Wyoming Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements
9 independently-sourced personal injury results from Wyoming firms, largest first. Filter by practice area or result type. Each links to the full story, the firm, the attorneys, and the record behind the number.
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After a seven-day bench trial in Sublette County, a Wyoming district court awarded APMTG Helium $35,199,276.79 against Denbury Onshore for failing to deliver helium under a long-term supply contract, and the Wyoming Supreme Court upheld the award in December 2020.
A federal jury in Wyoming awarded Amber Lompe $28.2 million after carbon monoxide from a faulty furnace caused permanent brain injury at her Casper apartment, a verdict that stood as one of the largest personal-injury awards in Wyoming history before the Tenth Circuit reduced the punitive component on due-process grounds.
A Green River jury returned a $10.165 million verdict for a Rock Springs man whose legs were amputated after Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County and its physician failed to recognize and treat an acute vascular emergency.
A Wyoming jury awarded $22 million after coal miner Les Butts was left paraplegic when a boulder crushed his vehicle at Black Thunder Mine; the Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed a $9.46 million judgment against his supervisors in June 2008.
A Wyoming federal jury returned an $8 million verdict against SmithKline Beecham after finding that Paxil caused a Gillette man to kill three family members and himself within 48 hours of taking the drug.
R. Michael Shickich represented Worland nurse Debbie Evans in a federal qui tam action against Banner Health (formerly Lutheran Health Systems), yielding a $6.1 million federal settlement for fraudulent Medicare home health billing across Wyoming facilities.
A Sweetwater County jury returned a $5.19 million verdict for oilfield worker Blake Horr after a rubber well component, ejected by trapped pressure that Merit Energy's supervisor failed to relieve, shattered bones and severed nerves in his left hand and arm during a 2011 work-over operation in Bairoil, Wyoming.
Jim Fitzgerald won a $1.5 million jury verdict for the family of a construction worker killed when his 1966 Caterpillar 988 wheel loader rolled over without rollover protection, a judgment the Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed in full.
Jim and Michael Fitzgerald secured a Wyoming Supreme Court ruling that the state's governmental-immunity waiver covers ordinary negligence claims against state healthcare facilities, allowing a family's civil suit to proceed after their daughter was sexually assaulted by a hospital employee.