About Michael Lizzi
Michael Lizzi is a partner at Maggiano, DiGirolamo & Lizzi P.C. and has been with the firm since 1996, becoming a partner in 1999. He handles complex and standard tort litigation in New York and New Jersey state and federal courts, covering medical and hospital negligence, nursing home negligence, wrongful death, motor vehicle collision, highway design negligence, property and building defects, and defective consumer products. Since joining the firm, Lizzi has accumulated verdicts and settlements exceeding $30 million, with more than $13 million obtained in a five-year span.
He led the firm in establishing its New York practice in 2008. Before joining Maggiano, DiGirolamo & Lizzi, he was a litigation associate at Novick, Edelstein, Lubell, Reisman, Wasserman & Leventhal, P.C. in New York, which he joined in 1991. He also interned for the Honorable Marie Lambert of the New York State Surrogate Court.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Maggiano DiGirolamo & Lizzi
These results are credited to Maggiano DiGirolamo & Lizzi. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
Four construction workers were killed and more than 30 injured when five floors of a parking garage under construction at the Tropicana Casino Resort in Atlantic City collapsed in October 2003, leading to what attorneys described as the largest construction-accident settlement in U.S. history at that time.
Christopher DiGirolamo secured $4.4 million for a Wayne boy who suffered a traumatic brain injury and partial paralysis when a drunk driver rear-ended his family's minivan, with $950,000 coming from the bar that served the driver under New Jersey's Dram Shop Act.
Christopher DiGirolamo secured a $1.62 million settlement for Carol Olsen, a 59-year-old Midland Park woman whose right thumb was bitten off by a fostered pit bull in Mahwah, in the case Olsen v. Eleventh Hour Rescue.
Christopher DiGirolamo secured a $900,000 settlement for the family of a 26-year-old college student who was struck and killed by a car while crossing at a marked crosswalk in New Jersey.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
