Thomas W. Geng

 

 

 

Tom has over 15 years of experience handling claims for injured railroad workers, their families and other negligence victims. He specializes in pre-trial discovery and motions, post-trial motions and appeals, and has successfully briefed and argued numerous appeals before the Minnesota Court of Appeals, the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Washington Court of Appeals. Tom successfully represented injured claimants in the following reported cases:

•  Joseph Wiggs v. BNSF Railway Co., 106 Wash.App. 1013 (Wash. Ct. App. 2001) – reversing summary judgment on statute of limitations grounds in an FELA case in which the railroad removed a conductor from service due to the severe hearing loss he suffered over the course of his course of 36-year railroad career
• Dawn Wynkoop v. Ida Carpenter, 558 N.W.2d 527 (Minn. Ct. App. 1997), affirmed, 574 N.W.2d 422 (Minn. 1998) – winning a new trial after the trial court erroneously precluded a surviving family member from recovering damages in a wrongful death lawsuit and clarifying the class of potential beneficiaries under Minnesota’s wrongful death statute.
• William Moore v. Union Pacific Railroad, 920 P.2d 616 (Wash. Ct. App. 1996) – reversing summary judgment dismissing an FELA case in which a locomotive engineer suffered injuries in an auto collision while being deadheaded in a van.

Tom is a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association, the Minnesota Federal Bar Association, the Hennepin County Bar Association, and the Minnesota Association for Justice.  He is admitted in State and Federal Courts in Minnesota and the Colorado Federal Courts.

Tom graduated from Saint Mary’s College of California Magna Cum Laude in 1981 with a history degree.  He graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1991 and received the Kent Wennerstrom Memorial Award for his work as Student Director of the Civil Practice Clinic.  After law school, Tom clerked for two judges in Hennepin County District Court (Minneapolis) before joining Fred Bremseth’s FELA practice in 1983.

Before starting his law career, Tom joined the Washington, D.C. staff of Congressman James H. Scheuer (D-NY), a senior Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives.  While in Washington from 1981 to 1988, Tom served as a legislative aide, speech writer, and ultimately Chief of Staff to Representative Scheuer.

Tom was a volunteer motorman for the Minnesota Transportation Museum, operating its historic 1893 trolley car in Excelsior, and is a 20-year member and former president of the St. Paul Bouncing Team.  He is a member of the Shorewood Planning Commission, where he resides with his wife Nancy, and where they enjoy boating on Lake Minnetonka.