April 10, 2024
A 38 year-old Howell woman received $250,000 following a rear-end collision. As a result of a high velocity impact, the woman’s head struck the steering wheel and then snapped backward, resulting in injuries to her neck, back and left shoulder. Our client sustained a cervical disc herniation at C3-4, a lumbar disc herniation at L1-2 […]
April 10, 2024
A 56-year old Howell woman received a $250,000 settlement for injuries she sustained when she was suddenly struck by a free-standing wooden partition while attending a party at a local pizzeria. The woman sustained many injuries, including a complete tear of her right rotator cuff and a partial tear of her left rotator cuff. She […]
November 15, 2023
A Long Branch woman has received $2,950,000 for injuries she received after falling in a shopping center parking lot. The 47-year-old woman was injured when her shopping cart toppled over after striking a rain-filled pothole, causing her to fall in the parking lot. The woman had exited the supermarket and was returning to her car […]
July 26, 2023
A 59-year-old Ocean County woman received $150,000 for injuries she sustained following a car accident. Our client was traveling northbound on Martin Truex Jr. Boulevard in Stafford Township when an 83-year-old driver suddenly pulled out into traffic, striking our client’s car on the driver’s side door. Our client immediately felt pain in her left shoulder […]
June 14, 2023
A Bayville man received two settlements totaling $730,000 for injuries he incurred when the dump truck he was driving was struck in the rear by another vehicle. Our client, a 55-year-old man, was driving a work-issued dump truck in a construction zone on Route 9 in Freehold near its intersection with Schibanoff Road, when he […]
June 14, 2023
A woman who suffered neck and shoulder injuries, as well as traumatic brain injury when her vehicle was struck from behind, was awarded $750,000 in binding arbitration in her Ocean County lawsuit. Our client was yielding to traffic on the ramp from Airport Road onto Cedarbridge Avenue in Lakewood when her SUV was struck from […]
February 22, 2023
A 52-year-old woman was seriously injured in the garden center of a home improvement store when she was buried by falling bags of mulch. The large bags of mulch were stacked “Jenga” style, seven feet high on a large pallet. Customers had been taking bags from the stack during the day, rendering the stack unstable. […]
February 22, 2023
A 70-year-old woman was stopped on the ramp from Mantoloking Road to Hooper Avenue waiting for traffic to clear before she pulled out when she was suddenly struck from behind. As a result of the impact, our client was thrown backwards and then forward, causing a herniated disc at L5-S1 and an L4-L5 bulging disc. […]
February 22, 2023
A 44-year-old woman was the passenger in her husband’s car while traveling east bound in the right-hand lane of County Road 537 in Colts Neck. At the same time, another car was traveling east bound in the left lane of County Road 537. Our client’s husband suddenly attempted to make a U-turn from the right […]
February 15, 2023
An Ocean County woman agreed to settle her lawsuit following three motor vehicle collisions dating back ten years for $780,000. The lawsuit involved two separate Underinsured Motorist (UIM) claims as well as a third-party action against one of the wrongdoers. A 58-year-old woman was hit from behind twice in one year, sustaining severe neck and […]
November 16, 2022
A 56-year-old man was pushing a shopping cart across the parking lot of the BJ’s Shopping Center in Manahawkin when a car suddenly hit the shopping cart, throwing the man to the ground and causing significant injuries. The driver of the vehicle, a 79-year-old woman, was attempting to make a left turn to exit the […]
November 2, 2022
A boyfriend and girlfriend were injured in Middlesex County when the car in which they were traveling was struck by a passenger van that ran a stop sign. Eyewitnesses to the accident said that the van driver never attempted to stop. The man and woman both suffered numerous injuries. The 28-year-old woman suffered multiple herniated […]
November 2, 2022
A 25-year-old Sayreville man was walking his dog in the Borough’s Veteran War Memorial Park next to his townhome complex late one evening when he cut his left leg on a broken, jagged metal pole protruding from the grass. The man was taken to a nearby hospital emergency department where two deep lacerations were sutured. […]
November 2, 2022
A 61-year old Long Branch woman was stopped at a red light on Route 35 North in Ocean Township when she was suddenly struck from behind. After retaining Maggs McDermott & DiCicco, our investigation revealed that the defendant was trying to program her GPS just prior to the collision. Our client sustained injuries to her […]
July 27, 2022
