Ana Rita Ferreira
About Ana Rita Ferreira
Ana Rita Ferreira is the Managing Attorney of Meirowitz & Wasserberg's Hackensack, New Jersey office, where she focuses on personal injury litigation. Her practice covers motor vehicle accidents, slip and fall and trip and fall accidents, dog bite injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and medical malpractice.
She handles cases through every stage of litigation, from initial client intake and pre-suit investigation through pleadings, written discovery, motion practice, depositions, arbitrations, settlement negotiations, trials, and appeals. Earlier in her career, Ana Rita served as co-counsel in serious criminal trials in New Jersey, including a first-degree attempted murder/kidnapping trial in Essex County and a murder trial in Hudson County, and secured a not-guilty verdict after a two-week criminal jury trial in Hudson County Superior Court.
Ana Rita is admitted to practice in New Jersey (2011) and New York (2012). She earned her J.D. from Rutgers School of Law in Camden in 2011 and holds dual bachelor's degrees in English and History from Rutgers University, awarded in 2007. She is fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, and has drafted amicus curiae briefs on behalf of the New Jersey Association for Justice.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP
These results are credited to Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Richland County jury unanimously awarded $32 million, including $10 million in punitive damages against Kraft Heinz, after finding that secondhand asbestos fibers carried home on work clothes caused Kathy Weist's fatal mesothelioma diagnosis.
A Boston jury found on Sept. 13, 2024 that Cimbar Performance Minerals misrepresented the safety of its Elite Talc 2000 and that its negligence helped cause a Utah man's mesothelioma, which was diagnosed seven years after he received talc during a 2014 pleurodesis. It is the first known verdict on that theory. The jury awarded about $39.1 million, and the trial judge later cut the future pain and suffering item from $21.5 million to $6 million. About $23.6 million stood.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
