September 8th, 2018 – The Ginarte Law Firm Family Picnic was held at Surf City in Jersey City, NJ. This annual event is a great time for the attorneys, staff and family members to enjoy good food and great company. Face painting and balloon making are provided for the children to truly enjoy this wonderful family oriented event.
Count to five. Take just a moment, right? For five seconds is, on average, the time you take your eyes off the wheel when you text and that can end up costing you or someone else’s life. Reviewing your messages increases the risk of an accident by 23 times, since, according to experts in road safety, it involves visual distractions (you stop seeing the road), manuals (you take your hands off the wheel) and cognitive ones (you stop focusing your attention in driving).
Ramón Ramírez, 30 years old, fractured spine.
César Canales, 41 years old, four fractures in the head, another under the left eye and a broken disc in the neck.
Manuel Morán, 36 years old, quadriplegic.
April 2016. Miguel Garrido was working on the roof of a house, when he slipped and fell. According to his wife, Isabel, immediately after the accident, her husband’s employer promised to continue paying her salary and assume the hospital costs if she did not sue. “At the first moment I accepted what they offered me. I was focused on his health, he was in a coma, “he recalls.
Reprinted with permission from the June 11, 2018 edition of the NEW JERSEY LAW JOURNAL. © 2018 ALM Media Properties, LLC.
When it was formed 36 years ago, Ginarte González Winograd set out to represent litigants in underserved communities in New Jersey and elsewhere—and, of course, to achieve results. The firm hit both those marks in 2017. Aside from the Criollo matter described here, the firm won numerous verdicts, and obtained numerous settlements, on behalf of injured workers. At $1 million and $2 million, the recoveries might not always be eye-popping, but they are life-changing sums for individual clients, and the cases are typically complex, the injuries significant, and the stakes high for cli-ents and their families.
A construction worker who suffered electrical discharge at a construction site was awarded $8.6 million in his NY Southern district suit, Daniel Rivera, Plaintiff, v. HOME DEPOT U.S.A. et al on April 11th, 2018.
On February 19, 2014 at approximately 7:30 a.m., the Plaintiff was walking on the sidewalk abutting a property owned by Defendant in the City of East Orange, State of New Jersey when she slipped and fell due to extensive ice throughout the sidewalk abutting defendant’s commercial property. Plaintiff slipped and fell due to extensive ice directly in front of defendant Papa DJ’s Pizza.
No es ningún secreto que el centro de Nueva York-Nueva Jersey es una de las áreas metropolitanas más concurridas del país. Todos los días, miles de personas conducen de un estado a otro, lo que, dependiendo del tráfico, puede llevarles a pasar mucho tiempo al volante. La posibilidad de sufrir un accidente automovilístico siempre está presente, por lo que conocer a priori las leyes que se aplican en ambos estados y cómo varían puede ser muy útil:
Las 9 fases clave de un caso de lesiones personales.
Sufrir una lesión personal es como una ruleta rusa, nunca se sabe si te tocará o cuándo. Cualquier persona puede caerse, resbalar o sufrir un accidente, pero si el evento ocurre debido a la acción o inacción de un tercero, existe la posibilidad de exigir una compensación monetaria por el daño ocurrido.
José Criollo and his family can breathe easier today. Four years ago his accident was so tragic that he was paralyzed from the waist down and in a wheelchair. On January 22, the Ginarte Law Firm managed to seal an agreement for more than eight million dollars in its case against the construction contractor, Clark Developers.
