Verdicts and Settlements
The following are examples of the types of cases that Randy has tried to a verdict or settled:
- $6.1 million awarded to wildlife rescuer in internet defamation trial, upheld by Supreme Court
- HOA agreed to settle lawsuit brought under Fair Housing Act, allow homeowners to keep emotional support pigs in home, and pay homeowners’ attorney’s fees.
- Jury found animal rights protestors not guilty of obstructing a public passageway in criminal trespass
- Criminal theft charges against woman who rescued tethered dog dismissed
- A preacher and his wife who adopted a dog that had been snatched from a yard are ordered by a jury to return the dog to her owner.
- Defamation lawsuit against animal rights activist dismissed.
- Highway motorist killed by wheel that came off oncoming 18-wheeler and went through windshield
- Electrocution death of utility pole-line worker
- $1 million uninsured motorist benefits awarded in automobile accident claim
- Motorcyclist killed by 18-wheeler that pulled out of a private drive onto highway
- Drowning at water park
- $632,000—dog off leash in city park ran in front of bicyclist causing her to crash and sustain severe arm fracture
- $2.4 million—warehouse worker’s leg amputated after she was struck by forklift; court held that employer was not immune under Texas Workers Compensation Act
- Social workers placed 5-year-old girl into foster care of a man they knew was a convicted sex offender who then raped her over several years
- $2.0 million—death of patient caused by physician’s failure to send malignant mole specimen to lab; physician forged the lab report
- Defectively designed automobile gas tank exploded after traffic accident, burning occupants to death
- $300,000 policy limit paid by homeowners insurance in dog bite case
- Construction worker fell to his death when a rung detached from a defective ladder at a job site
- Motorist killed when rear-ended by 18-wheeler
- Transplant surgeon’s bladder nerves accidentally severed when he underwent surgery, resulting in permanent incontinence
- 15-year-old boy killed when improperly lighted 18-wheeler backed up while maneuvering to turn off highway
- $250,000—food poisoning at a university cheerleading camp; Court of Appeals upheld trial court ruling that state university was not immune under Texas Tort Claims Act.
- Severe brain damage and neurological injuries caused by leaking toxic toluene fumes
- Worker crushed in forklift rollover accident
- Catastrophic injuries caused by 18-wheeler that made illegal turn in front of oncoming vehicle
- Four children and their father killed in auto collision
- Bar continued serving alcohol to intoxicated person who then caused fatal motor vehicle collision
- Fatality at railroad crossing
- Hospital accidentally infected patient with hepatitis C virus
- Death of 28-year-old woman caused by physician’s repeated failure to send PAP smear slides to lab which would have revealed cervical cancer
- Fatal head-on auto collision
- Factory worker’s leg amputated by machine that had no kill switch
- Shooting of hospital employee in parking lot—premises liability
- False imprisonment, battery, and invasion of privacy when company security guards conducted body cavity search of female employee
- Death of worker in oil field accident
- Catastrophic injuries to construction worker in elevator shaft accident
- Death of woman caused by physician’s failure to diagnose cervical cancer
- Warehouse worker severely injured in industrial conveyor belt accident
- Woman at water park permanently disabled when she hit the bottom of the pool at the end of a water slide
- Severe injuries to circus protester when assaulted by off-duty policeman
- Catastrophic injuries to motorcyclist caused by lack of signs warning that traffic lane ended and curb across lane
- Life insurance company forged changes in decedent’s original application for insurance in order to fraudulently deny coverage
- Severe burns and disfigurement in industrial accident
- Family severely poisoned by salmonella-contaminated food at a restaurant
- Death of woman caused by physician’s failure to diagnose malignant lung tumor
- Failure of interlocking intramedullary tibia nail medical device
- Nurse accidentally amputated two-week-old baby’s index finger with scissors while removing bandage
- Sexual harassment suit against Fortune 100 corporation for failing to stop sexual harassment of female employee
- Homeowner’s insurance company refused to pay when house burned down, claiming arson by homeowner
- Man electrocuted by exposed electrical wires
- Fifteen-year-old girl’s fingers amputated in a watercraft accident
- Claim against auto insurance company when car passenger shot a child in drive-by shooting
- Suit against child-placement agency after boy in foster home was killed by foster father
- Severe burns and disfigurement caused by fire at a nightclub
- Numerous suits against homeowners/auto/life insurance companies for wrongful denial of claims
- Numerous 18-wheeler and auto collisions