About Joseph Ginarte
Joseph A. Ginarte founded his legal practice in 1982 after a working-class upbringing in Newark, where both parents worked in factories. While studying at Kean University in Union, he worked full-time as a forklift operator and graduated magna cum laude. He earned his J.D. from Rutgers School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Rutgers Law Record, and entered the law to represent injured workers, shaped by watching his father get hurt on the job and struggle to recover. The firm he built has grown steadily while many competitors have downsized.
His case results include a $9.5 million settlement in 1995 for a construction worker rendered quadriplegic after falling at a job site. He is admitted in New York, New Jersey, Washington D.C., and before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Civil Practice Committee and was a former president of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100. He speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
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.
