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Class Actions - Workers’ Compensation Law:
Dean and Pilkington, et al. v. Multiple Injury Trust Fund, f/k/a Special Indemnity Fund of the State of Oklahoma, Administered by the State Insurance Fund, Workers Compensation Court Case #86-16937Q consolidated with #89-04341F.
Settlement of class action resulting in payment of benefits totaling approximately $71.2 million to 13,000+ members of the class consisting of injured Oklahoma workers.
Premises Liability:
Broken stair at apartment complex in common area, injured guest of tenant as invitee, licensee status, knee injury, pre-existing condition and previous injuries to knee.
Insurance Claims - Life Insurance:
Recovery of life insurance proceeds by wife who killed husband in self-defense.
Automobile Injuries - Insurance Claims: Highway dispersal loop collision with concrete barriers; phantom hit and run driver; spine injury, under-insured motorist coverage, stacking issues.
Motorcycle Injuries - Insurance Claims: Automobile turning left hit oncoming motorcycle, leg amputation, under-insured motorist coverage, bad faith insurance law, stacking issues.
Automobile Injuries - Insurance Claims: Collision with rollover; spine injury, under-insured motorist coverage, bad faith insurance law.
Dangerous or Defective Products: Product liability; electrical surge through municipal power grid resulting in house fire and burns to minor plaintiff.
Professional Negligence: Mis-handling of a corpse during burial, negligent infliction of emotional distress.
Automobile Injuries - Insurance Claims: Plaintiff speeding at time of collision, comparative negligence, under-insured motorist coverage, paraplegia, stacking issues.
Premises Liability: Slip and fall on tracked in snow; retail grocery store customer, business invitee, traumatic brain injury, concussion, cognitive deficits.
Premises Liability: Plaintiff struck by potted plant which fell from hanging array in atrium area of multi-story executive office building; traumatic brain injury, concussion, cognitive deficits.
Dangerous or Defective Products - Wrongful Death:
Product liability; defective turning roll machine tipped an 8 ton vessel onto manufacturing floor crushing decedent.
Dangerous or Defective Products - Wrongful Death:
Product liability; loss of mercaptan odorant due to gas migration from underground leak, natural gas explosion.
Dangerous or Defective Products:
Product liability; defective conveyer system, unguarded chain drive; traumatic amputation of great toe and second toe.
Tractor Trailer Accidents - Automobile Collision:
Spine injuries - multiple surgeries - failed back surgery syndrome.
Automobile Injuries - Insurance Claims - Wrongful Death:
Out of state triple fatality of college students during spring break; insurance bad faith law; dual residence of college student satisfies “resident relative” language in parents’ policy thus triggering stacking of multiple uninsured motorist coverages and policies.
Dangerous or Defective Products:
Product liability; defective paper shredder, fingers in contact with unguarded blades.
Dangerous or Defective Products:
Product liability; defective turning roll machine tipped a 3 ton vessel onto manufacturing floor crushing decedent, wrongful death, after-born child.
Motorcycle Injuries - Insurance Claims:
Automobile turning left hit oncoming motorcycle; insurance bad faith law; uninsured motorist coverage; stacking of multiple coverages and policies; comminuted compound fracture of leg; settled during trial.
Tractor Trailer Accidents - Automobile Collision:
Brain injury to minor child; orthopedic spine injuries to other occupants.
Assault and Battery:
Injury during unilateral horse play, brain injury to teenager.
Assault and Battery:
Sexual battery of sedated patient by radiology technician at hospital.
Construction Negligence:
Heavy metal poisoning of patients due to construction defect in state of the art medical facility.
Dangerous or Defective Products - Tractor Trailer Accidents:
Product liability; defective design of kingpin plate caused driver to lose control; failure to adequately inspect. Brain and spine injuries; after born child; parental loss of consortium for adult child functioning at profoundly diminished level due to traumatic injuries.
Dangerous or Defective Products:
Product liability; medical devices; defective hip replacement implant.
Dangerous or Defective Products:
Product liability; unshielded auger of cement mixing machine; severe hand injury; traumatic amputation of multiple digits.
Professional Negligence - Civil Litigation:
Abuse of process; settled during trial.
Automobile Injuries:
Drunk driver, respondeat superior; orthopedic injuries, traumatic leg amputation, children’s loss of consortium claims, punitive damages.
