About Nicole Evans
Nicole M. Evans was born and raised in Salisbury, Maryland. She graduated from Salisbury University in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Summa Cum Laude, with minors in Economics and English. She then graduated from Villanova University School of Law in 2002. Nicole was admitted to practice in Delaware in 2002 and in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in 2004.
After law school she worked for a small general civil practice firm focused on consumer bankruptcy and real estate settlement. In 2006 she joined a larger consumer law firm and began specializing in workers' compensation and personal injury. In 2010 she moved to a boutique firm focused solely on workers' compensation and personal injury. She is a member of the Delaware Trial Lawyers Association and the Delaware State Bar Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Jacobs & Crumplar
These results are credited to Jacobs & Crumplar. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
Thomas Crumplar and co-counsel secured a $77.425 million trust for 146 survivors of clergy sexual abuse as part of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington's Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2011.
A Kent County jury awarded John Vai $63 million against defrocked priest Francis DeLuca and St. Elizabeth's Parish in Wilmington after finding both liable for childhood sexual abuse that began in the 1960s, producing what victim advocates called the largest compensatory verdict in U.S. clergy abuse history and the first time an individual parish was held accountable.
A Delaware jury returned a unanimous $9 million verdict on July 23, 2025, in the first case ever tried over asbestos-contaminated shotgun shells, holding DuPont and Remington's successor liable for the mesothelioma death of Eugene Schoepke, an 84-year-old Illinois farmer and lifelong hunter.
Delaware agreed in December 2017 to pay $7.55 million to settle a federal suit over the February 2017 uprising at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, where Lt. Steven Floyd was killed and other officers were held hostage. The plaintiffs said years of understaffing and forced overtime left the prison exposed. The money was divided among 11 claimants and the split was not made public, so the figure is an aggregate. The state denied wrongdoing.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
