About Catherine Fiorentino

Catherine J. Fiorentino is Of Counsel at Wingate, Russotti, Shapiro, Moses & Halperin, LLP, with over 16 years of experience handling catastrophic injury cases throughout New York.

Fiorentino earned her Juris Doctor from Hofstra University School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts from the Long Island University C.W. Post Campus. She is admitted to the New York State Bar, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Districts of New York.

Fiorentino has been named a Rising Star in construction litigation. She has published articles on strategic handling of catastrophic construction injury cases and lectures on complex construction litigation topics including grave injury claims and contractual indemnification. She is involved in legislative advocacy with the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Wingate, Russotti, Shapiro, Moses & Halperin, LLP

These results are credited to Wingate, Russotti, Shapiro, Moses & Halperin, LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$10.7 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2008 · #16

A Queens County jury awarded $10.7 million to Candida Diego after finding that New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens failed to timely perform a CT scan on a woman who arrived with a skull fracture, allowing a brain herniation to progress until she lapsed into a coma.

Queens County Supreme Court, New York · 2008Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$4.25 millionVerdict

A teenager vacationing in Hawaii developed steroid-induced paralysis after her lupus was treated with high-dose IV pulse therapy; Philip Russotti obtained a $4.25 million retrial verdict after the original $6.15 million award was vacated on appeal.

Circuit Court, First Circuit, Honolulu, Hawaii · 2013Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

Long Island University - C.W. Post Campus
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New York
State Bar of U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
New York State Trial Lawyers Association

Awards & recognition

Rising Star (construction litigation)

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$43.1 Million Verdict Against R.J. Reynolds for Brake Mechanic's Lung Cancer From Menthol and Asbestos
Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore
Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore
$265 million · The Amtrak 188 Derailment and the $265 Million Fund for Its Victims
Jacoby & Meyers, LLP
Jacoby & Meyers, LLP
$34 million · Jury Awards $34 Million After Prempro Hormone Therapy Causes Breast Cancer and Double Mastectomy

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