About Thomas MacInnis
Thomas MacInnis is an attorney at Ginarte Gonzalez & Winograd, LLP, admitted to practice in New Jersey and handling personal injury matters. He earned his B.A. from Dalhousie University and his J.D. from Rutgers Law School. He is a member of the New Jersey Association for Justice.
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.