Dangerous or Defective Products - Wrongful Death:
Product liability; defective design of power control room - electrocution - wrongful death.
Premises Liability - Electrocution - Wrongful Death:
Minor child contacted electrical wiring while playing in backyard pool.
Negligence - Materials Handling - Failure to secure load:
Sheet metal flew from bed of truck driven by owner of heating and air conditioning company on busy I-44 highway causing multiple automobile collisions and causing plaintiff’s vehicle to leave the roadway and flip over onto its side. Orthopedic injuries required back surgery.
Automobile Injuries:
Driver crosses center line and median on expressway curve striking plaintiff’s vehicle causing it to leave the roadway and crash through barrier fence into trees. Orthopedic spine injuries - surgery.
Automobile Injuries - Lumber Company Truck - Failure to Yield:
Defendant’s driver made left turn in front of automobile driven by plaintiff. Multiple orthopedic spine injuries sustained by plaintiff who was previously a marathon runner. Cervical and lumbar spine surgeries required.
Dram Shop Liability - Employer Negligence - Automobile Injuries:
Company sponsored after hours party and served alcohol to its employees; party moved to neighborhood bar where intoxicated employee is served more alcohol to the point of falling down and vomiting. He later drives car into rear of a parked truck severely injuring passenger who required multiple surgeries to address: Lumbar spine - L4 burst fracture and L4-5 fracture subluxation injuries, comminuted fracture of right leg, broken jaw and facial injuries.
Dangerous or Defective Products:
Product liability; Construction crane tip-over - designed induced operator error; load exceeded weight bearing capacity of extended boom. Multiple orthopedic and neurological injuries.
Dangerous or Defective Products - Wrongful Death:
Product liability; Construction crane contacted overhead electrical line.
Dangerous or Defective products - Wrongful Death:
Product liability; Truck mounted conveyor contacted electrical line while loading shingles onto roof during residential construction.
Dangerous or Defective Products:
Product liability; Hip replacement - defective design of hip replacement prosthesis - glue/adhesive separation.
Dangerous or Defective Products:
Product liability; Knee replacement - mismatched components - defective design of knee replacement prosthesis and labeling system - failure to adequately warn or instruct orthopedic surgeon.
Dangerous or Defective Products - Wrongful Death:
Product liability; truck mounted crane - cement bucket became dislodged from hook while loading concrete into forms for high rise column during construction. Fatal head injuries.
Dangerous or Defective Products - Failure to Warn - Wrongful Death:
Product liability; design defect regarding combination of component chemicals comprising laminate adhesive sold to contractors for use during construction and remodeling of kitchens and counter tops, and failure to warn about combustible propensity of vapors to accumulate in house and cause explosion and/or fire when ignited by spark such as when refrigerator motor cycled.
Negligence - Warehouse - Materials Handling:
Operator driving forklift not equipped with a working back-up alarm backed over truck driver during loading operation. Orthopedic and neurological injuries to lower extremities including comminuted compound fractures.
Negligence - Unsafe Premises - Electrical Arc Induced Flash Fire:
Electrician injured in commercial customer’s motor control room while replacing a transducer and a current transformer in low voltage control panel “bucket” when he sustained burns as a result of an explosive electrical arc induced flash fire. A 480 volt live wire had been re-positioned outside the pre-manufactured track on the back of the bucket during previous work by the customer’s technicians such that it was contacted when the apprentice used the pre-drilled screw hole(s) provided by the manufacturer to fasten down the transducer. This condition constituted a hidden danger that could not be discovered in the exercise of ordinary care. Burns to face, arms, hands, abdomen and legs required skin grafts - residual disfigurement.
Automobile Negligence - Drunk Driver:
Intoxicated motorist runs red light and "t-bone's" police car. Orthopedic injuries - Officer sustained herniated disk in lumbar spine.
Automobile Negligence - Wrongful Death:
Decedent was rear-ended while driving unlicensed mini-chopper on public roadway during daylight-to-dusk end of day transition. Ambient lighting - Speeding - Inattentive driving,
Automobile Negligence - Drunk Driver:
Intoxicated motorist strikes pedestrian who is crossing the street outside of the marked street crossing lane. Orthopedic injuries - Knee injury.