Owen, Owen & Smith, PLLC
Proven VerdictsAbout Owen, Owen & Smith, PLLC
Owen, Owen & Smith, PLLC is a Gulfport, Mississippi trial firm established in 1981 and known as one of the premier litigation firms of southern Mississippi. It is the successor to Owen, Galloway & Myers, PLLC and to Owen and Owen, PLLC, taking its present name after Joe Sam Owen and Mitchell L. Owen partnered with former Mississippi Court of Appeals Judge Joel Smith. The firm represents plaintiffs in personal injury, wrongful death, car and truck accident, casino injury, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, traumatic brain injury and premises liability matters, and is also retained by defendants and by other law firms as local counsel or co-counsel. Its attorneys practice regularly in the Circuit, Chancery and County courts of southern Mississippi as well as the federal district courts and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Proven verdicts and settlements won by Owen, Owen & Smith, PLLC
On June 25, 2014 John Williams Jr., a certified crane operator at the VT Halter Marine shipyard in Pascagoula, was in the cab of a Manitowoc Model 16000 crawler crane during a three-crane lift of a ship's bow when the cranes began pulling apart and his tipped. The 18,000-pound steel counterweights stacked on its rear slid forward and struck the cab, throwing him eight feet head-first onto concrete. He survived, permanently incapacitated. A Gulfport jury found Manitowoc never warned operators that could happen and awarded $8,500,000; after fault was split 50/40/10 the judgment against Manitowoc was $3,400,000, and the Fifth Circuit affirmed in 2018.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
