Hugh Turk
About Hugh Turk
Hugh M. Turk has been in charge of the firm's New Jersey office since 1994, handling all New Jersey matters from inception through trial across every area of the firm's practice. A 1973 graduate of Duke Law School, he has spent his entire career in personal injury litigation. Since 1993 he has been designated by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney, an achievement held by fewer than 2 percent of New Jersey attorneys. He has been named to Super Lawyers as a top New Jersey lawyer every year since 2005 and holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He served four terms as an elected member of his town's Borough Council.
Notable case results
For a woman who suffered severe burns and lost her husband in an apartment building explosion
For the wrongful death of a 65-year-old woman severely injured in a multi-vehicle highway accident
More than $5 million for a 2-year-old in a near-drowning case
More than $5 million in a neonatal malpractice case involving a sodium chloride overdose
More than $4.3 million for an airport worker whose brain was damaged when he walked into the rotating blades of a helicopter
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
