Andrew John Calcagno | Cranford Personal Injury Lawyer

Andrew John Calcagno is the Founding Member and Senior Trial Attorney of Calcagno & Associates Attorneys At Law, a premier Personal Injury Trial Law Firm with offices throughout New Jersey and New York. Mr. Calcagno is admitted to practice law in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.

Over the past 25 years, Mr. Calcagno has achieved numerous multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Many of the cases handled by Mr. Calcagno have been published in The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Law Journal, Staten Island Advance, The Star Ledger, The Bergen Record, New Jersey Law Journal, New Jersey Verdict Search, National Verdict Search and broadcast on Channel 4 NBC News, Channel 12 News, CN8 News and 101.5 FM Radio.

Mr. Calcagno has been named as a Super Lawyer by New Jersey Monthly Magazine for five (5) consecutive years; only five percent (5%) of the practicing lawyers in the State of New Jersey have been designated as Super Lawyers by New Jersey Monthly Magazine. Mr. Calcagno is also a Life Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, which puts Mr. Calcagno in an elite group of less than 1% of all lawyers in the United States.

The selection process used by Thomas Reuters for the Super Lawyers list is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. Membership in the Million Dollar Advocates Forum is limited to attorneys who have won million dollar verdicts or settlements. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. For further details, visit superlawyers.com and www.milliondollaradvocates.com.

Mr. Calcagno is also a Member in Good Standing of the American Trial Lawyers Association (“ATLA”) and has met the Standard of Excellence for Selection to TOP 100 TRIAL LAWYERS. ATLA is the most prestigious and well respected Personal Injury Trial Lawyer Association in the United States.

Mr. Calcagno concentrates his Law Practice on Personal Injury and Workers’ Compensation. Over the past 25 years, Mr. Calcagno has achieved numerous million dollar verdicts and settlements for his clients who have been seriously injured in all types of accidents, including motor vehicle accidents, truck accidents, bus accidents, train accidents, construction accidents and inadequate security. Over the past two decades, Mr. Calcagno has helped his clients win millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their pain and suffering, disability, impairment and loss of enjoyment of life. Mr. Calcagno takes personal injury very personally. Mr. Calcagno put his blood, sweat and tears into every case, representing each and every client with professionalism, enthusiasm and zeal.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Senior Litigation Associate	Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch		1990-1994
Law Clerk	Honorable Louis Sangorgio, Supervising Supreme Court Justice	New York Supreme Court, County of Richmond	1988-1989

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
Hofstra University School of Law	JD	Law School	1990
St. John’s University	Bachelor of Arts	Political Science Major; History, Minor; Philosophy, Minor	1987

State / Court	Date
New Jersey	1991
New York	1991

• Life Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
  
  Member in Good Standing of the American Trial Lawyers Association (“ATLA”)
  
  

• Met the Standard of Excellence for Selection to TOP 100 TRIAL LAWYERS.
  Peer Review Rated - Martindale-Hubbell - 2016
  Super Lawyer        - SuperLawyers - 2011
  Super Lawyer        - SuperLawyers - 2010
  Super Lawyer        - SuperLawyers - 2009
  Super Lawyer        - SuperLawyers - 2008
  Super Lawyer        - SuperLawyers - 2007
  Million Dollar Advocate - Million Dollar Advocates Forum        
  Multi-Million Dollar Advocate - Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum        

• $1,000,000 – SETTLEMENT – CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENT – STATEN ISLAND FUEL PIER
  RICHMOND COUNTY SUPREME COURT, STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK A 36 year-old electrician walking along the Staten Island Fuel Pier (which was under construction) fell into an unprotected opening in the metal grating. He was knocked unconscious for 30 minutes and was pulled to safety by co-workers. He sustained a closed head injury and two herniated discs in his lower back, but did not undergo surgery.

• $4,743,086 - VERDICT - FOUR (4) WEEK TRIAL -TRAIN ACCIDENT
  Outcome: After a four-week trial, the Jury found New Jersey Transit 100% responsible for her injuries. Description: Case Summary: HUDSON COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, JERSEY Union, NEW JERSEY: A 52 year-old Head Neuro-Surgical Nurse at St. Vincent's Medical Center in New York City was a passenger aboard a New Jersey Transit Train on the Morris/Essex line heading towards Hoboken when a pantograph hanging over the side of a disabled train on the adjacent track smashed through the window of plaintiff's train, and struck her in the face and head. As a result, the plaintiff suffered multiple injuries, including a fractured skull, a large epidural hematoma requiring an emergency craniotomy. Plaintiff was disabled from work as a result of this horrible accident.

