Dennis Donnelly Quoted in NJLJ Article, “$19.1M Verdict: ‘Most Accurate Settlement Demand I Ever Made.”

By Charles Toutant for the New Jersey Law Journal

A jury in Essex County, New Jersey, returned a $19.1 million verdict in a suit alleging a state trooper failed to recognize signs of a stroke in a driver.  The award was later reduced to approximately $11.4 million based on a partial apportionment of damages to a pre-existing condition.

Dennis Donnelly, Of Counsel at Sarno da Costa D’Aniello Maceri, represented the plaintiff when he was with the Donnelly Law Firm.

“Five years ago, I demanded $10 million to settle the case—that was the most accurate settlement demand I ever made. They could have saved themselves a couple million bucks and a trial and all this time, but they never really responded appropriately. We had mediation. They offered a million dollars, which was an insult, and which, we told them, was an insult, and they never changed during this entire trial, although I think the trial was going very well, and they had the opportunity to, but they didn’t,” Donnelly said.

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