Giovanni "John" Anzalone | Personal Injury Attorney

Giovanni “John” Anzalone is co-chair of the Personal Injury team and a member of the Management Committee at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A. He has handled more than 1,000 cases as a successful trial lawyer with over 20 years of experience in personal injury law throughout New Jersey. John has focused his legal career since receiving his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1996 on defending people who have suffered personal injuries as a result of car accidents, workplace injuries, dangerous products, nursing home neglect, industrial accidents, premises liability, maritime accidents, and railroad accidents (FELA).

On behalf of injured and disabled people throughout the State of New Jersey, John has reached settlements or won verdicts totaling more than $50 million. Over his legal career, Attorney Anzalone has been successful in getting his clients large settlements, and always near the full value of what they were seeking. Attorney Anzalone has won numerous lawsuits and settlements totaling more than $1 million in counties all around the State of New Jersey. As a result of his expertise and experience in FELA, products liability, and motor vehicle accident lawsuits, many reputable attorneys in New Jersey and New York continue to recommend him complex and difficult cases.

John represents employees of Amtrak, Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH), and New Jersey Transit who have suffered injuries as a result of the railroad’s failure to provide them with a safe workplace in countless FELA cases. In both state and federal district courts, he has successfully pursued these cases, winning millions of dollars for railroad workers.

When you hire attorney John Anzalone, you are actually hiring a New jersey Personal Injury Attorney whose legal background in injury cases, assures you that, no matter what type of personal injury case you have, you will receive the finest legal representation.

Awards & Recognition

Automobile and Truck Accident Claim Cases 

• $5.0 Million global recovery for two occupants of an automobile struck by a garbage truck
• $4.1 Million settlement for young woman suffering from fractures of the ankle, wrist and leg as a result of a collision with a truck
• $3.5 Million recovery for pedestrian struck by a bus who sustained brain trauma with resulting mild, short-term memory impairment
• $1.4 Million recovery for 52 year-old woman who required a two-level spine fusion for herniated discs caused when her car was struck in the rear in automobile accident
• $975,000 settlement for a woman who sustained two non-operated herniated discs to her cervical spine after her vehicle was struck by a military transport truck
• $580,000 recovery for a woman struck in the rear by a motor vehicle who sustained a concussion
• $485,000 settlement for woman who sustained knee injury requiring two surgeries from motor vehicle accident
• $300,000 settlement for bicyclist who lost tip of his finger in a motor vehicle accident

 Motorcycle Accident Claims 

• $1.5 Million settlement for motorcyclist who suffered lumbar fractures requiring surgery after being struck by a motor vehicle
• $1.3 Million settlement for motorcyclist who suffered thoracic spine fractures in a motor vehicle accident
• $1.2 Million recovery for a retired man who suffered a mild traumatic brain injury as a motorcyclist involved in a motor vehicle accident

Dram-Shop/Liquor Liability Claims involving Drunk/Impaired Drivers 

• $1.5 Million recovery for a man who required lumbar spine surgery for injuries sustained when he was involved in a motor vehicle accident with impaired driver that had left a bar
• $1.25 Million settlement for a man who sustained multiple fractures of the spine in a motor vehicle accident caused by impaired driver who was driving from a bar
• $300,000 recovery for young woman who suffered a broken leg in a motor vehicle accident caused by drunk driver who was overserved alcohol at restaurant 

Wrongful Death Cases 

• $1.2 Million settlement for family of unmarried construction worker who died from a defective barge that overturned
• $875,000 recovery from restaurant for family of unmarried man who was served alcohol while visibly impaired and died in a one car motor vehicle accident while driving home
• $850,000 settlement for wife of construction worker who died when a cement barrier fell upon him at construction site

Federal Employee Liability Act (FELA) Railroad Claims 

• $1.1 Million recovery for railroad worker who sustained cervical disc and spinal edema injury from a trip and fall accident in rail yard
• $600,000 settlement for railroad worker who aggravated a prior neck injury requiring surgery of the cervical spine when he was injured by a defective tool/product.
• $350,000 settlement for railroad worker who sustained a bimalleolar fracture of the ankle after a slip and fall accident in rail yard

Product Liability Claims 

• $1.5 Million recovery for a man injured when his arm was caught in a salt spreader machine
• $850,000 settlement for a woman injured when her hand became stuck in a nip point of an industrial machine
• $500,000 recovery for a man who sustained mild neurological injuries when exposed to toxic fumes from a degreaser product

Fall Down Cases 

• $750,000 settlement for a man who sustained a lumbar disc herniation requiring surgery as a result of a slip and fall on ice on commercial property
• $875,000 recovery for a man who tripped and fell on property causing aggravation of his preexisting thoracic herniated disc
• $500,000 settlement for a woman who suffered a fractured ankle requiring open reduction surgery following a slip and fall on ice located on commercial property

Nursing Home Claims 

• $475,000 recovery for aggravation of existing knee injury for nursing home patient that was caused to fall from shower chair
• $485,000 settlement for hospital patient that suffered a fractured hip from a fall when attempting to walk unassisted to bathroom
• $225,000 recovery for 90 year old nursing home patient who suffered a C1 and C2 vertebrae fracture from a fall when, without assistance, he attempted to walk to restroom 

Medical Malpractice Litigation 

• $450,000 recovery in medical malpractice claim against hospital for failure to monitor and properly set ventilator
• $650,0000 recovery for man who lost partial vision in his eye as a result of physician’s failure to properly diagnose eye condition

Results achieved in prior matters are not meant to be a guarantee of success as the facts and legal circumstances vary from matter to matter.