Calcagno & Associates

$1,000,000 – SETTLEMENT- MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT – REAR-END HIT Case Summary: 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 Case Summary: 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.

$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.

$2,500,000 – RECOVERY AFTER THREE (3) WEEKS OF TRIAL – HEAD-ON COLLISION 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. $2,000,000 – SETTLEMENT – WRONGFUL DEATH – PRODUCTS LIABILITY

$4,743,086 – VERDICT – FOUR (4) WEEK TRIAL -TRAIN ACCIDENT 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. After a four-week trial, the Jury found New Jersey Transit 100% responsible for her injuries.

$4,743,086 – VERDICT – FOUR (4) WEEK TRIAL -TRAIN ACCIDENT 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. After a four-week trial, the Jury found New Jersey Transit 100% responsible for her injuries. $2,500,000 – RECOVERY AFTER THREE (3) WEEKS OF TRIAL – HEAD-ON COLLISION 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

and post-traumatic stress disorder. Plaintiff was disabled from work. $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. $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. $1,300,000 – VERDICT – ICE HOCKEY RINK ACCIDENT Case Summary: 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. $1,000,000 – SETTLEMENT- MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT – REAR-END HIT Case Summary: 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.

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.

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