. Airline - $4.25 million (airplane disaster)
18. Sudol v. Euro Designs - $1.85 million (construction accident)
19. Marcano v. PSE&G, et al - $3.6 million (burn case)
20. Collins v. Proctor & Gamble - $3.625 million (jury verdict - product liability
- burn case)
21. Bondarenko v. Thalbo Corp., et al - $1.8 million (slip and fall - jury verdict on liability
- settled in damage phase)
22. Sitrin v. Moog - $1.1 million (medical malpractice)
23. John Doe v. Hospital - $2.95 million (infant medical malpractice)
24. Filippone v. State - $7.5 million (catastrophic burns)
25. Strange v. Proctor Silex - $9 million (infant burn case - product liability)
26. Van Hyning v. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - $1 million
(jury verdict - genital injury at hospital)
27. McLaughlin v. General Electric - $1.35 million (settled before suit - product liability)
28. Crowley v. Montefiore Hospital, et al - $1.4 million (hospital and
medical malpractice);
29. Fishman v. North White Plains Shopping Center, et al - $1.25 million (fall
from scaffolding)
30. DeMartino/Cronk v. Lodi - $1.5 million (explosion at chemical factory resulting
in catastrophic burns/orthopedic injuries)
31. Styskal v. Orzechowski - $1.8 million (motor vehicle - wrongful death)
32. Gengaro v. PBM - $2.8 million (catastrophic burns resulting in death after 30 days)
33. Markovic v. Montefiore Hospital - $11 million structured settlement (settled before
suit - as a result of the hospital's failure to obtain a key to the room in which plaintif
was trapped resulted in plaintiff suffering a heart attack and brain damage)
34. Duff v. Slattery - $3,000,000 (product liability - defective stove)
35. Ebersol v. Ritter Transport - $3.8 million (motor vehicle - burn injuries)
36. Nieves v. Bay State Milling - $1.5 million (product liability - burn injuries)
37. Overmars v. Fantasy Island - $3.5 million (serving alcohol to minors - motor vehicle)
38. Taylor v. General Electric - $13 million (product liability - burn injuries)
39. Perski v. Ritter Transport - $1.2 million (motor vehicle - burn injuries)
40. Roscoe v. Rheem Mfg. Company - $1.1 million (product liability - burn injuries)
41. Arriga v. Eaton-Yale - $4.7 million (jury verdict - product liability - burn injuries)
42. Shingledecker v. Dempsey - $1.3 million (product liability - explosion - burn injuries)
43. Koenigsberg v. Scholastic Bus Co. - $3 million (wrongful death - motor vehicle)
44. Goldstein v. AT&T - $1.25 million (jury verdict - burn injuries)
45. Weiss v. Jersey Shore Medical Center - $1 million (jury verdict - medical
malpractice)
46. Zapata v. Challenger Circle F, Inc. - $30 million structure (product liability
- defective wall socket - burn injuries)
47. Sheppard v. New Jersey Transit - $1.2 million FELA (railroad accident burns
motor vehicle)
48. Fantasia v. Tucci - $2.6 million (anesthesiology malpractice)
49. Holman v. Bay State Milling - $900,000 (product liability - burn injuries)
50. Nieves & Holman v. Refraccionario de Milinos - $15 million (jury verdict
- product liability - burn injuries)
51. Praet v. Borough of Sayreville - $1 million (settled during jury deliberations
- burn injuries

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