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About Tom Reimel
Thomas W. Reimel is an associate attorney at Roth & Roth, LLP whose primary focus since relocating to New York has been transportation and automobile litigation, along with premises liability. A cum laude graduate of Western Michigan University Law School, he clerked for the Honorable William P. Mahon in the Chester County (PA) Court of Common Pleas and served as in-house trial and appellate brief writer for a Philadelphia personal injury and admiralty firm, where he litigated matters ranging from a case of first impression under Pennsylvania's Equine Activities Act to products liability. Beginning with a legal internship as a public defender straight out of law school, Mr. Reimel has spent more than 15 years fighting for injured people and advocating for victims. He is a member of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. Outside the office he competes in endurance motor racing in a vintage Triumph sports car he helped modify and volunteers as a speech and debate coach.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Roth & Roth, LLP
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A Brooklyn federal jury awarded $81.7 million to Luisa Janssen Harger Da Silva, a Brazilian student who fainted onto the tracks at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station in 2016 and lost her left arm and left leg, in the first US verdict holding a transit system liable for failing to install platform barriers, but the money is far from paid: the MTA says it will appeal, and its fully briefed motions to throw out the verdict entirely or order a new trial are still pending before Judge Frederic Block.
Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Rochester man in the middle of a mental health crisis, died in March 2020 after police officers put a spit hood over his head and held him face down on the pavement until he stopped breathing. The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide from asphyxia during restraint, though a state grand jury declined to indict the officers. Elliot D. Shields of Roth & Roth, LLP filed the family's federal civil rights suit against the City of Rochester in September 2020. On October 6, 2022, a federal judge approved a $12 million settlement, split evenly between pain-and-suffering and wrongful death claims, with the city admitting no liability.
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