Trial Practice

Will’s energy client had a driver who was driving a company vehicle while incredibly impaired at three times the legal B.A.C. limit with additional positive findings for cocaine. The driver ran a red light and broadsided Plaintiff’s truck in excess of 50 mph, totaling both vehicles. Plaintiff had extensive medical interventions including two spinal fusions and the permanent placement of a spinal cord stimulator. Total admissible medical exceeded $1,500,000. The jury was asked to award more than $26,500,000 in actual damages. Will defended the case with the techniques he taught the insurance industry with and was able to convince a jury to award $900,000 – well within the primary insurance limit on an insurance tower of $6,000,000.

Will’s energy client had a driver who was driving a company vehicle and who admitted he was fatigued from the nature of shift work and fell asleep, crossing the center line of the highway. The driver crashed into the Plaintiff’s trailer causing the gooseneck attachment to completely shear off from the attachment which induced Plaintiff’s loss of control. The Plaintiff experienced several significant frontal, side, and rear impacts. Both vehicles were totaled. Plaintiff had a lumbar and cervical fusion. Total past admissible medical exceeded $750,000. Total future medical exceeded $2,000,000. The jury was asked to award $45,000,000 – $15,000,000 in actual damages and $30,000,000 in punitive damages. Using the trial theories he taught the industry on deferred medical schemes and tactics in Voir Dire, Will was able to convince a jury to award literally zero for all categories of damages.

Will represented an on-site safety contractor at an energy substation that involved the unfortunate electrocution death of a worker. After the end of evidence and right before closing, Will’s client was presented a favorable settlement opportunity that was accepted by the insurer. The case proceeded to trial against the remaining Defendants. When counsel for the remaining Defendants polled the jury after the verdict what they thought when Will’s client was not present for closing argument, one of the jurors said: “We thought he was doing so good, he just decided not to come back.”

Will represented a commercial truck driver and his employer in a rear-end crash. The driver caused the crash because he was distracted after a fire broke out in his cab from the ignition of his breakfast burrito he was cooking while driving using a makeshift constructed hotplate on the passenger seat. The driver also tested positive for THC and was on his cell phone. Plaintiff received a cervical fusion where the necessity of the surgery was not contested by the defense doctor. Past medical exceeded $250,000. After Will’s closing argument, which focused heavily on injury causation and witness bias – again using what he has taught the industry – the jury awarded only $130,000. This might be the only “cooking while driving” in the state’s history.