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About Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore

Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore (KDLM) is a New York plaintiff's law firm founded in 1950 that concentrates on medical malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death cases. The firm has won over 150 verdicts exceeding $1 million and has recovered more than $3 billion in total settlements and verdicts for its clients.

Proven verdicts and settlements won by Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore

Thomas Moore won a $172 million jury verdict in Bronx Supreme Court for a woman left with catastrophic brain damage after FDNY EMTs responded to her 1998 cardiac arrest without essential equipment and advised her family to wait for a second ambulance instead of transporting her immediately.

Bronx Supreme Court · 2014Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

A Suffolk County jury awarded $130 million to a girl who developed cerebral palsy after oxygen deprivation during her 2002 delivery at St. Charles Hospital, after Thomas A. Moore of Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore tried the case three times; appellate review later cut the pain and suffering award to $4.25 million, and the firm reports the case resolved for $13.6 million in cash plus lifetime Medical Indemnity Fund coverage.

Supreme Court, Suffolk County, NY · 2013Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

A Bronx jury awarded $120 million to Jacqueline Martin, a 45-year-old mother who suffered permanent brain damage after three New York City hospitals repeatedly failed to recognize and treat a severe allergic reaction to seizure medication that triggered Stevens-Johnson Syndrome.

New York Supreme Court, Bronx · 2012Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$96 millionVerdictTop 20 in Michigan · #7

In April 2023 a Wayne County jury awarded $96 million to the widow and mother of Jude and Zachary Attianese, a New Jersey father and son killed when a Challenger Motor Freight tractor-trailer rear-ended their car in an I-75 construction zone in 2018. The company had acknowledged responsibility, so the trial addressed damages. The driver was taking medications for Parkinson's disease, and the company had known of his diagnosis since 2015.

Wayne County Circuit Court, Detroit, Michigan · 2023Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$50 millionVerdictTop 10 of 2003 · #4

When a shunt revision at New York Hospital failed and went unaddressed in 1990, Samuel Desiderio suffered catastrophic brain damage; a jury awarded roughly $50 million and New York's highest court upheld the structured judgment in full.

New York Court of Appeals (100 NY2d 159) · 2003Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$40.8 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2010 · #9

A Kings County jury awarded $40,876,000 to Matthew Falcone Jr., who suffered a traumatic brain injury, facial fractures, and permanent left-side paralysis after a Verizon New York truck struck him at a Brooklyn intersection in 2006.

Kings County Supreme Court · 2010Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$35.6 millionSettlement

Kramer Dillof Livingston and Moore secured a $35.6 million pre-verdict settlement, the highest in New York State history at the time, for a teenager who suffered catastrophic brain damage after Westchester Medical Center failed to treat frontal sinus fractures sustained in a scooter collision.

New York (Westchester County Healthcare Corp.) · 2024Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

After Amtrak Train 188 derailed in Philadelphia in May 2015, killing eight and injuring more than 200, Kline & Specter's Thomas R. Kline led the plaintiffs' negotiations that produced a $265 million settlement fund for the victims.

Philadelphia, PA (federal) · 2016Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$35 millionVerdict

A Manhattan jury found building owner 271 Madison Co. 100% liable and awarded $35.15 million to Meghan Brown, a former JPMorgan analyst who suffered a traumatic brain injury when a glass lobby door at 271 Madison Avenue shattered on her in February 2015.

Manhattan Supreme Court · 2024Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$29 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2017 · #16

In March 2017 a Manhattan jury found the owner of 82 Second Avenue liable after Anastasia Klupchak, then a 22-year-old NYU student, fell through an unguarded opening in an illegal vertical ladder fire escape in 2008 and was paralyzed from the waist down. The jury set her damages at about $37.4 million and found her 25 percent at fault, which brought the net figure to about $29.4 million. A high-low agreement signed before the verdict capped the payout, and Klupchak recovered $29 million.

New York County Supreme Court, Manhattan · 2017Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

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$265 million · The Amtrak 188 Derailment and the $265 Million Fund for Its Victims

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Attorneys at Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore

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