Michael Lizzi
About Michael Lizzi
Michael Lizzi is a partner at Maggiano, DiGirolamo & Lizzi P.C. and has been with the firm since 1996, becoming a partner in 1999. He handles complex and standard tort litigation in New York and New Jersey state and federal courts, covering medical and hospital negligence, nursing home negligence, wrongful death, motor vehicle collision, highway design negligence, property and building defects, and defective consumer products. Since joining the firm, Lizzi has accumulated verdicts and settlements exceeding $30 million, with more than $13 million obtained in a five-year span. He led the firm in establishing its New York practice in 2008. Before joining Maggiano, DiGirolamo & Lizzi, he was a litigation associate at Novick, Edelstein, Lubell, Reisman, Wasserman & Leventhal, P.C. in New York, which he joined in 1991. He also interned for the Honorable Marie Lambert of the New York State Surrogate Court.
Notable case results
For a client who fell through a thinly covered air shaft at a public school construction site in Brooklyn
For a client injured in a Garden State Parkway auto accident
For a client struck on the Cross Bronx during a lane change, who underwent laminectomy surgery
For a client injured in a bicycle accident
For a client injured in a bicycle accident when a driver turned left and yielded the right of way
For a client who fell through an outdoor cellar door in Brooklyn with disputed brain injury
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
