The Baton Rouge, Louisiana personal injury law firm of Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C. was selected for first tier (those firms that scored within a certain percentage of the highest scoring firms) inclusion in the 2010 inaugural rankings of U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms”, in the…
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal in Guillot v. DaimlerChrysler Corp., 2008-1485 (La. App. 4 Cir. 9/24/10), upheld awards of $2,775,000 to a mother and $2,100,000 to a father for the death of their 17 day old brain damaged baby who was surgically removed from the mother’s abdomen following an…
The Louisiana Supreme Court on March 16, 2010, reversed in part and affirmed in part the matter of Brewer v. J.B. Hunt Transport, 2009-1408 c/w 2009-1428. Brewer was permanently and severely injured when his pick-up truck rear-ended and rode underneath an 18 wheeler on I-12 in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. The…
On February 16, 2010, a Southland Steel Fabricators construction worker suffered a fatal traumatic brain injury and another worker sustained minor injuries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after the construction workers fell 20 feet to the ground from a lift after it was struck by a beam. According to the National…
In an Illinois medical malpractice case involving a four year old girl who suffered brain damage at birth, LeBron v. Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, the Illinois Supreme Court held on February 4, 2010, that a 2005 medical malpractice cap on noneconcomic damages, such as pain and suffering, is unconstitutional. The cap…
Louisiana’s Traumatic Head Injury or Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund provides services to Louisiana citizens who survive traumatic head or traumatic spinal cord injuries, and who have exhausted all other governmental and private resources. Individual services are limited to $15,000 per year, with a cap of $50,000 over the individual’s…
The family of a football player who suffered a brain injury in a football game one month after suffering a concussion settled their case against La Salle University for $7,500,000. The family claimed in their lawsuit that the earlier concussion made the football player more vulnerable to brain damage from…
18 Wheeler Driver who did not Follow Training 60% at Fault for Livingston Parish, Louisiana Accident. In Brewer v. J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc., 9 So.3d 932 (La.App. 1 Cir. 2009), an 18 wheeler driver changed lanes on a multi-lane highway in Livingston Parish and was rear-ended by a following motorist.…
In Brewer v. J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc., 9 So.3d 932 (La.App. 1 Cir. 2009), an 18 wheeler driver changed lanes on a multi-lane highway in Livingston Parish and was rear-ended by a following motorist. The following motorist was awarded in excess of $13,000,000 in total damages for multiple injuries, including…