Bradly E Moore

  Bradly E. Moore is an US Army veteran who was honorably discharged in 1994. From there, he graduated with honors from the University of Kentucky with degrees in finance and accounting. Brad earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1998. 

  Brad is a trial attorney and enjoys trying any civil case.  His caseload is primarily large loss and complex litigation cases. Brad is known for his keen ability to parachute in and effectively manage the many parts of a complex case and trial and is skilled at strategically evaluating both risk and reward in order to provide his clients the information they need to make informed decisions. 

  He has represented insurance companies, municipalities, doctors, lawyers, accountants, distributors, product manufacturers, general contractors and subcontractors, restaurants and bars, architects and engineers, large transportation companies, and heavy equipment companies. Brad has also handled matters involving toxic tort, intellectual property, employment law, and environmental claims.

  Throughout his career, Brad has defended large and small corporations, as well as professional individuals throughout Kentucky in multiple areas of civil litigation through trial, arbitration, and mediation. Brad also served as assigned counsel and insurance coverage counsel for commercial and personal lines carriers, as well as personal counsel for self-insured businesses. Brad has numerous reported appellate decisions on a wide range of issues and tried numerous cases throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky in both state and federal court. 

  He is currently an active member of the Kentucky and Fayette County Bar Associations, Claims and Litigation Management Alliance, Defense Research Institute, Kentucky Defense Counsel, and Federalist Society – Lexington Chapter. Originally from Henderson, Kentucky, Brad spends his time outside of the office with his wife and two children. He also manages to find time to set up and work with non-profit organizations.

Memberships

• Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (CLM)

• Council on Litigation Management

• Defense Research Institute

• Fayette County Bar Association

• Federalist Society – Lexington Chapter

• Kentucky Bar Association

• Kentucky Defense Counsel

Trial and Case Highlights

• In an insurance bad faith case, Brad obtained a directed verdict, at the close of Plaintiff’s case, in plaintiff’s oriented eastern Kentucky court wherein the last demand by the plaintiff was $7.5 million. 

• In another insurance bad faith case, the plaintiff asked the jury for $7,000,000 in damages in a very plaintiff-oriented venue and sought $3,000,000 to settle just before trial. At trial, the jury came back with a verdict of $923,000 for the bad faith.

• In a first party UIM suit, the plaintiff sought approximately $1,700,000 in total damages at trial.  Well before trial, Brad sent Plaintiff’s counsel an offer of judgment for $45,000, which is in addition to a 25k underlying limit and 10k PIP offset.  The jury verdict came in at approximately $72,000.  Therefore, the plaintiff had to pay the insurance company’s trial expenses and costs.

• In a trial of an automobile accident case, the plaintiff asked the jury for $630,000 in damages ($70,000 in past medical expenses, $140,000 for future medical expenses, and$420,000 for pain and suffering). The primary liability defense our team presented to the jury was that there was no evidence that our insured had anything other than a green light as he entered the intersection. After deliberating for 25 minutes, the jury returned a unanimous defense verdict. 

• Brad obtained a defense verdict on a social host liability case wherein the plaintiff was beat up at a party at the defendant’s home. At the time there was no law in the State of Kentucky on private individuals and their duties when alcohol is being served. Brad’s defense was that the dram shop laws did not apply to a situation where the host was serving alcohol in a social capacity and not-for-profit. After the case went up on appeal, and the Court of Appeals also agreed with Brad, it became a recorded decision in the Law of Kentucky. 

• In a multimillion-dollar product liability case and on the second day of trial, the judge recommended to Plaintiff’s counsel that the plaintiff accept whatever the defense offered.  Thereafter, plaintiff accepted the cost of the appeal.

• In a medical malpractice claim, plaintiff sought $7,200,000 for an injury to a shoulder. After a short trial of 3 days, the jury came back with a defense verdict on liability in approximately 24 minutes.

Practice Areas

• Accounting Malpractice

• Agriculture

• Automobile Accident Defense

• Bad Faith

• Commercial Lines (Premises Liability)

• Correctional Facility and Civil Rights Litigation

• Directors and Officers Litigation

• Discrimination Defense

• Employment Practices Liability

• Environmental Liability

• Excess Liability Claims

• Fraud Defense/EUO

• Healthcare and Long-Term Care Defense

• Insurance Agent (E&O)

• Legal Malpractice (E&O)

• Municipal Liability Defense

• PIP

• Personal Lines (Premises Liability)

• Products Liability

• Professional Liability

• Real Estate (E&O)

• Real Estate Closings

• Retail and Restaurant (Premises Liability)

• Transportation Defense

• UM/UIM

• Wrongful Death Defense

Admissions

• Kentucky

• Supreme Court of Kentucky

• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

• U.S. Tax Court

Education

• University of Kentucky College of Law, J.D.

• University of Kentucky, B.B.A. & B.S. clients in court.