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Louisville, Ky 40059

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$2.5 Million Personal Injury Verdict

	November 2008 The leader of the Kentucky-based Imperial Klans of America and a former Klansman must pay $2.5million in damages for the beating of a minority teenager at a county fair that left him with permanent injuries.

$2.05 Million Medical Malpractice Settlement

	September 2008 The Plaintiff was injured by an allegedly defective medical device product and settled with the manufacturer of the device and the hospital where the injury occurred for a total settlement of $2,050,000.

$16 Million Legal Malpractice/Living Trust Scam Settlement

	July, 2008 A class-action lawsuit settled in Jefferson Circuit Court allows as many as 24,000 seniors across the country who have purchased annuities from American Equity Investment Life Insurance Co. to make claims for refunds totaling more than $16 million. The suit claims that after the victims purchased the living trusts, agents of insurance and marketing companies, pretending to be from a Kentucky law firm, approached the plaintiffs and encouraged them to sell their current investments and purchase deferred annuities from American Equity. As part of the settlement, any member of the class age 79 or older when they purchased a deferred annuity from American Equity can submit a claim form to withdraw up to 25 percent of the policy value for each of the next four years, penalty-free.

$950,000 Legal Malpractice Settlement

	March 2007 Arising out of negligent handling of Client’s medical malpractice claim. Case was settled during trial.

$2.1 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

	October 2006 Arising out of the failure to diagnose and treat a stroke patient.

$1.5 Million Sexual Abuse Settlement

	August 2006 Arising out of sexual and physical abuse of 45 children, now adults, at an orphanage between the late 1940’s through 1984. Only settlement arising out of sexual abuse perpetrated by nuns at an orphanage in the United States.

$450,000 Wrongful Use of Civil Proceedings Verdict

	May 2006 Arising out of the filing and prosecution of a frivolous medical malpractice suit against an orthopedic surgeon. Largest such verdict in Kentucky.

$2.9 Million Automobile Accident Verdict

	September 2005 Arising out of the “mild” traumatic brain injury suffered by a lawyer in a rear-end collision. Insurance company for lawyer refused to pay UIM claim and argued he was malingering. Largest “mild” traumatic brain injury verdict in Kentucky.

$1.4 Million Products Liability Settlement

	April 2005 Arising out of house fire related death caused by a defect in a cordless phone.

$25.7 Million Sexual Abuse Class Action Settlement

	May 2003 Arising out of sexual abuse of 243 children, now adults, while attending Catholic churches and schools in the Louisville, Kentucky Archdiocese. At the time of the settlement, this was the largest amount ever paid by an archdiocese out of their own pocket; no insurance proceeds were available.

$3 Million Medical Malpractice Settlement

	December 2000 Arising out of failure to diagnose kidney cancer. Case was settled during jury deliberations.

$2.35 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

	December 1999 Arising out of emergency room physician’s failure to properly treat carbon monoxide poisoning.

$1.5 Million Insurance Bad Faith Settlement

	May 1999 Arising out of automobile insurance carrier’s violation of the Kentucky Unfair Claims Practice Act.

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Legal malpractice law
Medical malpractice law
Auto accident cases
Insurance bad faith law
Unsafe product litigation
Product liability
Personal injury law
Traumatic brain injury cases
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