About Marty Young
Marty Young is a partner at Goudarzi & Young. He received his B.A. (1995) and J.D. (1998) from Texas Tech University, and is admitted to practice in the state courts of Texas and the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas. His practice is devoted solely to the representation of victims in serious injury and wrongful death cases.
Proven verdicts and settlements
On February 13, 2016, 21-year-old Riley McPherson was killed on U.S. 271 near Gilmer, Texas, when his van struck the side of a Jefferson Trucking flatbed tractor-trailer that was blocking all four lanes of the highway while its driver, on hour 17 of a run home from Ohio, tried to back it into a private driveway. McPherson's parents, Eddie McPherson and Karen Pearson, sued Jefferson Trucking, driver Eric Wayne Jefferson, and Timothy Wayne Jefferson in the 115th District Court of Upshur County. On November 8, 2018, a jury apportioned 65 percent fault to Eric Jefferson, 20 percent to Jefferson Trucking, 10 percent to Timothy Jefferson, and 5 percent to McPherson, and set damages at $260 million, which the comparative-fault finding reduced to $247 million. The defendants appealed, then voluntarily dismissed their own appeal, leaving the trial court judgment intact.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
