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About Frances Bova
Frances Bova was born and raised in the Bronx. She began her career as a registered nurse and earned a Master's Degree in Medical/Surgical Nursing from Hunter College (1983), after which she taught as a Clinical Nursing Instructor. She then obtained her J.D. cum laude from Pace University School of Law (1993), where she served on the International Law Review.
She began her legal career in medical malpractice defense in New York and New Jersey before joining Jacoby & Meyers in 2001 as a New Jersey associate motions attorney. She became a partner after seven years and now manages all of the firm's New Jersey motions, appeals, and research. She holds membership in the New Jersey Bar Association and is a volunteer member of the St. Vincent DePaul Society.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Jacoby & Meyers, LLP
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A Philadelphia jury awarded Donna Kendall $6.3 million in compensatory damages and $28 million in punitive damages after finding that Wyeth's Prempro hormone-replacement drug caused her breast cancer and the double mastectomy that followed; the Pennsylvania Superior Court restored the full punitive award in 2012 after the trial judge had cut it to $1 million.
A Ulster County jury returned a $31 million verdict, the largest car-crash award in the county's history, for Kelly Burley, who developed cauda equina syndrome and permanent wheelchair dependence after a moving truck rear-ended her vehicle on the Mid-Hudson Bridge in 2019.
A Manhattan jury awarded $6.45 million to a 53-year-old avid salsa dancer who slipped on fish guts left on a Broadway sidewalk outside the Citarella gourmet grocery, dislocated her knee, tore three ligaments, and required at least 12 surgeries over 11 years.
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