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About James Swartz
James A. Swartz is the Managing and Principal Attorney at Swartz & Swartz, P.C., a role he has held since joining the firm in 1993. His practice centers on negligence, torts, products liability, medical malpractice, wrongful death, and catastrophic personal injury cases, including traumatic brain injuries. He maintains a nationwide litigation and trial practice on behalf of severely injured plaintiffs and their families, with numerous million-dollar and multi-million-dollar results. He holds an "AV" Peer-Review rating (highest level) from Martindale-Hubbell and has been named a Super Lawyer by Boston Magazine every year since 2004.
A member of the American Trial Lawyers Association since 2008, he has been selected to the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Massachusetts. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles and book chapters on child, medical, and product safety, and has testified before the Massachusetts legislature on consumer education and safety issues. He also served on the Editorial Advisory Board for Trial Preparation Tools (James Publishing, 2009).
Proven verdicts and settlements at Swartz & Swartz
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A federal jury in Boston awarded $18.4 million to Sean Stentiford, a former paramedic turned attorney, after two Lahey Clinic physicians canceled an HIV test he had consented to in 2007, allowing the virus to progress undetected to AIDS and cause permanent brain damage.
A federal jury awarded $10.2 million to the Trull family after finding Volkswagen negligent for equipping the rear bench of a 1986 Vanagon with lap-only belts, a design that contributed to one child's death and two severe brain injuries in a 1991 New Hampshire crash.
A Worcester Superior Court jury awarded Audrey Serrano $2.5 million in damages, plus roughly $1.2 million in pre-judgment interest, after finding that her physician negligently kept her on powerful HIV medications for nearly nine years despite no evidence she carried the virus.
Swartz and Swartz secured a $2.5 million settlement in 1987 for a Canadian family whose infant son suffered permanent brain damage after choking on a Fisher-Price Little People figurine in 1971.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.