Claggett & Sykes Trial Lawyers

A Utah judge entered a $951 million default judgment against Steward Health Care after newly trained nurses, an excessive Pitocin drip, and a delayed C-section at Jordan Valley Medical Center left a newborn permanently brain damaged.

A Rio Arriba County jury held Acadia Healthcare and its New Mexico foster care subsidiaries responsible for placing an 8-year-old girl with a foster father who raped her repeatedly, returning one of the largest single-plaintiff sexual abuse verdicts in the country.

A 20-year-old painter suffered a traumatic brain injury in a 2021 ladder fall in Utah. A Denver jury found his workers' compensation carrier, NorGUARD Insurance, knowingly and unreasonably delayed and denied his care, including inpatient rehabilitation. It awarded $145.26 million, made up of $85.26 million in compensatory and $60 million in punitive damages.

A retrial jury in Utah's Fourth District Court awarded $81 million against Beacon Roofing Supply after one of its trucks struck and killed a 12-year-old boy who was crossing legally in a marked crosswalk.

A Clark County jury found Amy Geiler's losses worth just under $47 million after hospital doctors raised her dangerously low blood sodium too quickly, causing permanent brainstem damage and locked-in syndrome.

A Clark County jury returned $38.8 million against Republic Services after one of its garbage trucks turned through a marked crosswalk and struck and killed an 11-year-old girl who was crossing with the walk signal.

In February 2018 a Clark County jury awarded $20 million, split evenly between compensatory and punitive damages, against the Lamplight Village at Centennial Springs homeowners association. A 15-year-old boy had suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2013 when a metal crossbar on a community swing set broke and struck his head. Jurors found the association failed to inspect and maintain the playground equipment. The association appealed, but the Nevada Supreme Court dismissed the appeals by stipulation in 2020 and the verdict stood.

A Las Vegas jury awarded bicyclist Thunder Roybal more than $14.1 million after an SUV driven for the Sapphire Gentleman's Club struck and ran him over, a verdict the Nevada Supreme Court later affirmed in full.

A Clark County jury held Lowe's responsible after Kelly Hendrickson slipped on liquid draining from store planters, fractured her skull, and permanently lost her senses of taste and smell.

Sean Claggett asked a Las Vegas jury for up to $63 million for Elisa Sales, who suffered permanent brain damage after monitor alarms were silenced and resuscitation was delayed during a pacemaker procedure, and the hospital settled for a confidential sum while the jury deliberated.