Beth Baldinger is a highly respected trial lawyer with Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman, LLC specializing in representing victims suffering catastrophic injuries and substantial losses due to the fault of others. Nationally recognized in the field of crime victims’ rights for 25 years, Ms. Baldinger has championed the rights of children injured in state foster care and daycare settings; survivors of sexual assaults and domestic violence; estates of those lost to homicides; citizen’s whose civil rights were violated by police misconduct; and those injured due to inadequate security. In both state and federal courts Ms. Baldinger has pressed forward with cutting-edge claims and novel issues in individual cases, class actions, mass tort matters and multi district litigation. She has a proven track record in cases of child abuse, medical, legal and professional malpractice, products liability, health care and health insurance rights, traumatic brain injuries, sports injuries and wrongful death claims against government entities, multi-national corporations, individuals as well as non-profit entities.
Beth Baldinger has been recognized in New Jersey as a Super Lawyer and is listed in the Best Lawyers in America. Her cases have been publicized in the national and local media. She lectures nationally on crime victims’ rights and has volunteered for national and local organizations.
Verdicts:
-$10 million jury verdict for failure to provide police protection. Action brought on behalf of a young child who was severely burned by a Molotov Cocktail explosive device that was thrown into the bedroom of his family’s apartment by an unapprehended perpetrator. The jury awarded $10,000,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, which award was reduced by the trial judge to $2,400,000 and affirmed on appeal. The jury found that the police broke their promise of protection to the victim’s family to put surveillance on their home on the night of the attack in order to catch the perpetrator in light of prior similar incidents and pending threats against a family member.
-$5 million settlement after jury verdict against state of New Jersey, Division of Youth and Family Services and its caseworkers for physical and sexual abuse of a child in foster care. Sustained claim for violator of federal civil rights and state statuary rights to receive medical and psychiatric services. Permanent psychiatric injuries resulted from government’s actions
-$2.8 million settlement for wrongful death case. This was a case involving a 16 year old football player allowed to return to play before his concussion injury was healed. While on the field he was involved in a play in which his unhealed concussion caused his death due to second impact syndrome
-$1.85 million settlement for inadequate security, premises liability. This is a confidential settlement, details cannot be disclosed.
-$1.7 million legal malpractice/accounting malpractice settlement. This is a confidential settlement, details cannot be disclosed.
