2024 Medical Malpractice Update
Date: Nov 2, 2024 8:55 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, and Online
Member Price: $187.00
Non-Member Price: $234.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: Civil Trial Bar
Earn up to 4.6 credits, including 0.6 in Ethics! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- Paul M. Da Costa, Esq.
- Certified By the Supreme Court of New Jersey As a Civil Trial Attorney
Sarno Da Costa D'Aniello Maceri LLC
Presenters
- Hon. Thomas M. Moore, P.J.Cv. (Ret.)
- Superior Court of NJ, O’Toole Scrivo, LLC, Cedar Grove
- Hon. Robert L. Polifroni, P.J.Cv (Ret.)
- Hardin, Kundla, McKeon & Poletto, Springfield
- Hon. Joseph P. Quinn, JSC (Ret.)
- Superior Court of NJ, Ansell Grimm & Aaron, PC, Ocean
- Patricia M. Giordano, Esq.
- Feldman Shepherd, Cherry Hill
- Michael R. Ricciardulli, Esq.
- Certified By the Supreme Court of New Jersey As a Civil Trial Attorney
Reprecht Hart Weeks & Ricciardulli, Westfield - Christina Vassiliou Harvey, Esq.
- Lomurro Munson, LLC, Freeholdis a Partner in Lomurro, Munson, Comer, Brown & Schottland, LLC (Lomurro Law) in Freehold, New Jersey. She focuses her practice in appellate matters, personal injury litigation, disability matters, attorney ethics and horseracing law, and has experience litigating personal injury case for both the plaintiff and defense sides, medical malpractice cases for plaintiffs, commercial disputes, and prosecuting and defending insurance brokers and attorneys in claims of professional negligence.
Ms. Harvey is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania at the trial and appellate levels, and before administrative agencies. A former Trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Association, she has been a member of the New Jersey Law Journal’s Young Lawyer Advisory Board and is Past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division. Having served as President of the Mercer County Women Lawyers Caucus, she is a founding board member of the Community Justice Center, a non-profit organization that assists disabled veterans in obtaining disability benefits.
Ms. Harvey has authored articles for the New Jersey Lawyer newspaper, NJ Esq., The Affiliate, The Young Lawyer and the New Jersey State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Newsletter. She has lectured for ICLE on professional responsibility as part of the Skills and Methods course and for the NJSBA and other organizations on ethics, collections and client relations. She has received three "Star of the Quarter" awards and one “Star of the Year” award for her work in the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division and was the recipient of the Service to the Bar Award in 2009 and the Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award in 2013 from the NJSBA-Young Lawyers Division.
Ms. Harvey received her B.A. from Douglass College, Rutgers University. She was a contract specialist for the United States Navy before attending Rutgers University School of Law and receiving her J.D. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Dorothea O’C. Wefing, Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division. - Jonathan H. Lomurro, Esq., LLM
- Certified By the Supreme Court of New Jersey As a Civil Trial Attorney
Lomurro, Munson, Comer, Brown & Schottland, LLC - John M. Hockin, Jr., Esq.
- Ronan, Tuzzio & Giannone, Tinton Falls
- Anthony Cocca, Esq.
- Cocca & Cutinello LLP, Morristown
- Hon. Rachelle L. Harz, JSC (Ret.)
- Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins, PC
- Francisco J. Rodriguez, Esq.
- Certified By the Supreme Court of New Jersey As a Civil Trial Attorney
Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins, PC - Hon. Raymond A. Reddin, JSC (Ret.)
- Hall Booth Smith, PC
Presented in cooperation with the NJSBA Medical Malpractice Special Committee
Now in its 28th year of providing timely information from the top lawyers in the state!
If you prepare and try medical malpractice cases, this annual, information-packed program will familiarize you with key cases that may change the way you handle your next trial. As an attendee, you’ll learn how to deal with common and uncommon complex issues that arise and gain practical advice to help you obtain the optimum result for your clients.
The 28th annual presentation of this timely program is designed for trial attorneys at every level of experience who handle medical malpractice cases or complex personal injury litigation. Hundreds of New Jersey’s medical malpractice attorneys, personal injury lawyers, insurance professionals and general practitioners have regularly relied upon this annual update to keep up with recent developments and cutting-edge issues. If you have not attended before, you’ll discover that this program is a quick and easy way to catch up – in just one morning – on all the critical developments you need to know.
PLUS, a review of every published medical malpractice case decided in the past year.
Program Agenda:
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8:55 | Welcome - Paul M. da Costa, Esq.
- 9:00 | To Mediate, Or Not To Mediate:
- Hon. Rachelle L. Harz, J.S.C. (Ret.)
- Hon. Thomas M. Moore. P.J.Cv. (Ret.)
- Hon. Robert L. Polifroni, P.J.Cv (Ret.)
- Hon. Joseph P. Quinn, J.S.C. (Ret.)
- Hon. Raymond A. Reddin (Ret.)
- 10:15 | AI and its Ethical Implications - Jonathan H. Lomurro, Esq.
- 10:45 | Break
- 10:55 | The Status of COVID Immunity Cases - Francisco J. Rodriguez, Esq.; Anthony Cocca, Esq.
- 11:25 | Affidavit of Merit: New Cases and Trends to Follow - Patricia M. Giordano, Esq.
- 12:00 | Apportionment of Liability to Non-Parties: Waiting for the Supreme Court’s
Decision - Michael R. Ricciardulli, Esq. - 12:25 | Case Update - Christina Vassiliou Harvey, Esq.; John M. Hockin, Jr., Esq.
- 1:00 | Adjourn
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