Verdicts & Settlements
TAVERN'S "DRAM SHOP" DRUNK DRIVING LIABILITY FOR CATASTROPHIC INJURY OF CITIZEN
Result: Bench trial, Tulsa County, Case No. CJ-2011- 6116. $23 million verdict and judgment against the tavern. The “corporate veil” was also pierced, and the judgment entered against the individual tavern owner.
FAILURE OF DERMATOLOGIST TO TREAT SKIN CANCER.
Result: Case settled prior to trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
BIRTH INJURY CAUSED BY OBSTETRICAL AND NEONATAL PHYSICIANS’ NEGLIGENCE AND GROUP “B” STREPTOCOCCUS.
Result: Case against the Obstetricians, the Hospital, and the Neonatologists settled prior to trial. A Special Needs Trust was established to receive and manage settlement proceeds. The Bank serves as trustee. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
SUB-STANDARD CERVICAL DISKECTOMY CAUSES RIGHT ARM NEUROPATHIES
Result: We represented the client before the Social Security Administration, where she was found to be a disabled person pursuant the Social Security Act, and all SSA benefits were awarded to her. We also represented her in the District Court in her claims against the neurosurgeon whose negligence caused the lesion to the spinal cord. The medical malpractice case settled before trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
HOMEOWNERS’ INSURANCE COMPANY ACTED IN BAD FAITH WHEN DENYING HAIL DAMAGE CLAIM.
Result: Case settled prior to trial for a sum significantly more than the insurance adjustor’s original estimate. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
OBSTETRICAL FAILURE TO RESPOND TO SYMPTOMS OF FETAL DISTRESS THAT CAUSED SEVERE ACIDOSIS AND HYPOXIC BRAIN INJURY.
Result: Case settled prior to trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
PATIENT SUFFERED LEG AMPUTATION AS A RESULT OF NURSING NEGLIGENCE.
Result: The case was settled prior to trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
INJURED HEAVY-LIFT OPERATOR SUFFERS DE-GLOVING INJURY TO ONE LEG, BROKEN BONES TO OTHER LEG.
Result: All benefits allowed by the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Act were obtained for the injured worker. His workers’ compensation claim settled, after payment of all medical expenses and temporary disability payments, for $100,000. The Ohio lawsuit against the negligent actors settled on the eve of trial. The terms of the Ohio settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
FAILURE OF DERMATOLOGIST TO TREAT SKIN CANCER.
DEPUTY SHERIFF INJURED BY JUVENILE OFFENDER.
Result: Trial to jury resulted in verdict returned against the youth and his family in the sum of $30,000.
PAIN MANAGEMENT PHYSICIAN INJURES PATIENT WITH EPIDURAL STEROID INJECTION TO CERVICAL SPINE.
Result: Case settled prior to trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
WOMAN CLERICAL WORKER SEEKS SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY FOR CHRONIC NECK PAIN.
Result: Upon the re-trial before the Administrative Law Judge, a “Fully Favorable” decision was obtained. Client received $60,000 in arrearage payments and her full monthly disability checks thereafter.
FAILURE OF MINOR EMERGENCY CENTER TO COMPETENTLY OPERATE DEFIBRILLATOR CAUSED PERMANENT HYPOXIC BRAIN INJURY.
Result: The case settled prior to trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
SLIP AND FALL IN MOTEL LOBBY CAUSED BROKEN WRIST.
Result: Claim was settled without a lawsuit. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT BY TULSA CAR DEALERSHIP
Result: Case settled prior to trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
COMMON LAW WIFE SOUGHT TO ESTABLISH STATUS AS HEIR TO HER HUSBAND’S ESTATE.
Result: Judicial determination was made that client had been common law married to the decedent. Client was therefore an heir to the decedent’s estate, as permitted by the laws of intestate succession. She inherited one half of her late husband’s estate.
EMERGENCY MEDICINE PHYSICIAN KILLS PATIENT WITH WRONG DRUG
Result: The case settled prior to trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
FAILURE TO DIAGNOSE AND TREAT CANCER OF THE CERVIX.
Result: The case settled prior to trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
INJURED HOSPITAL EMPLOYEE COMPENSATED FOR ROTATOR CUFF TEAR.
