Jury Verdict Win!
Mar 22, 2013OUTCOME: Jury Verdict: $1.678 million (plus attorneys' fees and costs)
Ms. Mattiacci was lead trial counsel representing an employee who was retaliated against after bringing forth complaints of wrongful activity in the workplace. After a five day trial, the jury returne ... d a verdict of $1.678 million (with attorneys’ fees and costs the final judgment will be over $2.0 million). The plaintiff, Marla Pietrowski, worked as a senior case manager at The Kintock Group, a corporation that provides transition services to ex-convicts recently released from prison. The jury found she reasonably believed that a manager was engaged in drug activity and violated public policy when he brought his child to the facility where convicted child predators were assigned to report, that she objected to or disclosed the conduct and that the termination she suffered afterwards was retaliatory. The case was brought under the New Jersey Conscientious Employee Protection Act ("CEPA"). Ms. Pietrowski, who made approximately $44,000 a year, was awarded full back pay of $77,988.75, pain and suffering damages of $100,000 and punitive damages of $1.5 million.
