$9 Billion Verdict Richard Arsenault serves as lead counsel in Actos MDL #2299. After an 11 week trial, a jury rendered a historic $9 Billion verdict against Eli Lilly and Takeda.
After a two-month trial against Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. unit, it took jurors less than one day to issue a more than $1 billion verdict in favor of six plaintiffs who were hurt by Pinnacle hip implants.
$750 Million Settlement Richard Arsenault serves as Chair of the Executive Committee for the Genetically Modified Rice MDL #1811. Seven trials produced verdicts exceeding $200 million and the litigation has now been partially resolved for $750 million.
After six days of deliberations, a Dallas jury reached a $502 million dollar verdict against Johnson & Johnson and DePuy. The verdict comes at the end of an 11-week Bellwether trial before Judge Ed Kinkeade in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
$330 million settlement which Neblett, Beard & Arsenault served as Class Counsel in a case where the defendant agreed to a $330 million dollar settlement just days before trial.
$100 million recovery for a class of persons that suffered damages due to gasoline that had high sulfur content.
$65 million settlement for a class of persons injured due to a train derailment involving the spill of hazardous materials that forced the evacuation of approximately 4,000 residents.
$45 million settlement for a class including farmers, landowners and sharecroppers who were affected by the use of ICON pesticide-coated rice seed.
$26.5 million recovery for a class of persons injured as a result of exposure to caustic bauxite and other toxic substances after a plant explosion. Neblett, Beard & Arsenault served as class counsel and worked with other attorneys to secure this recovery.
$21 million verdict for a worker injured in plant explosion, recognized in the National Law Journal as one of the nation’s top 100 Verdicts in 2001.
$8.9 million recovery for a class of persons injured as a result of exposure to sulfur and other toxic substances after a truck overturned.
$5.5 million recovery for a 28-year old worker whose pelvis and legs were crushed by an industrial pipe in a workplace accident. In addition to this recovery, the entire worker’s compensation lien of $800,000 was waived.
$5 million recovery for a class of persons injured as a result of exposure to toxic substances due to a train derailment.
$4.5 million recovery for a class of persons injured as a result of exposure to ammonia and other toxic substances from a plant during an unexpected release.
$4.5 million recovery for a retired woman who suffered brain injury when the vehicle in which she was a passenger was involved in a collision with an 18 wheeler. The case involved negligent truck drivers and also breach of the duties imposed on motor carriers by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations.
$2.6 million recovery for a woman and her spouse after she suffered severe brain damage due to the negligence of the mental health hospital where she was a patient.
$2.5 million recovery for a 46-year old father of two who was severely injured as a result of police negligence and subsequent medical malpractice.
$1.099 Million Recovery for a client who suffered multiple fractures and broken bones as a result of an automobile accident with an intoxicated driver.
$1.02 Million Recovery for a client burned as a result of an explosion of a land pipeline.
$1 Million Recovery for a client who lost use of his foot as a result of a workplace accident.
In April 2010, our client was seriously hurt in a rear-end collision on Highway 171 in Leesville, Louisiana. She was waiting in a line of traffic that had stopped, and a truck approached from behind, driven by an on-duty employee of a pest control company.
Our client, a 62-year-old mother and grandmother, had just started a new job as a cashier at a racetrack and casino. She was in training to become a cage cashier. In February of 2002, she clocked into work and was given instructions to pick up a uniform from a different part of the premises.
In May 2003, our client was driving on a busy interstate highway in Louisiana. She turned onto an off ramp, and she came to a stop while waiting for traffic to pass at the exit.
Our client—a retired, elderly gentleman—was driving on a roadway near the exit ramp for an interstate highway, traveling north using the inside lane.
Our client, a 23-year-old man, was raised in a chaotic household and had largely “fallen through the cracks.”
It started out as a typical day for Jessie, father of two. He was headed to work and planned to drop his kids off at school on the way. Everything changed, however, when another driver—not paying attention to the road—rear-ended Jessie’s truck.
Our client, a 29-year-old man, was in the passenger seat of a pickup truck hauling another pickup truck on a trailer. He was riding in the truck as part of his job, heading west on Interstate 10.An 18-wheeler, owned by a freight company, rear-ended the trailer and vehicle our client was riding in resulting in a horrible truck accident.
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