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About Laurie Pierce
Laurie Pierce draws on extensive experience in state and federal courts, with a focus on complex medical malpractice claims. She spent many years defending health care providers and hospital systems before joining David Olesky in the National Birth Injury and Medical Negligence practice at Miller Weisbrod Olesky. Her background in commercial litigation adds depth to her health care practice.
She earned her J.D. cum laude from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in 1992, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and served on the Journal of Air Law and Commerce. She also holds a B.S. cum laude from Miami University in Ohio (1982). She was admitted to the Texas bar in 1992.
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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