Fitzgerald Law Firm
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The Fitzgerald Law Firm is a Cheyenne, Wyoming personal injury and wrongful death practice founded in 1982, focusing exclusively on catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, including medical malpractice, vehicular accidents, product liability, workplace accidents, and oil field injuries. The firm holds Wyoming Supreme Court records for the largest verdicts for personal injury and wrongful death ever upheld on appeal, and has been involved in nearly half of all million-dollar-plus verdicts in Wyoming history.
Notable results
A Wyoming jury awarded $22 million after coal miner Les Butts was left paraplegic when a boulder crushed his vehicle at Black Thunder Mine; the Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed a $9.46 million judgment against his supervisors in June 2008.
A Wyoming federal jury returned an $8 million verdict against SmithKline Beecham after finding that Paxil caused a Gillette man to kill three family members and himself within 48 hours of taking the drug.
Jim Fitzgerald won a $1.5 million jury verdict for the family of a construction worker killed when his 1966 Caterpillar 988 wheel loader rolled over without rollover protection, a judgment the Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed in full.
Jim and Michael Fitzgerald secured a Wyoming Supreme Court ruling that the state's governmental-immunity waiver covers ordinary negligence claims against state healthcare facilities, allowing a family's civil suit to proceed after their daughter was sexually assaulted by a hospital employee.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
