About Jermaine Mercer

Jermaine J. Mercer is a personal injury trial attorney at Jacoby & Meyers. He earned his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and his J.D. from the UDC-David A. Clarke School of Law. He is a member of Phi Alpha Delta.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Jacoby & Meyers, LLP

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$34 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2009 · #5

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.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, PA · 2009Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$31 millionVerdict

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.

Ulster County Supreme Court, NY · 2025Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$6.45 millionVerdict

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.

Manhattan Supreme Court, NY · 2025Slip & FallRead the full story →
$5.7 millionVerdict

A Kings County jury awarded $5.7 million after an unattended Jofaz Transportation school bus rolled down Nostrand Avenue and killed a young girl in Crown Heights, with the jury finding the bus company and its driver 40 percent liable.

Kings County Supreme Court, NY · 2016Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

UDC-David A. Clarke School of Law
J.D.
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Undergraduate

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.