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Seminars Taught and Speaking Engagements

Many of Blume Forte’s attorneys are honored to be asked to lecture at various attorney seminars; and, speak at numerous engagements.

Carol L. Forte:

November 2014 – New Jersey Association for Justice: Co-Chair Medical Malpractice Mock Trial ~ Failure to Diagnose Brain Hemorrhage
November 2013 – New Jersey Association for Justice: Medical Malpractice Litigation

David M. Fried:

September 2015 – American Board of Trial Advocates: Masters in Trial (Opening Statements through Jury Deliberation)
Spring 2012 – NJ State Bar Convention: Construction Site Accidents
December 2010 – NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education: Construction Site Accidents

Mitchell Makowicz:

November 2015 – New Jersey Association for Justice – Technology and Jury Selection
September 2014 – New Jersey State Bar Association and New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education: Hot topics for Civil Litigators
February 2013 – New Jersey Association for Justice: How to Win Your Next Medical Malpractice Case/Day in the Life Video

John E. Molinari:

November 2014 – New Jersey Association for Justice: Evidence Issues Before and During Trial

Richard J. Villanova:

2014 – Hudson County Bar – “Speedy Justice” Expedited Trials and the Rules of the Game (seminar).

Jeffrey J. Zenna:

2010 New Jersey Association for Justice: Use of Rebuttal Testimony During Trial

$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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