Largest verdicts in Oklahoma
8 independently-sourced personal-injury results from Oklahoma firms, largest first. Each links to the full story — the firm, the attorneys, and the record behind the number.
Pepper DeVaughn served as co-counsel for Roger Ediger, an Enid attorney and former farmer who blew the whistle on Gold Banc Corporation for inflating interest rates on federally guaranteed agricultural loans, producing a $16 million settlement that stood as the largest False Claims Act recovery in the Western District of Oklahoma at the time.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court restored the full $15 million jury award for oilfield worker Todd Beason, who lost part of an arm when a crane boom fell on him, and held the state's $350,000 cap on noneconomic damages unconstitutional.
A $15 million civil judgment was entered against the owner of five pit bulls that mauled 60-year-old Edgar Brown to death on SW 38th Street in Oklahoma City in October 2015, with Noble McIntyre representing the Brown family.
A federal jury awarded Aldin Lewis $7.8 million after a Chandi 209 Trucking semi pulled onto W. Reno Avenue without stopping at a stop sign, blocking both eastbound lanes and leaving Lewis no room to brake.
A Tulsa County jury awarded $2 million to the family of a toddler injured at a church daycare after a second church hired the same worker without disclosing she was under investigation for abusing another child.
Carr & Carr attorney Laurie Koller secured a $1.5 million settlement for an Oklahoma family after a Woodshed liquor store sold vodka to their 17-year-old son without checking his ID, and he died in a crash on the morning of his junior prom.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court held that Progressive could not deny uninsured motorist benefits to a motorcyclist who had paid for UM coverage on a separate auto policy, ruling the exclusionary language void as against public policy.
The Tenth Circuit reversed a preemption-based dismissal and reinstated state-law mislabeling claims brought by cancer treatment providers who alleged that Genentech's Herceptin vials consistently contained less than the labeled 440 mg of trastuzumab, with Matthew Sill of Fulmer Sill serving as co-lead MDL counsel for the hospital plaintiffs.