About James Krupka
James P. Krupka is an associate attorney at Ginarte Gonzalez & Winograd, LLP, handling civil litigation matters in New Jersey. He earned his B.S. in Administration of Justice from Rutgers University and his J.D. from Rutgers School of Law in Newark. He is a member of the William J. Brennan Inn of Court and the New Jersey State Bar Association, and three of his cases appear in published New Jersey and federal court opinions.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Ginarte Gonzalez & Winograd, LLP
These results are credited to Ginarte Gonzalez & Winograd, LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
When improperly installed scaffolding collapsed at a Bordentown, New Jersey construction site and injured four workers, John Ratkowitz of Ginarte Gonzalez and Winograd secured a $19.675 million multi-party settlement that awarded $15 million to Luis Yanza, who sustained a traumatic brain injury leaving him with permanent, severe cognitive deficits.
A federal jury in the Southern District of New York awarded $8.67 million to Daniel Rivera, a construction worker who suffered permanent loss of use of his left arm and vision loss after an unsecured metal ladder at a Yonkers job site contacted a live electrical wire in August 2015.
Jose Criollo, 46, fell from an unguarded scaffolding tower after airborne debris struck his eyes, sustaining a complete spinal cord injury at T12-T13 that left him permanently paraplegic; the case settled for $8.225 million against the general contractor and his employer combined.
After falling from a Sea Girt rooftop without a safety harness on May 4, 2017, and sustaining a complete cervical spinal cord injury that left him permanently quadriplegic, Roberto Carlos Bolanos settled his negligence claim against the general contractor for $4 million.
James Jordan, a 42-year-old longshoreman, was hurt in June 2012 when a section of deck on the MV Ever Decent gave way at the Port of Elizabeth. He herniated a disc at L5-S1 and needed a laminectomy and fusion. After eight days of trial in Hudson County, the vessel owner's insurer settled the case for $2.8 million in March 2015.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
