JoAnn Diaz | Turnersville Personal Injury & Employment Lawyer

JoAnn is a general civil practice with focus on personal injury/auto accidents, employment claims, bankruptcy, municipal/traffic court matters, divorce and family matters as well as wills and estates.

JoAnn has a significant number of years experience in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania in big and small law firms as well as insurance companies, with a significant concentration on employment litigation matters involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation and termination claims as well as claims for breach of contract and tort claims. 

• Representative Matters
  

• Municipal Trial verdict in favor of client charged with unfounded accusation of contempt and violation of Domestic Relations restraining order.
  
  
• Summary judgment granted for defendant in case against a health and fitness club regarding claims of discrimination because of sex relating to separation of facility exercise areas.
  
  
• Favorable settlement of disability and race discrimination claim against a long term employer resulting in more than one year's salary and other benefits to the employee.
  
  
• Defendant's summary judgment granted in case against school district alleging negligent hiring and retention of teacher accused of assault and racial discrimination stemming from incident with student.
  
  
• Dismissal of claims of handicap discrimination on summary judgment against employer brought by former employee who suffered emergency medical incident at work, allegedly connected with his "handicap."
  
  
• Summary judgment granted for defendant in case by former employee of restaurant, who was injured on machinery and sought liability against employer on basis of "substantial certainty" exception to workers' compensation laws. Successfully established that there was no intentional act to permit liability against employer and claims were barred by New Jersey Workers' Compensation Act.

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