About Barry Eichen
Barry R. Eichen is a Shareholder at Eichen Crutchlow Zaslow, LLP and a native of South Edison, New Jersey. He has been practicing law since his admission to the New Jersey bar in 1986 and has tried more than 100 cases to verdict over his career. His practice concentrates on personal injury, products liability, Federal Employers Liability Act claims, and medical malpractice.
He has represented clients in national mass tort litigation, including cases involving the diet drug combination Phen-Fen. Mr. Eichen previously served as a prosecutor before moving into plaintiff's practice and has served on the Board of Governors of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, New Jersey chapter. His case results include a $19.2 million verdict in 2005 in a FELA pulmonary fibrosis case
- a $10.6 million verdict in 2007 against Ford Motor Company involving a defective throttle
- a $51 million verdict in 2010 against Johnson & Johnson for Medicaid overcharging
- a $30 million settlement in a consumer fraud case against OSRAM Sylvania
- a $90 million settlement in a Facebook privacy lawsuit
- and a $3 million verdict in a case against the City of Newark involving a pothole
He earned his J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1986 and is admitted to practice in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida, as well as before the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A 69-year-old Newark woman walking with a friend past a Save Smart store was thrown to the sidewalk and suffered a subdural hematoma when a store employee chasing a fleeing shoplifting suspect ran into her. An Essex County jury found the retailer, which had sent five untrained employees out the door after the suspect, fully responsible for her injuries. On January 15, 2025, the jury unanimously awarded $8 million, all of it for pain and suffering. No appeal has been reported.
On November 10, 2000, a 22-year-old New Jersey woman driving a used 1997 Ford Explorer on the Garden State Parkway found the throttle stuck as she closed on slower traffic. When she pressed the accelerator hard enough to free it, the SUV surged forward, she lost control, and it rolled over. She suffered what her surgeon called a near complete amputation of her right arm at the wrist and a total brachial plexus injury, and by the time of trial an occupational therapist described the arm as completely paralyzed apart from some elbow flexion. On April 12, 2007, a Middlesex County jury found Ford Motor Company and dealer Freehold Ford liable for a defective throttle and a failure to warn, awarded $10,626,479.89 in compensatory damages, then cut that award by $2 million because she had not worn her seatbelt, leaving $8,626,479.89, of which her 28 percent share of the fault left her about $6.2 million under New Jersey's comparative negligence statute; a second phase added $42,050 in punitive damages. The Appellate Division affirmed in full and the New Jersey Supreme Court denied certification.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
