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About Ben Lavoie
Ben Lavoie brings more than two decades of civil litigation experience to Meshbesher and Spence. He concentrates on personal injury, medical malpractice, workers' compensation, FELA and FRSA railroad claims, and Section 1983 civil rights cases. Before law school he worked as a bartender and an English teacher abroad, experience he credits with helping him communicate legal concepts clearly to clients and juries. He holds a B.A. from the University of Minnesota (2000) and a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology (2004). He has been repeatedly named a Minnesota Super Lawyer and has secured recoveries including a $4 million medical malpractice result and a $2.5 million wrongful death settlement.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Meshbesher & Spence
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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.
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