Personal Injury Attorneys in Minnesota

A Ramsey County jury awarded $65.5 million to Anna Jean Houghton Carley, a 37-year-old mother of three diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma after childhood exposure to Johnson and Johnson Baby Powder, in what attorneys described as the largest asbestos verdict in Minnesota history.

James Schwebel represented 34 victims in a three-year lawsuit against engineering firm URS Corp, whose negligent inspection of the Minneapolis I-35W bridge preceded its August 2007 collapse, killing 13 people and injuring 145 others.

Ben Crump, with co-counsel Antonio Romanucci and L. Chris Stewart, negotiated a $27 million settlement between the family of George Floyd and the City of Minneapolis, announced by the family's lawyers as the largest pretrial settlement of a civil rights wrongful-death claim in American history. The city council approved the payment unanimously in March 2021, while jury selection in Derek Chauvin's murder trial was underway blocks away.

A six-week Anoka County trial ended with a $24 million jury verdict against BNSF Railway after four young people died at a malfunctioning Ferry Street grade crossing in September 2003.