Murphy Falcon & Murphy

A Baltimore jury awarded Catonsville businessman Scott Steele $276 million after finding that First Union National Bank defrauded his settlement-services company and used his proprietary technology to build a competing business projected to generate $2.4 billion in profits.

William H. Murphy Jr. co-counseled the $185 million settlement against Ernst and Young, the largest single-defendant civil settlement in Maryland history at the time, after the accounting firm provided incompetent turnaround advice that accelerated Merry-Go-Round Enterprises into liquidation.

Hassan Murphy co-led the class action against Constellation Energy after fly ash from a coal plant fouled private drinking wells in a Gambrills neighborhood, producing a $54 million package that connected affected homes to public water and established a $9.5 million resident trust fund.

William H. Murphy Jr. won a $44 million Baltimore jury verdict after a police officer threw handcuffed Albert Mosley headfirst into a concrete jail cell wall, rendering him a permanent quadriplegic; the city refused to pay and the case ultimately settled for $1 million.

Murphy Falcon and Murphy served as lead class counsel in a $37 million settlement on behalf of 273 patients who underwent medically unnecessary cardiac stent procedures performed by Dr. Mark Midei at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Maryland.

After a 13-week trial, a Baltimore City jury awarded $34.33 million to 20 Ruth's Chris Steakhouse workers and three of their spouses after the workers suffered permanent brain damage when carbon monoxide from Pier Five Hotel's boiler system flooded their workplace over several months in early 2008.