About Andrew LaPorta
Andrew LaPorta is an attorney at Hepworth Holzer who began his career at some of Idaho's premier insurance defense firms, representing physicians and other professionals in malpractice claims and representing insurance companies sued for failing to honor their coverage obligations. That experience shaped his understanding of how insurers evaluate claims and led him to switch sides to represent injured individuals. He holds a B.S. from Brigham Young University (2011) and a J.D. from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah (2014), where his final-year work focused on medical malpractice doctrine in Idaho and Utah.
He holds an AV Preeminent peer-review rating from Martindale-Hubbell. In his first year of practice, he successfully reversed a half-million-dollar judgment wrongfully entered against his client and recovered attorney's fees on appeal. He is a member of the Idaho Trial Lawyers Association, the Idaho State Bar (Litigation and Health Law sections), and the Utah State Bar.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Hepworth Holzer, LLP
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BSR Ventures, doing business as Advanced Heating and Cooling, agreed to a $5 million judgment after its employee, who had seven prior DUI convictions including two felonies, crossed the center line on U.S. 93 and killed Cheryl Miller in a head-on crash.
A federal jury awarded Kevin Marchand $4.2 million after emergency room physicians at Mercy Medical Center removed his cervical collar following an industrial accident, missing a cervical spine fracture that left him permanently paralyzed.
A Boise jury awarded more than $1.66 million to a commercial tenant who suffered permanent brain damage after falling on improperly installed stairs, a verdict affirmed on appeal by the Idaho Supreme Court.
A passenger was seriously hurt when the driver left an Idaho road at high speed and rolled the car two or three times. The driver conceded sole liability, and the district court, sitting without a jury, found five broken ribs and permanent compression fractures at five levels of the thoracic spine. It entered judgment for $165,228.84, and the Idaho Supreme Court affirmed in 1990.
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