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Michael Tomasino, Esq.
Worker's Compensation Attorney

Michael is a lifelong resident of Middlesex County who has devoted the entirety of his legal career to the practice of worker’s compensation and personal injury litigation. One-hundred percent of Michael’s practice focuses upon the representation of seriously injured persons…

Michael Tomasino, Esq.
Worker's Compensation Attorney

Worker's Compensation Attorney Michael Tomasino, Esq.

In the last five years alone, Mike has recovered in excess of $20,000,000 for his clients in worker’s compensation cases.

Mike is a member of the firm’s management committee and a lifelong resident of Middlesex County. One hundred percent of Mike’s practice focuses upon the representation of seriously injured persons. Mike has appeared in every worker’s compensation court in the State of New Jersey; and has substantial experience obtaining favorable settlements on behalf of those deprived by insurance companies. In the last five years alone, Mike has recovered in excess of $20,000,000 for his clients in worker’s compensation cases.

Mike approaches each case as if it were to proceed to trial. In this way he can maximize the recovery for each of his clients. Mike routinely handles claims arising from specific accidents, occupational exposure, and exposure to toxic chemicals. Mike – whose father was a card-carrying union member until the day he died — has become a go-to attorney for members of both private and public-sector unions.

In addition to worker’s compensation claims, Mike forcefully litigates a myriad of personal injury claims. In fact, Mike has substantial experience in automobile, UIM/UM, tractor trailer, ridesharing, medical malpractice, and product liability cases. To that end, Mike has tried a slew of jury trials to verdict with an overwhelming success rate for his clients.

Prior to joining Garces, Grabler & LeBrocq, Mike managed the New Jersey and New York worker’s compensation departments at a nationally renowned 2,000-attorney firm. Additionally, Mike served as an in-house trial attorney for New Jersey’s largest auto insurer.

In-text Publications

Authored: “Recent Developments in the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination;” Presented by Brian J. Chabarek, Esq. at the 48th Annual Convention of the New Jersey Defense Association, June 28, 2014, Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay of Cambridge, Maryland

Authored: “The Small Firm Shift;” New Jersey Lawyer Magazine No. 283 — Young Lawyers’ Edition, August 2013

Authored: “Police, Equity and Municipal Finance: A Comparison of St. Louis County, MO and New Jersey Traffic Enforcement;” Rutgers Center on Law in Metropolitan Equity, November 2014

Authored: “The New City Powers: Recent Innovations in the Exercise of Local Government Authority;” Rutgers Center on Law in Metropolitan Equity, August 2015

Contributed to and Edited: “Municipal Court: Practical Skills Series, 2012 Edition, A Guide to New Jersey DUI Law;” Edited by Samuel Louis Sachs, Esq.

Online Publications:

Authored: “Clouds of Concern: The Hazy State of Marijuana’s Use as Curative Treatment in New Jersey Worker’s Compensation,” December 2016

Authored: “Another Blow to the Intoxication Defense,” December 2016

Authored: “Can a New Jersey Employer Fire an Employee Collecting Worker’s Compensation Benefits?,” May 2016

Authored: “Dever, Colmyer and the Mess Made of Respondents’ Section 40 Lien Rights in Third-Party Cases,” April 2016

Authored: “Employee or Independent Contractor? Determining a Worker’s Status under New Jersey’s Shifting Body of Case Law,” April 2016

What Others Say About Michael

My attorney Michael Tomasino and Emi Alvarado are the best! They did a fantastic job in handling my case! I would also like to give a special thanks for the extra hard work Emi Alvarado put into my case! I am very pleased with the outcome! Thank u!
– Maurice Avery

First of all a big thank you for all the help to Michael Tomasino and Maria Arigon. Thanks again for guiding and answering my questions with details. Very ethical, honest and knowledgeable at what they do. I had a good experience with this attorney, outstanding. I recommend 100% this firm.
– maria de la cruz

I must commend both Michael Tomasino and Daniel Spafford as well as their assistant Emme Alvarado. Always very professional and courteous. Our family greatly appreciates all of the hard work they have endured, while having to deal with people at their breaking point. Mr. Garces is also a class act. Don’t hesitate to use this firm.
– Tarra G.