• $2,500,000 - RECOVERY AFTER THREE (3) WEEKS OF TRIAL - HEAD-ON COLLISION
  Outcome: $2,500,000 - RECOVERY Description: Case Summary: NEW YORK SUPREME COURT, NEW YORK, NEW YORK: A 23 year-old waitress was a passenger in an automobile when the host drunk driver rear-ended a disabled tractor-trailer on the lower level of the George Washington Bridge. The plaintiff suffered multiple injuries, including a right temporal skull fracture, requiring a temporal craniotomy; post-traumatic seizure disorder; and post-traumatic stress disorder. Plaintiff was disabled from work.

• $500,000 – SETTLEMENT – MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT – HEAD-ON COLLISION
  MORRIS COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY A 52 year-old warehouse worker was traveling to work from a lunch break when the defendant vehicle crossed over the double yellow line at a high rate of speed and crashed into the plaintiff head-on. The plaintiff suffered multiple injuries, including a comminuted fracture of the right heel, and a right posterior disc herniation at C5-6.

• $1,000,000 – SETTLEMENT- MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT – REAR-END HIT
  MORRIS COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT – MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY A 42 year-old driver was rear-ended, causing an aggravation of a pre-existing back condition, and resulting in back surgery. Case settled for the defendant’s $1,000,000 policy limits a week before trial.

• $1,300,000 – VERDICT – ICE HOCKEY RINK ACCIDENT
  MIDDLESEX COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY A 40 year-old man playing recreational hockey in a men’s adult hockey league at the Wall Sports Arena sustained a pylon fracture to his left ankle when the blade to his skate got caught in a gap in the kick plate of the boards as he was making a wing turn to retrieve the puck after a face off at center ice.

• $750,000 – VERDICT – FALL ON SIDEWALK ALONG SIDE CONSTRUCTION SITE
  KINGS COUNTY SUPREME COURT, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK A 66 year-old pedestrian was walking along a sidewalk in front of a large house under construction when she was caused to trip and fall over a piece of plywood covered with dirt and protruding into the pedestrian’s path of travel. The pedestrian suffered a comminuted fracture of the right dominant elbow requiring surgery.

• $650,000 – RECOVERY AFTER 9 DAYS OF TRIAL – INADEQUATE SECURITY
  FEDERAL COURT, WESTCHESTER COUNTY A 25 year-old office manager was abducted from a hotel parking lot, and subsequently raped by a former housekeeper of the hotel, who had an extensive criminal record prior to being hired by the hotel.

• $1,800,000 – SETTLEMENT – MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT – HEAD-ON COLLISION
  Case Summary: UNINSURED MOTORIST CLAIM AGAINST ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY A Pennsylvania couple was driving to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to celebrate their 24th wedding anniversary. A pickup truck traveling at a high rate of speed (approximately 70 miles per hour) in the opposite lanes of traffic crossed over the median dividing Route 501 (Interstate 95) and crashed head-on into their car. The Plaintiffs were extricated from their car with the “Jaws of Life.” The passenger suffered multiple injuries, including a fractured femur, a right wrist fracture, and a severe left wrist fracture, requiring multiple surgeries. The driver suffered multiple injuries, including a fractured femur, a fractured tibia and a fractured hip socket.

• $2,000,000 – SETTLEMENT – WRONGFUL DEATH – PRODUCTS LIABILITY
  Case Summary: ESSEX COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY A 46 year-old diesel mechanic was crushed to death while repairing a valve inside the compactor unit of a front-end loader garbage truck. The valves, which were being repaired by the mechanic, should have been located outside the compactor unit, rather than inside the unit where the crushing compactor blade was located. After the mechanic repaired the blade with the truck running, the blade began to move toward him, but he was trapped inside the compactor unit. When the owner of the garbage carting company screamed to the mechanic to get out of the truck, the driver of the truck mistakenly jumped out of the cab and failed to push the kill switch to the compactor blade which was located next to him in the cab. Unfortunately, by the time the owner jumped in the cab to push the kill switch, it was too late.

• Mr. Calcagno published Articles for the American Trial Lawyers Associates, in Inadequate Security Litigation.
  
  

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