An active 64-year-old Spring Lake woman was crossing a street to a parking lot in town when she was suddenly struck by a car backing out of an adjacent driveway. The woman suffered numerous injuries, including a severely fractured left wrist and disc herniations to her lumbar spine. The wrist injury first required a closed […]
May 18, 2022
An Edison man received a settlement of $350,000 from an area mall for the injuries he sustained when the chair in which he was seated broke. The 70-year-old man was sitting in a chair near the Food Court of an area mall enjoying a cup of coffee when his chair suddenly collapsed, sending him to […]
May 18, 2022
A wife and son received $2.2 million after a 52-year-old man died following a minimally invasive mitral valve replacement procedure. The man, who was otherwise in excellent health, came through the surgery as expected, but died three days later. Two days after surgery, a nurse practitioner removed a chest tube which had been placed in […]
May 11, 2022
Two New Jersey women received a combined settlement of $1.775 million following an accident with a school bus. The daughter was driving her car on a busy street in Eatontown, when a school bus ran a stop sign and turned right, colliding directly into her vehicle and pushing her car into oncoming traffic. The driver’s […]
January 31, 2022
A Brick Township man received $1.125 million for injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle accident. The man was operating his Honda Accord on Bridge Avenue in Point Pleasant, when his car was struck on the driver’s side by another driver who had lost control of his Honda. The man, who was 55 years old […]
October 20, 2021
A $7 million settlement was reached after a patient suffered brain injury at a New Jersey Hospital. A 55-year-old Wall Township man was taken to the Emergency Department of a New Jersey hospital after falling off a 4-foot ladder and landing on his back. He was diagnosed with an L1 compression fracture that did not […]
August 5, 2021
A Colts Neck man accepted a $400,000 settlement for claims arising from a June 1, 2015 automobile accident with the help of Maggs McDermott & DiCicco. The accident occurred when a vehicle attempted a left-hand turn onto Village Center Drive from Route 537 in Freehold Township, but instead turned directly into the lane and path […]
July 17, 2021
James A. Maggs, Esq. and Victoria J. Adornetto, Esq. of Maggs McDermott & DiCicco, LLC recently settled claims for $250,000 on behalf of a 36-year-old man who was injured after tripping and falling down a deteriorated staircase. The Firm alleged that the fall was the result of a poorly maintained and decaying staircase behind a […]
July 20, 2020
A 44 year old Howell Township woman was seriously injured when a garbage truck owned by FCI Transport, Inc., Freehold, New Jersey, struck her Ford Explorer as the truck was backing down a dirt road. The woman had to be extricated from the vehicle by first responders. Thereafter, she was taken by ambulance to CentraState […]
July 20, 2020
A 52 year old man from Keansburg, New Jersey was killed when a roof collapsed at a construction site at the Beachwood Shopping Plaza, a derelict set of 22 stores in Berkeley Township, New Jersey that were being demolished to make way for a new Town Center. The victim was an equipment mechanic but had no […]
July 20, 2020
A Point Pleasant, New Jersey man, fell 15 feet to the ground when a scaffold collapsed beneath him while he was working to install second floor windows at a construction site. He suffered a displaced left hip fracture and displaced fracture of his left heel bone. As a result, the man was required to undergo […]
June 28, 2018
A Belmar man and restaurant manager accepted $500,000 to settle a lawsuit for back injuries suffered while picking up an order at a meat warehouse. The man slipped while descending a steel staircase from the second to the first floor of the warehouse in Neptune and fell on concrete. He claimed that workers washing the […]
June 8, 2018
A Hazlet, NJ man was turning left into his driveway when he was suddenly struck by a commercial pick-up truck driven by an employee of a water delivery company. The accident exacerbated the man’s pre-existing back condition. Pain flared following the accident, which led to multiple surgeries, including spinal decompression with fusion of his back […]
September 27, 2017
A Toms River man who suffered from post inflammatory pulmonary fibrosis as a result of working around ground zero following the World Trade Center attacks was awarded $369,454 from the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. The Toms River man was employed with the NYC Transit Authority as a locksmith and carpenter. Following the 9-11 attacks […]
September 14, 2017
A 37 year old doctor from Sayreville, sustained severe and disabling injuries when her Chevy Cobalt was rear ended by a Honda Accord. At the time of the accident, the driver of the Honda was delivering pizzas for a local Domino’s franchise. The victim was taken to the Emergency Room at the Raritan Bay Medical […]