Result: Client awarded all benefits allowed by the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Act, to include $60,000 for her permanent impairment.
INJURED TRUCK-STOP WAITRESS COMPENSATED FOR TORN A.C.L.
Result: Client received all benefits allowed by the Workers’ Compensation Act, to include $22,000 for her permanent impairment.
ELECTRICAL COMPANY’S ELECTRICIAN EMPLOYEE COMPENSATED FOR CHRONIC ROTATOR CUFF INJURY.
Result: The employee had two surgeries to fix his injured shoulder, and received all of the benefits allowed to him by the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Act, to include $50,000 in temporary total disability payments, and to include $55,000 in permanent partial disability payments.
DRUNK MORTICIAN SUED FOR INFLICTING SEVERE EMOTIONAL DISTRESS ON DECEDENT’S FAMILY.
Result: Case settled prior to trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
CAR DEALERSHIP DEFRAUDED ELDERLY LADY
Result: The arbitrator ordered the dealership to pay the lady $35,000 in damages, and she got to keep the truck.
PIZZA RESTAURANT MANAGER INJURED IN ON-THE-JOB CAR WRECK.
ARBY’S RESTAURANT WORKER SUFFERED CHRONIC PAIN IN BOTH FEET.
Result: All benefits allowed to her by the Workers’ Compensation Act were obtained, to include four surgeries to cure her painful condition; temporary total disability payments of about $30,000; and permanent partial disability payments of about $40,000.
ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON PERFORMS WRONG SURGERY.
Result: The case settled prior to trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
WRONGFUL DEATH LAWSUIT AGAINST ARKANSAS RADIOLOGIST AND CLINIC FOR RADIOLOGY ERROR.
Result: Case settled prior to trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
NURSING HOME NEGLIGENCE CAUSES DEATH OF RESIDENT.
Result: Case settled prior to trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
OBSTETRICIAN/GYNECOLOGIST SUED FOR PERFORMING A TUBAL LIGATION OF 18 YEAR OLD PATIENT WITHOUT HER CONSENT.
After the case was remanded back to the trial court, the client decided to proceed further with new counsel for reasons unknown to us. The ultimate disposition of the case is also unknown to us. The OBGYN defendant who lied in court to save his professional reputation later became a United States Representative from the 2nd Congressional District of Oklahoma, and thereafter a two-time United States Senator from Oklahoma.
ADMINISTRATION OF STEROIDS THAT WERE CONTRAINDICATED FOR PATIENT.
Result. Case was settled prior to trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF FEMALE TRUCK DRIVER.
Result: Case settled prior to trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
HOMEOWNERS’ INSURER BREACHED CONTRACT AND ACTED IN BAD FAITH WHEN WATER LEAK CLAIM WAS DENIED.
Result: Case settled prior to trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
WAL-MART EMPLOYEE SUFFERS TRAUMA TO LEG, SEEKS WORKERS’ COMPENSATION COURT BENEFITS AND SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY DETERMINATION.
FAILURE TO DIAGNOSE AND TREAT LUNG CANCER.
Result: The case against the radiologist and against the primary care physician settled. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement. The case against the hospital was tried to jury who returned a verdict in favor of the hospital.
BREACH OF HOMEOWNER’S FIRE INSURANCE POLICY.
Result: The case was tried to a jury, who entered a verdict in the favor of the Plaintiff for the full amount of their loss, plus costs and interest.
SLIP AND FALL OVER POORLY MARKED STEP IN DARKENED MOVIE THEATER CAUSES TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY.
Result: The case was settled shortly before trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
PASSENGER ON GREYHOUND BUS SUFFERED PERMANENT EYE INJURY WHEN ELASTIC LUGGAGE STRAP SNAPS-BACK INTO HIS EYEBALL.
Result: The case settled without a trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
IV INFILTRATION OF CALCIUM CAUSES PERMANENT NERVE INJURY
Result: The case was settled before trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.
PLASTIC SURGEON’S NURSE NEGLIGENT IN THE GIVING OF INTRA MUSCULAR INJECTION OF PHENAGRAN AND DEMEROL
Result: The case settled before trial. The terms of the settlement are protected by a confidentiality agreement.

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