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About Scott A. Powell
Scott Powell came to Hare Wynn in 1986 after establishing a reputation as a trial lawyer with another firm. Since then, his diverse practice has taken him throughout the United States, handling litigation under the False Claims Act for qui tam plaintiffs, class action litigation, and complex commercial litigation. He was appointed co-lead plaintiff counsel in the In re Syngenta AG MIR 162 Corn Litigation (MDL 2591), a class action that resulted in a verdict of nearly $218 million for the Kansas Corn Farmer Class.
He also served as lead counsel in Schafer v. Bayer Cropscience, where a jury returned a verdict of more than $48 million for 11 rice-farming families, and he was one of the lead counsel in negotiations that produced a $750,000,000 settlement with Bayer Cropscience for more than 3,000 rice farmers. Scott served as co-lead counsel in oil royalty litigation in eastern Texas that, at the time of its resolution, represented the highest recovery on behalf of the United States in the history of the False Claims Act. He was also appointed to the plaintiff steering committee in re Biomet M2a Magnum Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation (MDL 2391).
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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.
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.
In early 2014, Biomet agreed to pay at least $56 million to settle about 1,000 federal lawsuits over its M2a 38 and M2a Magnum metal-on-metal hip implants, consolidated in the Northern District of Indiana. Qualifying patients who had the device revised received a base award of $200,000, adjusted by individual factors. Thomas Anapol was court-appointed Co-Lead Counsel with W. Mark Lanier and signed the agreement for the Plaintiffs' Executive Committee. The figure covers many unrelated plaintiffs, is a reported minimum rather than a final total, and is not itemized by person.
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