Bruce H. Zamost, Shareholder, is a member of the Personal Injury Group in the Marlton, NJ office. He concentrates his practice in the areas of product liability law, personal injury law, professional malpractice, and complex litigation.

 

Mr. Zamost's practice is dedicated to the victims of medical malpractice, legal malpractice, product defects and personal injury caused by negligence. Mr. Zamost also specializes in helping the victims of sexual assault who seek civil recourse against their assailants and against the schools, bus companies and other institutions responsible for such sexual assaults. Early in his career, he was among the national team of attorneys litigating the tobacco cases in New Jersey.

 

Mr. Zamost's product liability experience is extensive, including having obtained jury verdicts in favor of product defect victims in both state and federal courts. Mr. Zamost is also among an exclusive group of attorneys who has obtained an excess “Rova Farms” jury verdict on behalf of car accident victims in which defendant’s insurance carrier was compelled to pay a judgment which exceeded the insurance carrier’s policy limit.

 

In September 2007, Mr. Zamost obtained a $2.55 million jury verdict for a woman who sustained a partial vision loss in an optometric malpractice case, involving a delay in treating the patient's progressively detaching retina.  The jury awarded $2.5 million to the victim of the medical malpractice for her pain and suffering, disability and impairment and enjoyment of life losses, plus $50,000 to her husband, for his loss of consortium.  This verdict for unliquidated damages for the partial vision impairment to one eye is among the largest medical malpractice verdicts of its kind nationwide.

 

Mr. Zamost served as a judicial law clerk to The Honorable George Farrell III, J.S.C., Superior Court of New Jersey - Salem County. He also served as the South Jersey liaison to the New Jersey Bar Association's Pro Bono Task Force. In a decade-long legal battle with a consumer tool manufacturer, Mr. Zamost successfully represented a carpenter injured by a defective circular saw in the important product liability case of Cavanaugh v. Skil Corporation, 331 N.J. Super. 134 (App. Div. 1999), 164 N.J. 1 (2000). In that case, the New Jersey Supreme Court and the New Jersey Appellate Division established significant precedents regarding state-of-the-art doctrine, comparative negligence and other principles of tort law, evidence law, civil procedure and constitutional law.

 

Mr. Zamost is the recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law. In 2004 and again in 2008, Mr. Zamost was voted "top product liability attorney" by SJ Magazine in that publication’s poll of local lawyers. Mr. Zamost was also named to South Jersey Magazine’s Awesome Attorneys 2008, in its readership poll of the region’s best product liability attorneys.  He is the author of numerous articles and has lectured frequently on the topics of civil jury trial advocacy, personal injury law, professional malpractice, automobile accident liability, premises liability and bad faith litigation.

 

Mr. Zamost has achieved recognition in the literary genre as well as in the field of law. Mr. Zamost's biography and quotations appear in a book which explores the archetypes of success, published in 2008 entitled: Bounce!, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.