Jacobs & Crumplar
About the firm
Jacobs & Crumplar is a Delaware personal injury law firm co-founded in 1981 by Robert Jacobs and Thomas Crumplar in Wilmington. The firm handles personal injury, workers' compensation, medical malpractice, employment discrimination, civil rights, and mass-tort cases throughout Delaware and nationwide.
Notable results
Thomas Crumplar and co-counsel secured a $77.425 million trust for 146 survivors of clergy sexual abuse as part of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington's Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2011.
A Kent County jury awarded John Vai $63 million against defrocked priest Francis DeLuca and St. Elizabeth's Parish in Wilmington after finding both liable for childhood sexual abuse that began in the 1960s, producing what victim advocates called the largest compensatory verdict in U.S. clergy abuse history and the first time an individual parish was held accountable.
A Delaware federal jury awarded Brian Elliott $2.4 million in November 2013 after finding Marist Brother Damian Galligan liable for repeated sexual abuse that began when Elliott was eight years old.
A federal jury awarded Autumn Lampkins $1.525 million after finding that a Delaware KFC franchisee demoted her, cut her hours, and subjected her to a hostile work environment because she was lactating; a judge later vacated the punitive-damages award and ordered a new trial on the discrimination claims.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
