Verdicts and Settlements
The following are examples of the types of cases Turner & McKenzie has tried to a jury verdict or settled:
- Civil arson case in which insurance carrier denied coverage claiming insured caused the casualty loss.
- State and Federal Civil Rights Cases against individual state actors due to negligence of state employees responsible for children in state care.
- Highway motorist killed by wheel that came off oncoming 18-wheeler
- Electrocution death of pole-line worker
- Drowning at water park
- Motorist killed when rear-ended by 18-wheeler
- Transplant surgeon’s bladder nerves accidentally severed when he underwent surgery, resulting in permanent incontinence
- 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
- 15 year-old boy killed when improperly lighted 18-wheeler backed up while turning off highway
- Catastrophic injuries to student caused by e-coli outbreak/ food poisoning at a university
- Severe brain damage and neurological injuries caused by leaking toxic toluene fumes
- 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
- Death of patient caused by physician's failure to send malignant mole specimen to lab; subsequent forgery of lab report by the physician
- Shooting of hospital employee in parking lot
- False imprisonment, battery, and invasion of privacy when company security guards conducted body cavity search of female employee
- Death of oil field worker
- Catastrophic injuries to construction worker in elevator shaft accident
- Death of woman caused by physician's failure to diagnose cervical cancer
- 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
- Death of woman caused by physician's failure to diagnose malignant lung tumor
- Failure of interlocking intramedullary tibia nail medical device
- Severe burns and disfigurement caused by fire at a nightclub
- Numerous suits against homeowners/auto/life insurance companies for wrongful denial of claims
- Numerous tractor-trailer and auto collisions
- Numerous Family Law and Adoption Cases
- Numerous Criminal Law Cases including both felonies and misdemeanors
