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About Gerald Oginski
Gerald M. Oginski is Of Counsel at Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore and has more than 30 years of experience in medical malpractice and accident law. He has successfully represented clients harmed by physician or hospital malpractice and those injured by someone else's negligence. He was among the first attorneys in the country to create educational video content for injured consumers, having produced over 3,000 YouTube videos explaining how medical malpractice and accident cases work. He is the author of four books: Secrets of a New York Medical Malpractice Attorney, Doctors Gone Wild, Beyond the ER Doors, and In Case of Death.
He lectures annually at the New York City Bar Association on medical malpractice cases and holds a 10.0 AVVO rating. He received the Young Visionary Award from Mike Papantonio, President of the National Trial Lawyers. Oginski graduated from SUNY Stony Brook in 1985 and from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in 1988.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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