Margaret Johnson-Pertet, Esq.
Associate
New York Office
233 Broadway, Suite 2120
New York, New York 10279
Margaret Johnson-Pertet, Esq., is an associate in the New York Hub of Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A., having more than three decades of courtroom experience and handling medical malpractice, catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, and premises liability litigation. A seasoned litigator, Ms. Johnson-Pertet has secured more than seven multi-million-dollar verdicts on behalf of her clients, including a $20 million award in a prenatal and obstetrical malpractice case and a $7 million verdict - the highest in New York State at the time for a broken leg injury.
As a trial attorney, Ms. Johnson-Pertet built her career litigating complex cases with leading trial firms in New York City and Yonkers. In her prior role, she touched all phases of medical malpractice and personal injury litigation, representing plaintiffs in claims involving obstetrical and neonatal care, childhood lead poisoning, motor vehicle accidents, and complex negligence matters. Earlier in her career, she served as trial counsel, where she refined her expertise in jury selection, motion practice, and trial advocacy.
Ms. Johnson-Pertet also has experience in public service, having litigated for the New York City Law Department, Office of Corporation Counsel, Tort Division, as well as the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. She began her career with the Legal Services Corporation, representing clients across Harlem, the Bronx, and Brooklyn in civil litigation matters.
In addition to her litigation practice, Ms. Johnson-Pertet has lectured extensively for the New York State Trial Lawyers Association on topics including lead poisoning litigation, wrongful death, and premises liability. She is also a published author, contributing to the Birth Trauma Litigation Journal on neonatal encephalopathy and obstetrical malpractice issues.
Ms. Johnson-Pertet earned her Juris Doctor from Hofstra University School of Law in 1982 and her Bachelor of Arts from Ithaca College in 1979.
Licensed to practice in New York, Ms. Johnson-Pertet is admitted before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Representative Trial Cases:
- Jose A. Nunez by m/n/g Martha Nunez vs. New York City Health & Hospital Corp. (Elmhurst Hospital Center).
- ($20 Million) Pre-Natal & Obstetrical Medical Malpractice Case.
- Collette Carl v. City of New York
- ($7 Million) Personal Injury case for a broken leg.
- Victor Figueroa vs. City of New York
- ($6.5 Million) Pedestrian knock-down case by NYC HPD van, causing multiple fractures
- Lennard & Tia Burnett vs. Oswald Jeffers & Interfaith Medical Center.
- ($5 Million) Lead Poisoning Pediatric Medical Malpractice & Premises Liability Case.
- Yesis Salcedo vs. New York Health & Hospital Center (Harlem Hospital).
- ($3 Million) Obstetrical Brain Damage Baby Medical Malpractice Case
- Nasaih Patterson vs. Montefiore Medical Center.
- ($1.4 Million) Tried Obstetrical/Birth Trauma/Brain Damage/Autism Case to Verdict. Jury Awarded a Recovery for Infant's Facial Palsy due to Injury to the Seventh Cranial Nerve during Birth and Parental Loss of Services Claim.
