Block O'Toole & Murphy

New York, NY 25+ years in PI NY Bar · Active

Score breakdown

Case results 22% weight
94.0/100
Peer recognition 18% weight
93.0/100
Years in PI 14% weight
92.0/100
Bar standing 10% weight
100.0/100
Trial experience 14% weight
90.0/100
Client reviews 7% weight
92.0/100
Quality of practice 15% weight
94.0/100

Overview

<p>Block O'Toole &amp; Murphy, LLP is a plaintiff personal-injury firm headquartered at 1 Penn Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, with an additional office in New Jersey. The firm concentrates its practice on large-scale tort litigation arising from construction-site accidents, motor-vehicle and truck collisions, bus crashes, premises liability, wrongful death, and medical malpractice, handling matters primarily in New York State and New Jersey courts. Admitted attorneys practice in both New York and New Jersey, and the firm has represented clients across all five boroughs as well as the broader metropolitan region.</p><p>The firm's documented case record includes several high-value results across a range of practice areas. In April 2019, partners Scott C. Occhiogrosso and Daniel P. O'Toole secured a $110,174,972 jury verdict in Brooklyn Supreme Court against the New York City Transit Authority on behalf of a cyclist rendered paraplegic when a railroad tie was dropped from an elevated subway structure under maintenance — reported at the time as the largest non-medical-malpractice verdict in New York State history, as covered by PR Newswire. In 2023, the firm obtained a $53,500,000 jury verdict for a construction laborer who sustained paraplegia after a fall during rooftop equipment work. A 2025 settlement of $10,100,000, reached after seven years of litigation reported by PR Newswire, resolved a New York Labor Law claim for a worker who suffered an above-the-knee amputation after being struck while directing traffic at a construction site. Aggregate reported client recoveries have surpassed $2 billion since 2012.</p><p>The New York Law Journal has consistently listed Block O'Toole &amp; Murphy as reporting more case results exceeding $1,000,000 in New York State than any other firm each year since 2012. U.S. News &amp; World Report places the firm in Tier 1 for Personal Injury Litigation — Plaintiffs in the New York City region. Managing partner Daniel P. O'Toole received the 2026 Best Lawyers 'Lawyer of the Year' designation for Personal Injury Litigation — Plaintiff in New York City, a recognition conferred on one attorney per practice area per metropolitan market annually. Fifteen firm attorneys appear on the 2026 Super Lawyers New York Metro lists — including partners Jeffrey A. Block, Stephen J. Murphy, and O'Toole on the New York Metro Top 100 — and the firm itself was designated a 2026 New York Metro Top Firm for Personal Injury Plaintiffs by Super Lawyers.</p>

Source: www.blockotoole.com

Practice areas

Construction Accidents Car Accidents Medical Malpractice Catastrophic Injury

Documented case results

Cited from public sources. Co-counsel results carry half weight in the rank.

$2B+
Settlement Multiple 2024

Aggregate firm recoveries — Block O'Toole & Murphy reports over $2 billion in lifetime recoveries across 300+ million-dollar case results.

Source: Block O'Toole & Murphy firm website

Peer recognition

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