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About Joseph Fortunato
Joseph Fortunato is an associate at Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore with a practice focused on general liability and medical malpractice cases, including catastrophic accidents and construction matters. He graduated magna cum laude from Pace University School of Law in 2015, where he served on Law Review, was a teaching assistant to several professors, and clerked at the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York. He graduated cum laude from Quinnipiac University in 2012.
Before joining KDLM, Fortunato served as a prosecutor in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, acting as lead counsel on numerous trials and investigating and indicting hundreds of crimes. He then represented major developers and construction managers in New York State in general liability and construction accident matters before transitioning to plaintiff personal injury work. He has been recognized in the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40.
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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