Oilfield Death Case
Oct 02, 2013OUTCOME: Confidential Seven Figure Settlement
My co-founder Josh Fogelman and I worked tirelessly on a case that many lawyers said was impossible. We represented the family of a man who died after working non-stop for nearly 7 days. One witness te ... stified that the man slept a total of 8 hours that whole week. Under Texas law, we had to prove something called gross negligence, which has been interpreted so strictly by Texas courts that many scholars suggest it is practically murder. The company hired two very good law firms to defend the case. After almost 10,000 pages of paper discovery, dozens of depositions, and several hearings, we had our smoking gun—the company was training its drivers to cheat the federal and state DOT logs in an *almost* undetectable way. The company paid the family, and the man’s two little girls have college funds (and more) waiting for them as a result.
