Personal Injury

• Automobile and Truck Collisions; Related Claims for Damages and Personal Injuries, including Railroad Crossings
• Refinery Explosions
• Nursing Home Injuries and Death Claims
• Medical Malpractice Dlaims
• Products Liability Claims
• Attorney Malpractice Claims
• Engineering Malpractice Claims
• Toxic Tort Litigation
• Admiralty and Jones Act Personal Cases Both in State and Federal Courts
• Suits against Insurance Companies for Breach of Contract in Life, Accident, Health, Fire, Liabitlity, Uninsured Motorist and Underinsured Motorist Coverages
• Prosecution and Defense of Deceptive Trade Practices Act cases against Individuals, Banks and Insurance Companies

Leading Representative Case
Skeen v. Monsanto Co., 569 F.Supp. 232

The "backbone" of Bob Moore's practice through the years has been as a personal injury trial lawyer.

As a result of an environmental lawsuit filed by Bob Moore for the Peterson family for nuisance and air pollution against the Monsanto and Amoco facilities on Chocolate Bayou near its entry with West Galveston Bay, Mr. Moore was hired by the Skeen family to investigate the possibility of obtaining Workers' Compensation Death Benefits from Monsanto, who had denied any benefits to the widow and five children of Mr. Jack Skeen.

Mr. Skeen had died of chronic myologenous leukemia after having worked at Monsanto's Chocolate Bayou plant for many years. Monsanto denied that Mr. Skeen's death was work-related. Mr. Skeen worked in the ethylene unit, which had benzene emissions in the workplace.

After filing suit under the Wrongful Death Statute in Federal Court to establish that benzene exposure was the cause of Jack Skeen's death and after several years of preparing for litigation, the company still refused to accept its full responsibility and made only a nominal offer to settle. Houston attorney John O'Quinn then accepted the case with the condition that Bob Moore participate in the trial of the case and continue to provide additional manpower through one of his associate attorneys, Jeff Kilgore. Mr. O'Quinn provided the money to finance the case expenses, which ultimately amounted to $1.4 million, as well as his talent and additional attorneys to help prepare the case for trial.

John O'Quinn and Bob Moore tried the case in 1986 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division, with the help of Mr. Jeff Kilgore. The trial lasted for three and a half months and resulted in a $107 million jury verdict for the Skeen family. At that time, this was the single largest personal injury verdict in Texas, edging out the first Ford Pinto case that was tried to a verdict in Corpus Christi.

Our verdict was set aside, and Bob Moore and John O'Quinn retried the case for another six weeks in a bifurcated trial on the issue of causation. After a favorable jury verdict, the case settled for an undisclosed amount, which must be held confidential under the terms of the settlement agreement.

Other Cases:

Bob Moore has also handled death claim actions due to a refinery explosion in Texas City, fourteen (14) death cases arising out of the Autumn Hills Nursing Home in Texas City; and death claims for electrocution against Houston Lighting and Power. He has also handled death claims for railroad crossing accidents; serious injury and death claims from automobile accidents; and cases involving serious injuries from product defects that have caused catastrophic damages.

In addition, Bob Moore has handled hundreds of cases of automobile collisions where serious to non-permanent injuries have occurred.

Bob Moore has also handled attorney malpractice cases and has recovered substantial damages; medical malpractice cases against doctors; slip-and-fall cases against grocery stores, and claims against hospitals for negligence and malpractice.

Out of State Representation:

Bob Moore has had clients who were injured out of state and has worked with attorneys from other states in making large recoveries for clients. He has actually traveled to the State of Indiana to assert claims that were said to be impossible to make any recovery and obtained substantial settlements after having been admitted to Federal Court in the State of Indiana.

In addition, Bob works both with local as well as out-of-state attorneys by referring the cases to the most successful firms in the areas of catastrophic injuries, death claims and ordinary substantial injuries in cases that require the expenditure of substantial sums of money for litigation.