Landry & Swarr, L.L.C.

A 6-year-old girl was killed in the parking lot of a Slidell Catholic school. The school's after-school Run Club sent children as young as six along a route that crossed the afternoon carpool lane while cars were moving. Her 10-year-old brother watched it happen.

William Oddo Jr., a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office mechanic, died of mesothelioma in 2011 after twenty-four years of brake work on the department's Ford vehicles. A New Orleans jury found for his widow and two sons in late 2012, and the trial court entered judgment of $4,401,393.15 in January 2013 against Ford Motor Company and Southern Talc Company. The Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal reversed the judgment against Southern Talc in August 2015, holding the jury's answers about that defendant irreconcilable and finding no proof of above-background exposure from the talc. It affirmed Ford's liability and left Ford's own damages untouched, so a judgment of $1,825,278.62 stood against Ford. The Louisiana Supreme Court denied Ford's writ application that November.

James Leoma Gaddy worked as a chemical engineer at Ethyl Corporation's Baton Rouge plant from 1955 until about 1960, after earlier summer work at an International Paper mill. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in July 2018 and died before his case reached trial, and his children continued the suit as his statutory survivors. A federal jury in New Orleans found Ethyl negligent and strictly liable in November 2019, awarding $7,500,000 in general damages plus $250,661.45 in medical expenses, and the judgment entered against Ethyl was one third of that total after credit for the shares of the settling defendants. The district court found the general damages excessive and remitted them to $3,000,000, bringing the award to $3,250,661.45, of which Ethyl's one-third share is $1,083,553.82. The Fifth Circuit affirmed the judgment in full in December 2020.