Hansen v. IHC
Dec 16, 2015OUTCOME: Settlement
This was a medical negligence case arising out of a series of negligent surgical procedures performed on our client, who suffered permanent nerve damage.
Salt Lake City, UT
Personal injury Lawyer at Salt Lake City, UT
Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Defective and Dangerous Products ... +3 more
OUTCOME: Settlement
This was a medical negligence case arising out of a series of negligent surgical procedures performed on our client, who suffered permanent nerve damage.
OUTCOME: Settlement
An employee of a clinical boarding school for troubled boys molested several boys. The school had hired the employee after once terminating him for inappropriate contact with children, and it knew tha ... t the employee was not authorized by the State of Utah to have one-on-one access to children. We represented several victims in this action against the school, some of its employees and its principals.
OUTCOME: $4,000,000 jury verdict
The owner of a farming business hired a day laborer to dig post holes in rural Alabama using an auger attached to a tractor. The auger was missing key safety components, including shields over connect ... ion bolts, and stabilizing blocks to keep the auger steady during digging operations. Our client, the day laborer, was tasked with holding the auger steady as it dug post holes. The auger wobbled from side to side because the stabilizing blocks were missing, and the unshielded bolt grabbed our client's clothing and wrapped him around the auger, causing serious injuries.
OUTCOME: $3,528,063 jury verdict
This was a products liability case involving a rock crushing machine in use at a gravel pit. A piece of uncrushable metal became stuck in the jaws of the crusher, but the crusher's safety device, whic ... h should have released the pressure on the jaws and allowed the metal object to drop out of the crusher, did not work. Our client was seriously injured when the metal object suddenly exploded from the crusher jaws and slammed into his jaw, causing serious facial injuries and a traumatic brain injury.
OUTCOME: Largest survivor settlement
This was an airplane crash in San Francisco, in which our client sustained serious injuries.
OUTCOME: $3,069,152 jury verdict
This was a trucking collision involving a truck driver operating a double belly dump tractor trailer combination while under the influence of methamphetamine. Our clients' husband and father was kille ... d when the truck driver lost control of his rig and slammed into the decedent's vehicle.
OUTCOME: $750,000 jury verdict
This was a products liability case involving a medical device known as a pain pump, which infused anesthetic medication into the body. The defendant manufacturer had marketed the device for use in sho ... ulder joints without FDA approval to do so, and without any safety testing to know if use in the shoulder joint was safe. Our client had a pain pump placed in his shoulder following surgery and went on to develop severe chondrolysis of the shoulder, requiring additional surgeries and other treatment.