About Manuel Gonzalez
Manuel Gonzalez is a founding partner at Ginarte Gonzalez & Winograd, LLP, focusing on workers' compensation and construction accident cases in New Jersey. He earned his B.A. from Rutgers University and his J.D. from New York Law School. He serves on the executive committee of the Workers' Compensation Section of the New Jersey Bar Association and is a member of the Hispanic Bar Association and American Bar Association. He has lectured on total disability in workers' compensation at continuing legal education programs at Kean University, and speaks English and Spanish.
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.
