Bruce H Zamost

Bruce Zamost has been recognized by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney.  Bruce Zamost is of counsel to Helmer, Conley & Kasselman, P.A. (telephone #), a full practice law firm in New Jersey, with 15 offices (13 in New Jersey offices, the most of any NJ firm) and with 50 attorneys, including a New York and Colorado office.  Mr. Zamost is based in the firm's Willingboro office.  Bruce's practice is dedicated to the victims of medical malpractice, legal malpractice, architectural malpractice, product defects, trucking/motor vehicle accidents, construction accidents, premises liability, aviation accidents, wrongful death and serious personal injury caused by negligence. Mr. Zamost also concentrates his practice 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  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.  Similarly, Mr. Zamost has recovered excess insurance policy limit payments for his clients in premises liability cases, where the insurance carrier has, in bad faith, declined to settle within its policy limit.
 
In 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.  With court-imposed interest, the judgment totaled $2.7 million.  
 
Mr. Zamost served as a judicial law clerk to The Honorable George Farrell III, J.S.C., Superior Court of New Jersey - Salem County. Mr. Zamost also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Calvin T. Wilson of the Common Pleas Court in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  He also served as the South Jersey liaison to the New Jersey Bar Association's Pro Bono Task Force.  Mr. Zamost was a Volunteer Trial Lawyer with Trial Lawyers Care, Inc.,  whose purpose was to donate legal expertise to the victims and families of the events of September 11th.
 
Bruce's tenacious work has resulted in published opinions by the appellate and supreme courts in New Jersey.   For example, 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).  Mr. Zamost obtained a substantial jury verdict for his client in Burlington County, successfully arguing to uphold that verdict before both the New Jersey Appellate Court and also before New Jersey's highest Court, the state's Supreme Court.  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. 

Bruce's medical malpractice wrongful death trial, Lauckhardt v. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, 2015 N.J Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2393, resulted in a highly significant appellate court ruling in favor of malpractice victims, permitting the use of an emergency medicine physician's standard of care testimony to address nursing liability.  In that trial, the allegation involved a husband (and father of two children) who was allowed to needlessly bleed to death for 4 hours in the hallway of a level 1 trauma center, after sustaining a treatable aortic tear.  Additionally, Mr. Zamost was counsel for the victim, a nurse exposed to toxins from a degraded HVAC filter, in an important appellate decision outlining the circumstances in which an insurance carrier can be deemed liable in bad faith for failing to defend or provide coverage for the loss.  Wear v. Selective Insurance Company, 455 N.J Super. 440 (App. Div. 2018). 

Other published decisions in which Mr. Zamost was involved include the seminal charitable immunity case on behalf of the victim, in which the New Jersey Supreme Court established the parameters of that immunity.  Bieker v. Community House of Moorestown, 169 N.J. 167 (2001).
 
Mr. Zamost is the recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law.  The AMJUR award is conferred upon the law student achieving the highest class grade and rank in recognition of outstanding scholarship for the subject matter.  Mr. Zamost 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, construction site liability, premises liability and bad faith litigation.  Mr. Zamost has served as a civil trial preparation instructor for The New Jersey Institute For Continuing Legal Education (ICLE), the New Jersey State Bar Association's continuing education service.  He has also served as a guest lecturer of the American Association for Justice as well as for the American Inns of Court.

 
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.  Bruce is featured as a vintage pinball/arcade historian in the documentary film:  Welcome To Arcadia, with a target release date in 2020.

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