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About Thomas Principe
Thomas J. Principe is a partner at Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore. He came to the firm in April 1989 after practicing as a defense attorney, having previously squared off against fellow partner Thomas Moore on multiple occasions before Moore recruited him to join KDLM. At the firm, he conducts examinations before trial, using his defense background to illuminate opposing strategies and sift through medical records and transcriptions. He previously served as an Assistant District Attorney in Queens County from 1974 to 1979, rising to Deputy Bureau Chief of the Supreme Court Trial Bureau.
He served on the Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary for New York City starting in 2014. Principe retired as a Brigadier General from the New York Army National Guard in July 2006 after 33 years of service, earning the Legion of Merit from the U.S. Army and the Conspicuous Service Medal from the State of New York. During September 11, 2001 operations, he authored personnel guidelines on Rules of Engagement, Excessive Use of Force, and Employment Rights. He is a past president of the St. John's University School of Law Alumni Association and has been President of the Veterans of the Seventh Regiment in Manhattan since 2007.
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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