Michael J. Gayan
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About Michael J. Gayan
Michael J. Gayan is a Partner and Trial Lawyer at Claggett & Sykes Trial Lawyers in Las Vegas, Nevada, specializing in mass torts and class action litigation. He has recovered over $400 million for clients throughout his career, including work on the largest class action case ever tried in Nevada.
Gayan earned his Juris Doctor cum laude from the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in 2008 and his Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Brigham Young University in 2004. He is admitted to practice in Nevada, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
His litigation experience spans state and federal courts across multiple states, as well as appellate proceedings before the Nevada Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and U.S. Supreme Court. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America for commercial litigation and construction law (2021-present) and as Super Lawyers Mountain States Rising Star (2012-2017).
Proven verdicts and settlements at Claggett & Sykes Trial Lawyers
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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.
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