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About David Brown
David Brown did not grow up dreaming of being a lawyer, but from the moment he stood up in court and selected a jury, he knew he was exactly where he was meant to be. He majored in psychology at the University of Alabama, where he was on the President's and Dean's lists and was selected into the Jasons Senior Men's Honorary. He joined Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and served in several leadership positions. He received a scholarship to the University of Alabama School of Law and was selected for the Moot Court Board.
For many years, David worked on the defense side of civil litigation, gaining deep insight into how corporations and insurance companies assess, value, and try lawsuits. He then shifted to representing individuals. He has obtained millions of dollars for clients primarily in medical negligence and commercial vehicle accident cases and has successfully handled and tried cases across the Southeast.
He was recently part of a trial team that obtained an $8 million verdict for the family of a woman who died after a doctor ignored her symptoms. He also obtained a close to $2 million settlement in a trucking accident case. David's service extends beyond litigation, including board service at the Shades Valley YMCA and Holy Family Cristo Rey, and Parish Council service at his church.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Hare Wynn Newell & Newton
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Scott Powell of Hare Wynn Newell and Newton served as one of four co-lead class counsel in the $1.51 billion nationwide settlement against Syngenta, recovering losses for hundreds of thousands of U.S. corn growers, grain handlers, and ethanol producers whose market access to China was cut off after the company prematurely commercialized an unapproved GMO corn trait.
A class action filed in 2002 on behalf of roughly 400,000 residents across six north Alabama counties ended in a court-approved $300 million cleanup settlement requiring 3M and co-defendants to remediate PFAS contamination throughout the Tennessee River watershed.
Scott Powell of Hare Wynn Newell and Newton served as co-lead class counsel when a Kansas federal jury returned a $217.7 million compensatory verdict against Syngenta, finding the seed company negligent for commercializing its MIR162 GMO corn trait in the United States before China approved it for import, triggering a market collapse that cut off American farmers from one of their largest export buyers.
The widow of Derric Rush, a church music minister killed in a 2009 Birmingham crash by an off-duty police officer, won a default judgment against Club Volcano for serving the officer while intoxicated, after a trial on damages in 2013. The same judgment included $3.25 million against the officer, James Kendrick. The Alabama Supreme Court voided the club's judgment in 2014 because service by publication had not been shown to be justified.
A Bessemer jury returned a $15 million verdict against the owners of a BP convenience store that sold beer to an underage driver whose vehicle struck a tree, killing a 13-year-old passenger and injuring three others in May 2007.
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