Tulipan & Conk

Personal Injury

 

You can count on expert representation in personal injury, product liability, wrongful death, property damage and lost business or income claims due to:

  • Automobile accidents
  • Dangerous machines
  • Unsafe drugs and medicines
  • Asbestos
  • Medical negligence
  • Construction accidents
  • Accidental injuries of any kind

Our personal injury department is led by George W. Conk, who has been Certified Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Certification is your assurance of competent and skillful advocacy at trial and in achieving favorable settlements.


The skillful use of scientific, engineering and medical experts' testimony is a necessity. George Conk teaches scientific evidence and products liability law at Seton Hall Law School and is a lecturer for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. He has served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee that writes the instructions judges give to jurors on the law.

Partner George Conk has helped to change the law for victims of unsafe drugs, medical negligence, dangerous workplaces, and unsafe public facilities. He has helped win landmark cases in the United States Supreme Court and in the New Jersey Supreme Court including:

Daubert vs Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993)
Drug/Pharmaceutical Product Safety - United States Supreme Court

Chin vs. Saint Barnabas Medical Center, 160 N.J. 454 (1999)
Medical Negligence - New Jersey Supreme Court

Collins vs Union County Jail et al, 150 N.J. 407 (1997)
County liable for sexual assault by jail guard - New Jersey Supreme Court

Fiore vs. Consolidated Freightways, 140 N.J. 452 (1995)
Worker Safety - New Jersey Supreme Court

Caterinicchio v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp., 127 N.J. 428 (1992)
Asbestos - New Jersey Supreme Court

Roe vs. New Jersey Transit, 317 N.J. Super. 72 (1998)
Rail station security - New Jersey Appellate Court

D.J.L. v. Armour Pharmaceuticals, , 307 N.J. Super. 61 (Law 1997)
Hemophiliac/AIDS cases allowed - Superior Court of New Jersey
Hemophilia Association of New Jersey

Personal Injury Information Resources