About Amato DeLuca
Amato DeLuca has practiced law for more than three decades, focusing his work in the areas of medical negligence, catastrophic injury, and product liability. Amato earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Bridgeport, then served in the U.S. Army for two years before earning his Juris Doctorate at Suffolk University. Aware of the importance of giving back to the community, Amato volunteered his time doing civil rights work for the ACLU after graduating from law school. In 1995, he established the law firm of DeLuca & Weizenbaum, Ltd., with Miriam Weizenbaum.
- The firm then changed its name to DeLuca & Associates, Ltd. in 2020 and currently goes by the name DeLuca, Weizenbaum, Barry & Revens, Ltd. His professional memberships include the Federal Bar Association (Vice President, 1982 to 1983, President Elect, 1983, and President, 1984 to 1985, National Delegate, 1985 to 1997, Rhode Island Chapter) and the American Bar Association
- the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Vice President, Counsel of President, 1993 to 1994
- Board of Governors, 1995 to present)
- the Rhode Island Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1986 to present
- Vice President, 1988 to 1990
- President Elect, 1990 to 1992
- President, 1992 to 1994)
- the American Inns of Court (Rhode Island Chapter President, 1994 to 1995)
- and the American Board of Trial Advocacy (Vice President, 1994 to present). He is a Fellow of the Rhode Island Bar Foundation and is certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 2005 and is a member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Amato has published and lectured extensively in his field, including authoring pieces for the ATLA-HMO Professional Liability Reporter (1995) and Essentials of Civil Litigation (ATLA 1996), and lecturing for the Rhode Island Trial Lawyers Association, the Mississippi and Louisiana Trial Lawyers Associations, the Rhode Island Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and the American Association for Justice. Amato DeLuca is admitted to practice law in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court
Proven verdicts and settlements
A federal judge in Rhode Island found that a federally funded Providence health center spent nearly seven years calling a mother of four's headaches migraines before a brain tumor was found, and on December 9, 2024 entered judgment of $11,885,494.62 under the Federal Tort Claims Act, $8,385,494.62 of it to the injured woman and $3,500,000 to her four children. The tumor turned up only after she lost consciousness in the clinic's parking lot in 2019, and she suffered strokes during the surgery to remove it. The United States appealed. On March 27, 2026 the First Circuit affirmed her pain-and-suffering awards, modified her medical expense award down by $3,600, reversed the children's loss-of-consortium damages for lack of jurisdiction, and vacated the homemaker-damages award for recalculation. As of publication $7,286,894.62 stands confirmed, with the homemaker figure still open on remand.
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