Law Firm: Block O’Toole & Murphy
Specialty: Workers’ Compensation
Address: 1 Penn Plaza Suite 5315, New York, NY 10119
Email: info@blockotoole.com
Phone: 212-736-5300
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Website: blockotoole.com
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Daniel P. O’Toole is a top trial lawyer in New York. He graduated from Fordham Law in 1992 and is licensed in New York and New Jersey. Mr. O’Toole helps accident victims throughout his career. In his 30-year career, Mr. O’Toole has amassed approximately $415,000,000 in settlements and over $110,000,000 in verdicts in the last seven years. His lifetime settlements and verdicts now top $800,000. In the first eight months of 2022, Mr. O’Toole’s team settled over $120 million in lawsuits. In 2020, Mr. O’Toole had the first and seventh largest premises liability settlements. Mr. O’Toole and his partner Scott Occhiogrosso won the greatest personal injury decision in the US and the second and third largest settlements in New York State in 2019.
In his career, Mr. O’Toole has won over 200 settlements over $1 million. Mr. O’Toole reported the No. 1 mediated settlement in New York ($12,000,000 for a construction accident case) and the No. 2 trial settlement ($13,500,000 for an auto accident case) in 2017. In 2018, Mr. O’Toole received nearly $50,000,000, including a $13,000,000 wrongful death settlement within a year of the event. In 2019, Mr. O’Toole settled 20 multimillion-dollar lawsuits, including a $11,500,000 payment for an injured construction worker and a $6,500,000 settlement for a union mechanic. In his career, Mr. O’Toole has settled 10 cases over $10,000,000.
Five times, Mr. O’Toole won verdicts among the 10 biggest personal injury awards in New York State. Year after year, Mr. O’Toole obtains some of the biggest payouts for construction accident, auto accident, and wrongful death clients in New York. In 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020, Block O’Toole & Murphy had more top 25 settlements than any other New York firm.
Mr. O’Toole has handled construction accident, road design and maintenance, medical malpractice, negligent security, tractor trailer, industrial, bad faith insurance, and vehicle accident cases.
Services Performed
Mr. O’Toole is a strong proponent for construction worker safety and serves as Co-Chairman of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association Labor Law Committee. He will fight for legislation that safeguards New York City’s workforce and general populace.
Honors
In April 2020, Fordham Law School honored Mr. O’Toole and his wife at their Scholarship Benefactors Reception. In June 2019, Mr. O’Toole won the Frank O’Hara Distinguished Alumni Award. The prize is the University’s highest distinction and was granted to Mr. O’Toole for his legal and charitable work. In October 2018, Fordham Law School’s Feerick Center for Social Justice gave Mr. O’Toole the James F. Gill Spirit of Hope Award. His alma mater, Bergen Catholic High School, awarded him the Founder’s Medal (the school’s highest honor) in 2016 for his lifetime achievements and accomplishments. In 2018, Mr. O’Toole was selected Runner of the Year by One Mission, a Boston pediatric cancer organization, for his fundraising efforts running the 2018 Boston Marathon. Mr. O’Toole ran the 2020 Boston Marathon for HomeStart Boston, a homeless organization. He raised the third-most money by an individual runner at the Boston Marathon.
From 2008 to 2021, Mr. O’Toole was a “Super Lawyer” in New York, making him one of the top 5% of personal injury lawyers in the state. Since 2009, Mr. O’Toole has been a Top 100 Trial Lawyer. From 2010 through 2020, he’s been in the Irish Legal 100, which celebrates top Irish American lawyers in the US. Mr. O’Toole is also one of New York’s Best Lawyers for 2014-2020.
In 2012, New York’s Brehon Law Society named Mr. O’Toole Lawyer of the Year. Institute of Jewish Humanities named him Lawyer of the Year in 2012 and 2013. In March 2013, Mr. O’Toole was named Man of the Year by the Brooklyn to Alaska Project.
