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About David Olesky
David Olesky spent 30 years defending health care providers and hospital systems in medical malpractice cases before joining Miller Weisbrod Olesky to represent victims and their families. Prior to joining the firm, he served as Vice Chair of the Health Care Professional Liability practice at an Am Law 100 firm. He holds a J.D. from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law (1992) and a B.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin (1989). He is admitted to the Texas bar and has been selected for Texas Super Lawyers from 2009 to 2019 and for Best Lawyers in Dallas by D Magazine from 2017 to 2022. At Miller Weisbrod Olesky he leads the National Birth Injury and Medical Negligence practice alongside Les Weisbrod.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Miller Weisbrod Olesky
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A Dallas County jury returned a $26.5 million verdict for Fernando Canales, a construction decker left paraplegic after a two-story fall, finding that general contractor RJC Midwest bore full responsibility for failing to train subcontractors on the proper use of fall-protection equipment.
A King County jury awarded $16.9 million to the family of David Oltman, killed when PenAir Flight 3296 overran the runway at Tom Madsen Airport in Unalaska, Alaska, after a maintenance contractor cross-wired the aircraft's antiskid brake system.
In May 2006 a Dallas jury voted 11-1 that Medical Center of McKinney, an HCA hospital, was liable after a nasogastric tube perforated the esophagus of patient Tom Ivey following stomach surgery in early 2002. The jury placed the fault on the hospital's nurses and found the surgeon neither negligent nor liable. It awarded Mr. Ivey and his wife, Sandra, $9,944,406. The hospital said it would appeal, and we found no reported appellate decision.
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