Past Settlement Results

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Amount Recovered

Michael has recovered in excess of
$20,000,000 for her clients in workers’
compensation cases.

Practice Areas

Worker’s Compensation
Personal Injury
Medical Malpractice

Education

School: Kean University
- Degree: Bachelor of Arts
- Major: English – Writing Option
- Year: 2012
- Latin Honors: Summa Cum Laude
School: Rutgers School of Law – Newark
- Degree: Juris Doctor
- Year: 2015
- Student-Attorney, Community and Transactional Clinic
- Student-Attorney, Child Advocacy Clinic
- Rutgers Law Record, Editor and Staff Writer
- Center On Law In Metropolitan Equity, Chief Research Assistant

Professional Memberships & Affiliations

New Jersey Bar Admissions
New York Bar Admissions
United States District Court Bar Admissions for the District of New Jersey
‍New Jersey State Bar Association
New York State Bar Association
American Bar Association
Justice James H. Coleman, Jr. Inn of Court
New Jersey Council on Safety & Health (NJCOSH)
New Jersey State Bar Association
New York State Bar Association
American Bar Association
Justice James H. Coleman, Jr. Inn of Court

Professional Honors & Awards

Designated a Top 40 Under 40 by The National Trial Lawyers
Designated a Super Lawyer in both Personal Injury Litigation and Worker’s Compensation

Community Activities

During law school, Mike performed nearly 700 hours of pro bono work — largely due to his serving as a clinical student-attorney for both the Rutgers Community and Transactional Lawyering Clinic and the Rutgers Child Advocacy Clinic.

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NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW.

Eligibility

Sweepstakes is offered only in the United States to legal residents of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania who are 18 years of age or older as of the date of registration. Employees, officers, directors, agents and representatives of Rutgers University Athletics(the “RU”), GGL Law (“RU” and together with GGL Law, “Sponsors”) and any of their respective agencies, owners, subsidiaries and affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, and individual retail licensees or the immediate family (spouse, mother, father, sister, brother, daughter, son, grandson or granddaughter, regardless of where they live) or members of their same households (whether related or not) of each such individuals are not eligible to participate or win a prize. By entering, you agree to these Official Rules and the decisions of GGL Law (the judging organization), which are final and binding in all respects.

Sweepstakes Period

Sweepstakes period begins August 10th, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on the day before the home opener (the “Sweepstakes Period”). There will be one (1) drawing after each Entry Period. The time clock of the Sweepstakes administrator is the official clock for this Sweepstakes.

Entry

You may enter by completing the following steps:

Following GGL on social media
Entering the sweepstakes via GGL website
Confirm that you are 18 years of age or older and agree to the Official Rules.

Proof of entry of submission does not equate to proof of receipt. Entries will not be judged. Entrants agree to be bound by the Official Rules.

LIMIT ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PER ENTRY PERIOD DURING SWEEPSTAKES PERIOD (REGARDLESS OF WHETHER MORE THAN ONE PERSON USES THE SAME E- MAIL ADDRESS). If more than one entry is received in one Entry Period (as defined in Section 4 below), only the first entry will be entered into the Sweepstakes, and all other entries will be disregarded. Each Entry Period will begin and end in accordance with Section 4 below. In the event of a dispute as to any online entry, the authorized account holder of the e-mail address used to enter will be deemed to be the entrant. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. The potential winner(s) may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder.

No responsibility is assumed for lost, late, incomplete, stolen, misdirected or illegible entry; or for any computer, telephone, cable, network, satellite, electronic or Internet hardware or software malfunctions, failures, connections, availability or garbled or jumbled transmissions, or service provider/Internet/Web site/use net accessibility or availability, traffic congestion or unauthorized human intervention. No mass entries or mechanically reproduced entries will be accepted. All entries become the exclusive property of GGL Law and will not be returned or acknowledged. Any attempts by an individual to access the Website via a bot script or other brute-force attack will result in that IP address becoming ineligible. GGL will prosecute any fraudulent activities to the fullest extent of the law. GGL reserves the right to suspend or terminate this Sweepstakes without notice if, in GGL’s sole discretion, the Sweepstakes becomes infected or otherwise corrupted or if any of the Rutgers games are canceled or postponed.

