Paul da Costa is speaking out after a serious medication error at a New Jersey group home. In a recent NorthJersey.com article. This case shows how dangerous it can be when care facilities don’t do their jobs properly. ...
By Ted Sherman, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, Susan K. Livio, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com and Matthew Miller, MLive.com Using side businesses to provide management, housekeeping, food and other services enabled nursing home...
In this NJ.com article, two of Paul M. da Costa’s cases are highlighted. Both cases involved the wrongful deaths of physical and intellectually disabled persons, including a 6-year-old and an 19-year-old. One case involves...
By Gene Myers for NorthJersey.com Matthew Rossi’s death was the latest tragedy to highlight the risks for special education students on New Jersey school buses. Parents are demanding answers. “I think Matthew...
Paul M. da Costa Quoted in NJLJ Article, “Surgery Gone Wrong Results in $3.65M Settlement for Roseland Woman”
Feb 18, 2025
By Colleen Murphy for New Jersey Law Journal “This is a prime example of a surgeon needlessly endangering the safety and well-being of a patient,” plaintiff’s counsel Paul da Costa of Sarno da Costa...
Paul M. da Costa Quoted in NJLJ Article, “$1M Settlement After Weight-Loss Surgery Death”
Feb 12, 2025
By Charles Toutant for New Jersey Law Journal The suit alleged that the surgeon failed to appreciate the signs and symptoms of surgical complications and allowed the internal bleeding to continue unabated until the patient...
Dennis Donnelly Quoted in NJLJ Article, “$19.1M Verdict: ‘Most Accurate Settlement Demand I Ever Made.”
Jan 31, 2025
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...
Paul M. da Costa Quoted in NJLJ Article, “Bus Company Pays $5 Million in Death of Disabled Child.”
Jan 15, 2025
By Charles Toutant for New Jersey Law Journal A school bus company has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of a child with disabilities who died after a school bus attendant allegedly failed to notice the girl was...
Paul M. da Costa Quoted in NJLJ Article, “Crop of Lawsuits Hits Nursing Home After Abrupt Closure”
Jun 03, 2024
May 29, 2024By Charles Toutant for New Jersey Law Journal The operators of a New Jersey nursing home that shut down suddenly have been hit with 11 suits on behalf of former residents ordered to leave. Residents were allegedly...
May 29, 2024 By Susan K Livio and Ted Sherman, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com There were 72 mostly frail and elderly men and women who had called Princeton Care Center their home. Among them were Florence Edwards, who had lived...
By Charles Toutant for New Jersey Law JournalMay 6, 2024 Paul M. da Costa, partner and chair of the firm’s Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury departments, discussed the $2M settlement he secured for his client The...
By Ted Sherman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.comApril 12, 2024 Paul M. da Costa, partner and chair of the firm’s Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury departments, was quoted in an article in NJ.com titled, “She...
March 14, 2024 A shortage of judges is making many Bergen residents wait extra years to get their day in court. The causes of the shortage are essentially twofold. One factor is simple attrition: Over the past several years,...
By: Kimberly Redmond New Jersey-based law firm Snyder Sarno D’Aniello Maceri & da Costa LLC will now be known as Sarno da Costa D’Aniello Maceri LLC. The rebrand, announced Feb. 12 comes as the practice celebrates...
As for the residents, some who left with little more than the clothes they were wearing have yet to recover personal possessions. Their medical records remain unsecured in the empty building, according to court filings. The...
A nurse sued by the parents of a disabled 19-year-old who they believe was allowed to drown in his own mucus while heading home from his special needs school was criminally charged Thursday for allegedly failing to...
Paul M. da Costa Quoted in NJLJ Article, “The Good Ones: Lawyers Praise These 4 Judges in Shorthanded Bergen County.”
Oct 10, 2023
Where judges are in short supply, the experience has prompted some litigators to feel a greater appreciation for the judges they have. Discussing the judge shortage in Bergen County, New Jersey, some lawyers who regularly...
In New Jersey’s Bergen County, where a quarter of all trial court judgeships is vacant, litigators have come to view the situation with frustration, stoicism and praise for the job the remaining judges are doing. Bergen...
Paul M. da Costa, Partner and chair of Sarno da Costa D’Aniello Maceri Webb LLC’s Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury department was quoted in the NJ.com article, “The ‘entire workforce’ walked out when...
Paul M. da Costa, Partner and chair of Sarno da Costa D’Aniello Maceri Webb LLC’s Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury department was quoted in the NorthJersey.com article, “‘’Multilevel leadership...
