Edward Moor has 19 years of experience as a trial lawyer. Mr. Moor focuses his practice on business disputes, products liability, personal injury, professional malpractice, and class actions. He has worked as national counsel in class action litigation nationwide in multiple jurisdictions and as regional and local counsel for several corporations. He has defended aviation manufacturers, tire manufacturers, auto manufacturers, American Motorcyclist Association licensed road race professionals, and has also prosecuted breach of contract cases for oil companies as well as injury and death cases for individuals. He has been rated as an "Illinois Super Lawyer" and is "AV" rated by Martindale Hubbell.
Additional Bar Admissions:
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit
U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, including Trial Bar
U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois
U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois
U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana
U.S. District Court Southern District of Indiana
Publications:
Indiana Trial Evidence Manual, Michie, 1989-1991 (co-author)
Representative Cases:
McCloud v. Goodyear Dunlop North America, United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. Defended Dunlop in a failed tire case involving brain damage and quadriplegia. 2007.
Robert and Patricia Cummings v. Dr. Giri Gireesan, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. Verdict for clients (Cummings): $1,473,500. Defense counsel was Michael Wagner of Baker & McKenzie. Facts: Robert Cummings was badly injured in an auto accident while working as an IDOT Minuteman. At the hospital, Cummings was found to have suffered a fractured left hip, and pelvic fractures at the symphysis pubis and the sacro-iliac joint on both the right and left. He was stabilized, but was found to have severe nerve damage to his left leg. He had no known problems with his right leg and hand. An operation was performed to repair his left hip fracture resulting in nerve damage to his right side, a permanent drop foot and ulnar nerve impairment. We alleged that Dr. Gireesan failed to properly protect the right leg during surgery, and failed to timely treat the ulnar nerve injury at the elbow. The defense claimed that the right foot drop was the result of pelvic fracture implications, argued that it was a risk of surgery, and argued that the right leg could not have been damaged in surgery because of the type of table that was used. The defense claimed that Dr. Gireesan properly treated the ulnar nerve lesion by prescribing therapy and claimed that a surgical release was not required. Highest offer was $300,000. Lowest demand was $1,000,000. Reported in West Group's Verdicts, Settlements & Tactics, Vol. 19, No. 11, pp. 493-494, November 1999.
Peterson v. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. Client: Goodyear. A Goodyear franchisee repaired a tire improperly. The tire failed catastrophically during highway use, contributing to a rollover and resulting in one passenger being rendered a C5 quadriplegic. Plaintiff claimed Goodyear inadequately trained and supervised its franchisee. Not guilty for Goodyear; co-defendants settled prior to trial for $2.5 million. Case was reported in the National Law Journal and in the BNA’s "Product Safety and Liability Reporter," Vol. 23:23, pp. 614-615, June 16, 1995.
Yoder v. Roundy's Inc., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. Represented Roundy's, Inc. Opposing counsel were Kevin Durkin and John Karnezis of Clifford Law Office. Co-counsel with Barry Montgomery for Roundy's in suit seeking $110 million in damages for multiple catastrophic injuries and a death resulting from a 15 car pile up on Interstate 90. Verdict of $10.3M against Roundy's, Inc. was one-half the lowest pretrial demand. 2004.
Holmes v. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, U.S.D.C. Northern District of Illinois. Client: Goodyear. Plaintiff asked jury for $1,500,000 for two operated herniated cervical discs and permanent chronic pain syndrome. Jury found for Goodyear. Two week trial, February 1998. Case was reported in the "National Jury Verdict Review & Analysis" Reporter, Vol. 13:3, at pp. 36-37, March 1998.
Sanders v. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, et al., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. Represented Goodyear. Opposing counsel were Keith Davidson and Christopher Mullen. A Ford E350 van rolled over causing one death and an amputation to a 14 year old female. Defective tire was alleged to have blown out. Case settled for 1 percent of lowest demand shortly before trial. 2003.
Roger Jackson, Special Administrator of the Estate of Janet Jackson v. Dr. Basil Chronis, in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. Client: Roger Jackson. Defense counsel were Dominick Savaino and John Raith of Clausen Miller P.C., Chicago. Janet Jackson presented to her obstetrician and gynecologist in November 1987 at her 6 week postpartum examination after the birth of her fourth child, whom she was breast feeding, and told him that she had a lump under her left arm. Dr. Chronis, who had delivered all of Janet Jackson's four children, told her that it was a clogged milk gland and to return if it got worse. Nine months later the lump became painful. Since she had to wait four weeks for an appointment to see Dr. Chronis, she went to her husband's physician who immediately scheduled her for a biopsy. The biopsy showed that the lump was cancerous, and one month later she was diagnosed with Stage IV melanoma. Janet Jackson died in March of 1989. Chronis had $1,000,000 in coverage. The case settled for $950,000 after the discovery depositions of the defendant's nationally known experts were concluded.
Lahey v. Northern Illinois Clinical Laboratory, in the Circuit Court of Cook County, 98 L 4706. Settled on June 20, 2001 for $250,000. Defense counsel were Thomas R. Hill of Rooks, Pitts and Poust and later, John M. McGarry of Hickey, Melia & Kurfirst, Chtd., and Brian T. Henry of Pretzel & Stouffer, Chtd. The Clinic, and two pathologists employed by it, misdiagnosed a melanoma lesion as a benign mole. The sample was submitted by a plastic surgeon, and the pathology report that was sent back to the plastic surgeon from the defendants described the lesion as benign. As a result, the plastic surgeon did not perform a wider excision, which was the standard treatment for the type of melanoma lesion the plaintiff had, and the lesion recurred one year later and eventually spread to the plaintiff's axilla lymph nodes requiring a lymphendectomey.
Castineiras v. Swedish Covenant Hospital, Dr. Muhammud Saudye,Dr. Barbara Brotine, and the Medial Care Group. Circuit Court of Cook County. Settled for $950,000, after it was assigned for trial. Defense Counsel was James M. Hofert of Hinshaw & Culbertson; John N. Seibel of Cassiday, Schade & Gloor; Robert H. Smith and Vito M. Masciopinto of Lowis & Gellen. Raquel Castineiras, a thirty year old who had delivered her second child three months before, presented to her internist, Dr. Brotine, after a week of complaints of shortness of breath, chest pressure, and fatigue. Dr. Brotine prescribed Zantac for gastroesophageal reflux. Two days later, Raquel collapsed at work after suffering what plaintiff asserted was a massive myocardial infarction. Upon arrival at Swedish Covenant Hospital, an acute myocardial infarction was diagnosed by EKG, but the appropriate TPA treatment was not initiated for two hours. Raquel died six hours after being admitted. The defense had contended that the absence of an autopsy made it impossible to rule out myocarditis or coronary artery dissection as alternate causes of death. Dr. Brotine had contended that she complied with the standard of care in not ordering an EKG because the risk factors for cardiac disease in Raquel were virtually nonexistent.
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