About Thomas M. Mercure
Thomas M. Mercure is a senior partner of the firm and practices in personal injury litigation, including automobile accidents, motorcycle accidents, construction accidents, dog bite injuries, slip and fall accidents, boating accidents, products liability, and medical malpractice. Mr. Mercure has successfully represented injured clients in numerous complex products liability cases involving a variety of defective products, including power tools, farm and industrial equipment and machinery, medical devices, hunting equipment, and all-terrain vehicles. Mr. Mercure represents individuals whose rights have been violated by local, state, or federal authorities in claims involving police misconduct and prison and jail abuse. He has extensive trial experience in various state and federal courts. As a result, many local and out-of-state attorneys refer their cases to Mr. Mercure for trial, settlement, or arbitration.
He also assists major national firms in complex litigation. Mr. Mercure's well-respected abilities have allowed him to help thousands of people receive the best possible results for the injuries they have suffered. Through settlements, arbitrations, and verdicts, he has obtained millions of dollars for individuals who have been injured by the actions of others. The following are examples of some of the results Mr. Mercure has achieved for his clients.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria
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An Erie County jury awarded $100 million to a woman sexually abused over four years beginning at age 12, the largest Child Victims Act verdict in New York State history.
A Monroe County jury ordered former Rochester Catholic priest Foster Rogers to pay $95 million to a man he sexually assaulted in 1979, when the victim was 15 years old, in one of the largest Child Victims Act verdicts in New York history.
An Erie County jury awarded $65 million to a woman who was sexually abused over seven years as a child by former Buffalo YMCA counselor James B. Jackson, in one of the largest verdicts under New York's Child Victims Act.
An Erie County jury awarded $30 million to a man who was sexually abused as a child by Rev. Douglas D. Thore, a Lutheran pastor in Marilla, NY, in what was reported as the largest Child Victims Act verdict in Western New York at the time.
An Erie County jury awarded $25 million to a man sexually abused by his Boy Scout troop leader in Cheektowaga during the early 1970s, in what presiding Judge Mark Grisanti described as the first jury verdict reached under New York's Child Victims Act.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.