aboutMichael C. Scinta, Esq.
Mr. Scinta’s practice is limited to personal injury cases on behalf of injured individuals, families, and groups. He has obtained multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements in all facets of personal injury including Auto Injury, Construction Injury, Injury on Property, Product Liability, and Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect. Recently, Mr. Scinta and Don Chiari led their trial team to a $100 Million Dollar verdict. This has been recognized as the largest verdict of its kind in United States history. Mr. Scinta has also been recognized for having obtained some of the largest auto injury and nursing home negligence verdicts and settlements in New York State. Several juries have awarded Mr. Scinta’s clients punitive damages. These damages are extremely difficult to obtain and relatively few trial attorneys have done so. Over the course of his career, he has taken hundreds of cases to trial on behalf of injured clients. Mr. Scinta has also commenced and is handling various class actions on behalf of injured victims.
In 2024, Mr. Scinta received the Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. The award recognizes outstanding results obtained on behalf of personal injury victims.
Based upon Mr. Scinta’s notable results in personal injury cases, he has been invited to join the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, an organization that includes many of the top trial lawyers in the United States and is limited to trial attorneys who have achieved million and multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements. In addition, Mr. Scinta has been selected as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers by the National Trial Lawyers Organization and has been selected by Super Lawyers based upon his superior qualifications, trial results, and leadership as a trial lawyer. In addition, he has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America for his achievements in personal injury law.
Mr. Scinta has been asked to lecture both locally and nationally to fellow attorneys and other organizations on many topics, including auto injury cases, construction injury cases, nursing home neglect, and trial techniques. He has also authored materials for use by other attorneys in their practices, and pleadings he has authored are being published by a national publisher for use by other attorneys across the country.
Mr. Scinta is a Past President and current board member of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association (WRA). He has been appointed to serve on the New York State Trial Lawyer’s Executive Committee and has been elected as board member of the Western New York Trial Lawyers’ Association by a vote of its members. Mr. Scinta is a founding member and has been President of the New York State Nursing Home Litigation Group.
