In The News

News coverage of New Jersey trial attorneys Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman.

2011

September 2011: David A. Mazie, Adam M. Slater, Eric D. Katz, David M. Freeman and Beth G. Baldinger were selected for inclusion in 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

June 2011: $4.7 million product liability settlement for burn injuries.

Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman named leading plaintiff firm by benchmark publications and Personal Injury Law Firm of the Year in New Jersey 2010 and 2011 by Corporate International Legal Awards.

Feb 2011: $6 million settlement for bus accident.

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Feb 2011: $2.1 million settlement for worksite injury.

Feb 2011: David Mazie and Adam Slater once again were selected for inclusion in 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

2010

August 2010:  $80 Million class action settlement against car manufacturers Volkswagen and Audi for leaky sunroofs and faulty drainage systems.

June 2010:  $39 Million class action settlement approved in lawsuit filed against Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield. 

June 2010:  $2.5 Million settlement for negligence against an alarm company.

April 2010:  $18.5 Million birth injury medical malpractice jury verdict for delayed C-section.

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February 2010: $3.9 million settlement for ENT Sinus Surgery Malpractice.

January 2010:  $1.4 million nursing malpractice settlement. 

2009

November 2009:  $3.85 Million settlement for medical malpractice.

October 2009:  $1 Million settlement for Lasik eye surgery malpractice.

August 2009: $2 Million jury verdict for pedestrian struck by vehicle.

July 2009:  $1.9 Million settlement in obstetrical malpractice case.

May 2009:  Landmark settlement of Ravin Sarasohn involving tortious interference claims against major New Jersey law firm.

April 2009:  $3.1 Million settlement with City of Newark for dangerous condition of roadway. 

March 2009:  $12 Million medical malpractice verdict against oral surgeon.

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2008

$3.18 million settlement for estate of woman who drowned when her car veered off Raymond Boulevard in Newark, New Jersey and plunged into the Passaic River.

$2.1 million Lasik malpractice settlement against famed physician Dr. Joseph Dello Russo.

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$1.9 million settlement of claim for wrongful death from electrocution.  (The terms of this settlement are required to be kept confidential)

David Mazie, Adam Slater, Eric Katz, David Freeman and Beth G. Baldinger are all named New Jersey Super Lawyers.

$1 million medical malpractice settlement.

$850,000 Lasik malpractice settlement against renowned physician Dr. Joseph Dello Russo.

$800,000 Lasik malpractice settlement against Lasik eye surgeon Doctor Joseph Dello Russo.

David Mazie featured in LawyersandSettlements.com.

2007

$15.75 million settlement of accounting malpractice case.

$14.7 million personal injury settlement for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.

David Mazie appears before New Jersey Supreme Court to argue appeal on behalf of insolvent insurer Integrity Insurance Company.

$4.15 million settlement for disputed brain injury.   Once again, the firm has achieved one of New Jersey's top 20 verdicts/settlements for the year.  

Firm obtains $2.4 million verdict in insurance coverage dispute.

Firm obtains $1.1 million verdict in medical malpractice case.

Adam Slater appears before New Jersey Supreme Court to argue appeal in medical malpractice case.

Firm blocks discovery of Internet communications by plaintiff. 

Firm files landmark lawsuit against DYFS for allowing  abuse of a child in DYFS custody.

David Mazie, Adam Slater, Eric Katz and David Freeman are all named New Jersey Super Lawyers.

Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirms arbitrator’s decision certifying physician class action against Oxford Health Plans

New Jersey Clinic Is Closed, a Month After a Woman Who Had an Abortion There Fell Ill.

Antiabortion groups join fight in Englewood case.

Firm wins a landmark $39 million class action settlement on behalf of the physicians of New Jersey against Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Firm wins partial summary judgement on $45 million audit malpractice lawsuit against PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Firm wins $1.1 million medical malpractice jury verdict. 

2006

November 21,2006:  David Mazie voted to The Law Dragon 500 - This recognition is only provided to 500 lawyers in the United States.

November 20, 2006:  Appellate Division Affirms $3 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict We Won Against Resident Physicians

October 6. 2006:  The Firm wins landmark insurance coverage decision. In Liss v. Federal, 2006 WL 2844468 (N.J. Super. App. Div.), We won an appeal involving whether an insurance  coverage exclusion, known as the "restitution exclusion", is accepted under New Jersey law. This is a landmark victory as this is the first case in the country to reject this exclusion.

July 31, 2006: $900,000 Ophthalmology Malpractice Settlement

June 2006: $5 million settlement for automobile negligence death case.

April, 2006: David Mazie voted Top Super Lawyer - Two years in a Row

January 17, 2006: The Firm wins the Fifth Largest Jury Award in United States

2005

December 2005: New Jersey Law Journal names David Mazie Lawyer of The Year.

October 2005: David Mazie named one of the Top Ten Lawyers in New Jersey

July 2, 2005:  $3 Million Verdict for Medical Malpractice Against Physician Residents

June 2005: $1 Million Lottery Award Upheld on Appeal

February 2005: $7.25 Million Settlement for Professional Malpractice.

January 2005: $135 Million Jury Verdict for Alcohol Liability (the case was later remanded by the appellate court, and subsequently settled prior to a new trial)

2004

August 2004: Class Certified in N.J. Doctors' Suit Over HMO's Claim-Payment Foibles