Ahsan Amjad Jafry

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Associate

  Firm Name

  Burns White LLC
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters
  Defended numerous physicians, dentists, nurses, nursing homes, long-term care facilities, assisted living facilities
  other medical providers through all aspects of the litigation process, from the inception of the case through trial.
  Obtained a defense verdict in favor of a prosthodontist in a jury trial in Atlantic County Superior Court. Assisted as the second chair with the defense of a nursing home in a three-week jury trial in Mercer County Superior Court that resulted in a directed verdict in favor of the defense. Obtained a defense verdict in favor of the New Jersey Department of Corrections in a jury trial in Cumberl
  County Superior Court.
  Defended New Jersey Transit in a two-week jury trial in Atlantic County Superior Court that ended in a hung-jury. The case later settled for a favorable amount.
  Defended the New Jersey Department of Transportation in a two-week jury trial in Gloucester County Superior Court. This was a wrongful death case with significant exposure to the state of New Jersey that settled prior to closing arguments. Obtained summary judgment on behalf of the New Jersey Division of Youth
  Family Services in a wrongful death case filed in Cumberl
  County Superior Court. The case involved the death of a two-year-old boy in a house fire.
  Obtained summary judgment on behalf of the New Jersey State Police
  a New Jersey State Police detective in Camden County Superior Court in a claim filed by a city of Camden police officer who was injured while working undercover alongside the New Jersey State Police as part of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Assignment (HIDTA). The state police detective, who was driving an unmarked van, inadvertently struck the city of Camden Police officer, who was on foot. Summary judgment was granted based on the absolute immunity for police pursuit. Obtained summary judgment on behalf of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in Gloucester County Superior Court. The case was filed by an elderly woman who suffered a severe ankle fracture when a boating dock structure collapsed on state property. Summary judgment was granted because the dock was illegally built on unimproved state property