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Blume Attorneys Listed in “The Best Lawyers”

Date: August 20, 2015

(Chatham, NJ) – Several attorneys from Blume Forte Fried Zerres & Molinari were selected for inclusion in the 2016 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in multiple areas of practice:

David Fried (first listed in 2007):

Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Carol Forte (2003):

Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs

Michael Zerres (2007):

Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Cynthia Craig (2008):

Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs

Ronald Goldfaden (2007):

Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs

Additionally, two attorneys were named “2016 Lawyer of the Year” in the Newark region:

David Fried: Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs
Carol Forte: Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs

Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as such, making this accolade particularly significant.

Inclusion in “Best Lawyers” is based entirely on peer-review and more than 6.7 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

Founded in New Jersey in 1929, Blume Forte was named the 2015 Top Medical Malpractice Earner for the past five years by the New Jersey Law Journal.

$46.7M
Toxic Exposure
The plaintiff, a 48 year-old mechanic, was exposed to chemicals on a forklift while working at the premises of the defendant Troy Chemical Corporation. The defendant did not warn of the dangers of exposure to such chemicals, and did not have a policy at the time of cleaning all forklifts before they left the plant. Within a short time of the exposure, the plaintiff developed gastrointestinal and heart problems, peripheral neuropathy into the hands and feet, serious rashes, concentration and memory deficits, and weakness and fatigue.
$25M
Premises Liability
The firm represented Daniel Schleifman, 42, and his wife, Maria Gonzalez, in their lawsuit against the Parrot Cay hotel at which they were planning to stay during their Caribbean vacation in the Turks & Caicos islands. But in calm waters on a clear night in March 2000, the resort's boat taxi crashed into a rocky outcropping, throwing Schleifman into a metal ladder and breaking his back, permanently paralyzing him from the waist down. No one else was injured.
$14.5M
Chiropractic Malpractice
A patient had complained of neck pain and without ordering any tests or imaging studies, the physician concluded that there was a neck sprain and told him to see the group's chiropractor for treatment. The patient was injured during neck manipulation and became a quadriplegic. It turned out that the patient actually had a bulging cervical disc, that was caused to herniate and compress the spinal cord during the manipulation.
$10.5M
Motor Vehicle Accident
In 1992, the victims, a dentist and his wife, were driving through a small town on the New Jersey Shore on their way to dinner at a local restaurant. The streets were poorly marked and the couple inadvertently drove off an unmarked and unguarded boat launching ramp at the end of a street. Witnesses on the shore could hear the couple trying to escape from their sinking car, but the doors and windows could not be opened.

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