• 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 lawyer and practicing personal injury litigation.

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, Bob Moore was hired by the Skeen family to investigate the possibilities of obtaining Workman's Compensation Death Benefits from Monsanto which 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 the 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. This case was then accepted by the Houston attorney John M. O'Quinn, under 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, for three and a half months. The trial resulted in a $107 million dollar 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 had been tried to a verdict in Corpus Christi.

Our verdict was set aside, and the case was retried by Bob Moore and John O'Quinn in a bifurcated trial for another six weeks on the issue of causation. After a favorable jury verdict on "causation," 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 against a refinery explosion in Texas City; fourteen (14) death cases arising out of the Autumn Hills Nursing Home in Texas City; death claims for electrocution against Houston Lighting and Power; death claims for railroad crossing accidents; products liability cases; serious injury and death claims from automobile accidents; and serious injuries from product liability 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.

In addition, Bob Moore has 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 their negligence and malpractice.

Out of State Representation:

Bob Moore has had clients who have been injured out of State and has worked with attorneys from other States in making large recoveries for clients; and 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.