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tmarrone@feldmanshepherd.com
For nearly 20 years Tom Marrone has creatively and aggressively represented individuals in a variety of complex civil litigation matters, especially class actions, insurance coverage and bad faith claims, personal injury claims involving catastrophic injury, HMO liability, attorney malpractice, product liability, and appellate advocacy. He has served as class counsel in cutting edge class actions involving privacy issues, HMO liability, fraud, and consumer protection.
A member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Mr. Marrone has instructed other lawyers on class action litigation and on sophisticated insurance coverage matters, and has argued a number of cases before Pennsylvania's appellate courts. He is a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association and the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Associations.
Along with others in the firm, Mr. Marrone is committed to providing legal services to those who cannot afford to pay a lawyer, and he maintains an active portfolio of pro bono matters from, among others, Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.
Mr. Marrone is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and is a partner with the firm.
Thomas More Marrone honored by Philadelphia Magazine as a class action/mass torts Super Lawyer in 2005.
Mr. Marrone was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his Undergraduate and Law Degrees from Villanova University, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Advocacy. His recent successes include:
- A $3.5 million class action settlement for invasion of privacy on behalf of mental health patients treated by a fraudulent psychiatrist
- A $3.4 million settlement for a worker who fell ten stories from the roof of an apartment building
- Class Certification and Summary Judgement in a class action on behalf of thousands of individuals and professionals who were overbilled by a medical record copy service
- Settlement of a class action against the Philadelphia Gas Works for testing of homes for mercury following PGW's removal of gas regulators (pending court approval)
AREAS OF PRACTICE
Complex litigation
Class actions
Insurance coverage and bad faith
HMO liability
Personal injury claims involving catastrophic injury
Attorney malpractice
Product liability
Appellate advocacy
BAR ADMISSIONS
Pennsylvania, 1987
New Jersey, 1987
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
1987
U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1987
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1992
U.S. Supreme Court, 2006
EDUCATION
Villanova University School of Law, J.D., 1987
Villanova University, B.A., 1984
Fellow, Academy of Advocacy, 1998
SIGNIFICANT CASES AND COURT DECISIONS
Katlin v. Tremoglie (certification and $3.5 million settlement of class action on behalf of mental health patients treated by a fraudulent psychiatrist). See Katlin v. Tremoglie, et al., 43 Pa. D. & C. 4th 373 (Phila. 1999).
Madden v. JEG Associates ($3.4 million settlement for catastrophic injuries to worker who fell ten stories from roof of apartment building)
Liss & Marion, P.C. v. Recordex Acquisition Corp.
(class action on behalf of thousands of class members who were overbilled by medical record copy service)
Tate v. Pileggi &
Sons, Inc. ($900,000 settlement for wrongful death of paving crew foreman run over by dump truck)
Johnson v. Grand
Cru Property One Limited Partnership (class action on
behalf of residents and tenants at Lynnewood Gardens Apartments
arising from wrongful electric service shut offs). See
Johnson v. Grand Cru Property One Limited Partnership, 49
Pa. D. & C. 4th 531 (Montco. 2000)
Sage v. Greenspan & Gaber, et al. ($750,000 settlement and arbitrator's award in legal malpractice claims based upon underlying gas explosion case). See Sage v. Greenspan, 765 A.2d 1139 (Pa. Super. 2001)
Krisa v. Equitable Life Assurance Society (claim for disability
insurance benefits, fraud, bad faith, and wrongful use of
civil proceedings) See Krisa v. Equitable Life Assurance
Society,196 F.R.D. 254 (M.D. Pa. 2000); Krisa v. Equitable
Life Assurance Society, 109 F. Supp. 2d 316 (M.D. Pa. 2000);
Krisa v. Equitable Life Assurance Society, 113 F.Supp. 2d
694 (M.D. Pa. 2000)
Acey v. Rising Sun (wrongful death of two firefighters,
and catastrophic injuries to third firefighter, in devastating
church fire)
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