About Meshbesher & Spence
Meshbesher and Spence is a personal injury law firm founded in Minneapolis in 1961, representing injured individuals and families across Minnesota from four offices. The firm handles car and truck accidents, medical malpractice, workers' compensation, product liability, and wrongful death, including court-appointed leadership in major pharmaceutical and medical device MDL proceedings.
Proven verdicts and settlements won by Meshbesher & Spence
A Dakota County jury awarded Jeffrey Wu and his wife $18.4 million after his 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee's defective monostable gear shifter caused a rollaway that crushed his left leg and required amputation.
Thirteen years after Minneapolis florist Robert Nachtsheim was shot and killed in an officially unsolved homicide, a Hennepin County jury found businessman Norman Wartnick civilly liable and awarded his widow $2,350,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, a verdict the Minnesota Court of Appeals affirmed in 1987.
Dakota County paid $2.25 million to settle a wrongful death suit brought by Tory Hart after county child protection workers recommended reuniting his six-year-old son with the mother, who fatally shot the child ten days after a court terminated its jurisdiction.
A Becker County jury awarded $750,000 against WE Fest organizers and their security contractor after finding both negligent for hiring a campground attendant with a prior felony sex-offense conviction who assaulted a female camper in 2006.
A Dane County jury awarded Leonard Pozner $450,000 against conspiracy author James Fetzer after ruling that Fetzer's book falsely accused Pozner of forging his son's death certificate following the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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