August 14, 2017
A Neptune man agreed to accept $750,000.00 to settle his claims against two separate parties, arising from a motor vehicle accident. The accident occurred when a vehicle driven by party #1, struck a vehicle being driven by party #2 in the rear on the Garden State Parkway. The Neptune man was a passenger in the […]
May 5, 2017
A Lakewood man was a passenger in a vehicle proceeding northbound on New Hampshire Avenue in Lakewood, New Jersey, when a southbound SUV unexpectedly made a left turn, crossing over northbound New Hampshire Avenue, causing a collision. The accident occurred on October 28, 2013. The victim was a passenger in a Ford Taurus operated by […]
July 7, 2015
A Jackson man suffered significant and permanent injuries in a collision with a New Jersey Transit bus. After two years of litigation, our client received $4,000,000.00 from the State of New Jersey in settlement of his claims. The day of the accident, the man was driving north on the New Jersey Turnpike near Newark Airport […]
July 6, 2015
A Jackson man was traveling on West Veterans Highway on a rainy evening when he was struck head on by a police car traveling in the opposite direction. The man was severely injured as a result of the collision, suffering the loss of vision in one eye and severing a facial nerve. The man’s wife […]
July 5, 2015
Two insurance companies agreed to pay $2.95 million to settle a Monmouth County suit by a tow truck driver who suffered fractures and internal injuries in a forklift accident. Our client was seriously injured when a forklift fell on him as it was being lifted onto the bed of a truck by an excavator. Mr. […]
July 4, 2015
A New Jersey man was operating a water truck in a construction zone on the left shoulder of the Garden State Parkway in Berkley Township when a car went through a line of cones and struck him. The victim suffered rib fractures, a lacerated spleen, lower spine fracture and other internal injuries, and, sadly, died […]
July 3, 2015
A Brick woman was driving on Chambers Bridge Road in Lakewood when she was suddenly struck from behind. Her injuries included a disc herniation, disc bulge, and torn ligaments in her neck, causing radiating pain down her left arm. The woman, an insurance claims adjuster, was unable to return to work. The injuries she suffered […]
July 2, 2015
The Firm’s international practice played a historic role in successfully resolving a 21-year, $1.2 billion dispute between the Firm’s clients, the Republic of Iraq and Iraqi Airways Company on the one hand, and Kuwait Airways Corporation and the Emirate of Kuwait. The dispute arose in August 1990 when Iraq, then under the control of former […]
July 1, 2015
A New Jersey man was helping his neighbor unload his pick-up truck when he decided to pet the neighbor’s Rottweiler. Over the years, the man had become familiar with the dog, had petted it on prior occasions, and always thought the dog was friendly. But, as he turned away, the Rottweiler suddenly attacked him. The […]
June 30, 2015
A young woman suffered serious injuries, including the loss of her spleen due to a car accident. She retained Maggs & McDermott to represent her in her claim against the other driver. On November 27, 2007, the client was awarded $1,000,000.00 for her injuries. The woman was entering an intersection on Route 35 north in […]
June 29, 2015
An electrician, was crossing the Rt. 70 bridge from Brick into Brielle when he was suddenly struck head-on by a driver who was under the influence of drugs and alcohol. At the time of accident, the Rt. 70 bridge was under construction. The victim suffered a punctured diaphragm, multiple fractures, contusions and internal injuries. He […]
June 27, 2015
A local lawyer and brother of a New Jersey woman, set up a trust for his sister. He made himself the trustee, and was responsible for paying his sister’s living expenses and distributing the balance of the trust to her children upon her death. The woman’s children retained Maggs & McDermott to pursue their inheritance […]
June 26, 2015
It’s a long way from New Jersey, but two lawyers from Maggs & McDermott spent eight years chasing down corporate pirates based in California’s Silicon Valley. Their efforts paid off when these pirates were sentenced for conspiring to steal blue prints and selling bootleg semiconductor parts. The client was MEC Technology, Inc., a Toms River […]
June 18, 2015
A Freehold man, 68, was trying to be helpful when he climbed a tall ladder to assist his Condominium Association in cutting down a dead tree limb on the property owned by the Association. The limb broke unexpectedly, hitting the ladder on which the man was standing and knocking him twenty six feet to the […]
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