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Boyd vs. BNSF Railroad
Lisa Boyd was employed by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad and worked
at their intermodal facility in Memphis. While working on moving a 40,000-pound
container from a truck to a railcar, a malfunction caused the container
to pin her between the container and the back of the truck it was being
removed from. She suffered physical injuries and PTSD. A jury in Memphis
awarded her $5,000,000 for her injuries. That award was reduced the trial
judge to $4,500,000.
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Conseco v. Costello
Our three clients were beneficiaries of life insurance policies taken out
by their mother. The insurance company refused to pay the policies. A
federal jury in Shelby County returned verdicts for our clients, assessing
the full statutory bad faith penalty on each policy for a total recovery
of $411,000.
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Gammage v. Pineapple Management
Our client suffered a significant theft of property from his hotel room.
We sued the hotel and a jury awarded $140,000.
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Gregory v. Shelby County, Tennessee
An inmate assaulted and killed another inmate. A deputy jailer's deliberate
act made the attack possible. In a civil rights action that we filed for
the deceased inmate's family, the family was awarded $750,000 in compensatory
damages and $2.2 million in punitive damages.
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Hall vs Illinois Central
Our client suffered an amputation of his leg while working as a conductor
for the railroad. Net verdict : $2.4 million
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Holt v. City of Memphis
Our clients' relative died because paramedics negligently failed to
transport her to the hospital. In a wrongful death claim that we filed
against the City of Memphis, a Shelby County judge returned a $78,000
verdict in favor of our clients.
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Hutchins v. Burlington Northern
A railroad employee fell from an overpass, rendering him permanently disabled.
A Shelby County jury determined that the railroad had failed to maintain
the overpass safely and returned a $2 million verdict in favor of our
clients, members of the employee's family.
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Mark Northcutt v. ServiceMaster
Our client, an airline pilot, suffered permanent damage after slipping
on a substance on the floor of an airport lounge. Airline employees had
called ServiceMaster numerous times to clean the spill, but they had failed
to appear. A Shelby County jury returned a $1.2 million verdict against
ServiceMaster in favor of our client.
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Perkins v. Allstate Insurance Company
Our client was accused of insurance fraud for arranging the destruction
of his own pickup truck. A Shelby County jury exonerated him and awarded damages.
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Sprague v BNSF Railroad
Our client suffered an amputation of his leg while working as a conductor
for the railroad. Verdict: Confidential settlement while jury deliberated.
