Anthony Cocca

Anthony Cocca is a co-founder and the managing partner of the Cocca & Cutinello, LLP, in Morristown, New Jersey. Certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court, Mr. Cocca has more than 28 years of experience defending complex medical malpractice lawsuits.  He also has extensive experience handling general negligence lawsuits for his institutional health care clients.

Mr. Cocca not only focuses on medical and nursing malpractice lawsuits, he also defends health care providers in licensing actions and acts as a consultant to health care facilities regarding regulatory and patient safety act issues. Throughout the course of his career, he has achieved success defending his clients against claims involving birth injuries, wrongful death, falls in health care facilities, surgical errors and hospital negligence, medication errors and other disputes.  He has also worked with health care facilities developing polices, procedures and patient safety act programs.  In addition, he has successfully handled numerous appeals involving notable cases which resulted in groundbreaking Appellate Division and Supreme Court decisions: Brugaletta v. Garcia, 234 N.J. 225 (2018); Brugaleltta v. Garcia, 448 N.J. Super. 404 (App. Div. 2017), aff’d in part, rev’d in part, 234 N.J. 225 (2018); Ptaszynski v. Atl. Health Sys., 440 N.J. Super. 24 (App. Div. 2015), cert. denied, 2016 N.J. LEXIS 988 (2016); Hurwitz v. AHS Hosp. Corp., 438 N.J. Super. 269 (App. Div. 2014), Burns v. Care One at Stanwick, 468 N.J. Super. 306 (App. Div. 2021), Yagnik v. Premium Outlet Partners, LP, 467 N.J. Super. 91 (App. Div. 2021), as well as numerous favorable unpublished decisions.

He has also published in his field and he has lectured to lawyers, Judges and healthcare professionals regarding Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Act issues, and COVID Healthcare Immunity among other topics.

A 1989 graduate of The University of Arizona in Tucson, Anthony got his Law Degree from the Western Michigan University-Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 1994. While in Lansing, he was staff writer for the Michigan Bar Journal's Opinion Notes and intern for then Governor of Michigan, John Engler's, legal counsel. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney, in the District of Columbia, and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Active in his legal community, Mr. Cocca serves as co-chair of the New Jersey Defense Association's Appellate Practice Committee. He is also a member of and Trustee the Morris County Bar association and past member of the Justice Robert L. Clifford American Inn of Court.  He also serves on the Northern New Jersey board of directors for the American Heart Association.