Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore
About the firm
Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore (KDLM) is a New York plaintiff's law firm founded in 1950 that concentrates on medical malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death cases. The firm has won over 150 verdicts exceeding $1 million and has recovered more than $3 billion in total settlements and verdicts for its clients.
Notable results
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.












