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About Thomas Moore
Thomas A. Moore is a senior partner at Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore and has been recognized by the National Law Journal as Lawyer of the Year twice. He has won 95 trials with verdicts exceeding $1 million and negotiated settlements for clients totaling over $1 billion. In 2014, American Legal Media announced its Medical Malpractice Hall of Fame, and Moore had four of the top 25 cases, more than any other attorney, including the second- and third-largest verdicts in New York history. Moore is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and a member of the International Society of Barristers.
He co-authors a regular column for the New York Law Journal with partner Matthew Gaier and co-wrote leading legal textbooks on medical malpractice and trial practice. He has endowed a chair in Trial Advocacy at Fordham Law School and received Fordham University's Founder's Award in 2014. Moore was raised in Waterford, Ireland, and came to the United States at age 17.
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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 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.
A Wayne County jury awarded $96 million to the widow of a New Jersey father and his college-baseball-star son, both killed when a Challenger Motor Freight semi rear-ended their SUV in a Detroit-area construction zone while the driver was on three Parkinson's disease medications that warned against operating heavy equipment.
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.
A Manhattan jury awarded $45.2 million to Marion Hedges, who suffered permanent brain damage after two boys threw a shopping cart from a fourth-floor walkway onto her head at East River Plaza mall in East Harlem on October 30, 2011.
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.
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.
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