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General Liability Litigation

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Attorneys in our general liability litigation practice group have extensive experience with legal and business issues including personal injury, property damage, premises liability and economic loss. Representing insurance companies, private businesses, and governmental entities, our years of experience gained through a defense-directed practice allow us to quickly and correctly analyze issues, risks, and exposures for litigation. We anticipate and vigorously defend claims for damages, including class actions and multi-party, multi-jurisdictional matters. Whether in discovery, deposition, or trial, we aggressively protect our clients' interests by putting in the necessary preparation, asking hard questions, and revealing the weaknesses in our opponent's position.

CASE RESULTS DEPEND UPON A VARIETY OF FACTORS UNIQUE TO EACH CASE. CASE RESULTS DO NOT GUARANTEE OR PREDICT A SIMILAR RESULT IN ANY FUTURE CASE.
  • Apr 26, 2023
    Dallas, TX

    On April 26, 2023, a jury in Dallas County found Bigge Crane and Rigging Co. was not negligent after a construction crane owned by Bigge collapsed on the Elan City Lights Apartments in Old East Dallas and killed Kiersten Smith, a 29-year-old woman. The jury instead found that liability rested with Greystar Development & Construction, LP, Greystar Development & Construction, LP – Gabriella Tower Contractor Series, and Gabriella Tower, LLC,, and ordered those defendants to pay $860 million to the family of the victim.

  • Feb 18, 2021
    Des Moines, IA

    On February 18, 2021, an Iowa federal court jury rendered a defense verdict for Bowman and Brooke client, Jo-Ann Stores, Inc. The case stemmed from a 2018 injury incident in a Jo-Ann Fabric and Crafts Store in Clive, Iowa, near Des Moines. Plaintiff claimed negligence and loss of consortium, asking the jury for $1.4 million. The jury deliberated for approximately one and a half hours and came back with a unanimous defense verdict. 

  • Jun 29, 2017
    Minneapolis, MN
  • Feb 22, 2016
    Bismark, ND
  • Aug 31, 2013
    Minnesota
    A plaintiff claimed that the defendant, a long-term care facility, was negligent in the wound care, fall prevention measures and pain management of one of its residents. The resident in question had extensive wounds to both legs, requiring daily dressing changes, and experienced six falls in the first two and a half months of his residency.
  • May 8, 2020
    Legal Alert

    There is no doubt that one of the hardest hit populations by COVID-19 is the elderly residing in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities. Nursing facilities are especially vulnerable to coronavirus outbreaks, given the susceptibility of their elderly residents to complications from COVID-19 and because residents often live in close quarters, making social distancing a difficult if not nearly impossible task in some circumstances.

  • January 18, 2019
    Articles
    On January 8, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc. rejecting the notion that a court can determine the issue of arbitrability in cases where parties demonstrated a clear and unmistakable intent in their arbitration agreements to have issues of arbitrability determined by an arbitrator rather than by the court.
  • August 7, 2014
    Legal Alert
    On August 6, 2014, the Minnesota Supreme Court decided to follow Minnesota’s traditional pleading standard. In doing so, it rejected the federal court’s more stringent Iqbal/Twombly pleading requirement that applies a “plausibility” standard to claims. Minnesota’s traditional standard is more lenient. It allows a claim to survive a motion to dismiss if it is possible, on any evidence which might be produced, consistent with the pleader’s theory, to grant the relief requested.
  • January 2014
    News

    Mike Madokoro, co-managing partner of Bowman and Brooke’s Los Angeles office, has been selected to the Lawyers of Color Third Annual Power List.

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