Medford Burn Injury Attorney Firm
If you’re a burn victim, you know the meaning of pain like few do. Reed Law Firm has helped many burn victims recover and obtain winning results from their trials.
In one of our earliest personal injury cases, Reed Law helped a severely burned little girl go to Federal Court against the corporate giant, Wal-Mart.
It took almost five years of fighting Wal-Mart’s insurance company and lawyers before the case headed to trial.
Shane packed everything he needed into his family’s motor home, which would serve as his mobile law office over the next three weeks. On board, he organized the trial exhibits, printer/fax, laptops, laser pointer, laminated photos, reams of pleadings, expert diagrams, and blueprints. He arrived seven days early and parked his motorhome in the Amtrak Station parking lot across from the Federal Courthouse where the Wal-Mart trial would be held.
A court clerk let him use an empty court room on the 16th floor where Shane practiced for hours in front of an empty jury box.
Having emptied his bank account and maxed out credit cards to secure top-notch experts, including a Ph.D. forensic metallurgist and medical burn specialists, Shane was ready for the final showdown against the world’s most powerful retailer.
“He lived and breathed that case,” his wife recalls.
During the five-years of litigation, Wal-Mart’s law firm tasked five lawyers to work on the case. They fought pleading-wars, questioned burn experts, enlisted opposing metallurgists, consulted economists and engineers, cross-examined products-testing UL Laboratory experts, drafted reams of pleadings, and fought in dozens of depositions and hearings.
Now the final fight was at hand.
The morning of trial arrived, and an insurance attorney met with Shane in a conference room outside the court room. “I have an offer for your client, Mr. Reed.” Wal-Mart’s insurance lawyer followed up with, “Nothing.”
The personal injury trial unfolded with colorful characters and unexpected developments. At the mid-week mark, an earthquake even shook the federal building and interrupted the trial. Shane spoke into the microphone, “Your Honor, I think that’s an earthquake.”
The judge responded, “I think you’re right, Counselor. Next question.”
And the trial rolled on. Some witnesses collapsed under the weight of cross-examination; others took the hits and stood even taller; the burned little girl’s grandmother cried on the stand, and so did her firefighter father.
Despite the continuous onslaught of cross-examinations and legal maneuvers from Wal-Mart’s team, Shane strategically presented a surprise witness during the closing arguments: a police officer and an “ear-witness”.
He finished by asking the jurors how Wal-Mart’s founder Sam Walton–if he were still alive–might view his store’s treatment of this burned girl. He answered the hypothetical for them, “He’d tell them to go back and pick that little girl up! That’s not how we treat our customers!” This final argument was a suggestion made by Shane’s wife.
Wal-Mart’s lawyers were caught off guard. And in the end, after six hours of deliberating, the jury’s unanimous verdict was $3.1 million!
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We’re experts in burn injury law, having successfully faced some of the world’s best defense lawyers and consistently emerged victorious.
Examples of some of the many other burn cases we’ve handled:
• Child burned when a stove tipped over on top of him that had hot oil on it.
• Smoke-jumper burned when his defective chainsaw spilled gas on him in a forest fire.
• Child burned at a daycare center, that didn’t tell his parents about it for two hours.
• Woman whose frying pan “melted” and flash-burned her hand down to the bone.
• Teen whose leg was burned by a muffler when trapped under a semi-truck that hit him.
Reed Law are experienced burn injury attorneys.
We can help you regain control of your life by covering medical bills, securing lost wages, and safeguarding your credit. Let our experienced accident attorneys guide you through the process and maximize your settlement. Call one of our Oregon Burn Injury Attorneys now at (541)772-3266 for a FREE initial phone consultation with an experienced burn injury lawyer.
Or click here, which will send you to an easy on-line inquiry so we can assess your case and set up a convenient time – even evenings/weekends – to discuss maximizing your settlement and making you whole, so that you’re not a victim twice.
BEWARE — POSSIBLE SHORT-DEADLINE ALERT: If the facility or individual that caused or was responsible for your burn injuries was owned/employed by any governmental entity, then you have a much shorter deadline than normal, often as little as 180 days! Consult with us to protect your rights or you could lose automatically.*