Drawings

For each Entry Period, one (1) random drawing will be held on the drawing date specified below from among all eligible entries received. Winners of the drawing will be notified by e-mail, telephone, overnight carrier or regular mail within approximately two (2) days of the drawing. If, after two (2) attempts, contact has not been made, prize will be forfeited, and an alternate winner will randomly be selected from the eligible entries received for the memory/moment that received the most votes during that Entry Period. Fulfillment agent must speak with potential winner.

Drawing	Entry Period	Weekly Drawing Date
1	August 10th, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. ET through the evening of the first home game.	Day prior to first home game

Prizes/Odds

In accordance with these Official Rules, one (1) winner will be selected at each of the Weekly Drawings as necessary . For each Drawing, one (1) winner will receive the following prizes – two (2) tickets to Rutgers vs. USC Football Game on October 25th, 2024 at the LA Memorial Coliseum. Roundtrip airfare and reasonable accommodations for two (2) nights, Limit one prize per person or e-mail address (regardless of whether more than one person uses the same e- mail address) per Entry Period. Odds of winning will be determined by the total number of eligible entries received during the Entry Period. No assignment, transfer or substitution of prize is permitted except by GGLin the event of prize unavailability. Taxes on or connected with the prize and the reporting consequences thereof are the sole and exclusive responsibility of winner.

General Conditions

Winners may be required to execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release, and where lawful, a Publicity Release within five (5) days of notification of the prize. Failure to return documents timely, or if prize notification or prize is returned as non-deliverable, may result in disqualification with an alternate winner selected. Where permitted by law, winner agrees to grant to the RU and GGL to print, publish, broadcast and use, worldwide in any media now known or hereafter developed, including but not limited to the world wide web, at any time or times, the winner’s name, portrait, picture, voice, likeness and biographical information as news or information and for advertising and promotional purposes without additional consideration; and further without such additional compensation appear for, or provide biographical information for use in, any presentation or other activity which may include filming/audio/video/electronic or other recordings and/or interviews, as may be determined from time to time by GGL and RU. Failure to make such appearances or grant such rights may result in disqualification with an alternate winner or potential winner selected; and while not obligated to do so, RU and/or GGL may, in their sole discretion, bear such reasonable costs and expenses that RU and GGL in their sole discretion, deem appropriate for winners or potential winners to appear for a presentation or other activity. Further, each winner and entrant agrees to release and hold harmless RU, GGL, and their respective affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees, representatives and agents from any and all liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind to person, including death, and property, arising in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, use or misuse of a prize, participation in any Sweepstakes related activity, or participation in this Sweepstakes. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS APPLY. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

Limitations of Liability

Neither GGL or RU is responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by Web site users, or tampering or hacking, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes and assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to the Website. Neither of GGL or RU is responsible for injury or damage to participants’ or to any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in this Sweepstakes or downloading materials from or use of the Website. If, for any reason, the Sweepstakes is not capable of running as planned by reason of infection by computer virus, worms, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes which, in the sole opinion of GGL, could corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Sweepstakes, GGL reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Internet portion of this Sweepstakes for any drawing(s) and select the winner from Internet entries received for that drawing prior to the action taken. IN NO EVENT WILL GGL or RU OR THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES, AFFILIATES AND AGENTS, BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF INTERNET SITE www.gglwins.com OR THE WEBSITE OR THE DOWNLOADING FROM AND/OR PRINTING MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM SAID SITES. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON THESE SITES IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS.

Disputes

As a condition of participating in this Sweepstakes, entrant agrees that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved between the parties, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before a court located in the state of New Jersey having competent jurisdiction, which Court shall apply the laws of the state of New Jersey without regard for doctrines of conflict of law. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances will participant be permitted to obtain awards for, and hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental or consequential damages, or any other damages, including attorneys’ fees, other than participant’s actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with entering this Sweepstakes), and participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.

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