Parker & McConkie Personal Injury Lawyers
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Parker & McConkie Personal Injury Lawyers has represented injured individuals and families in Utah and the Mountain West since 1978, handling vehicle accidents, medical malpractice, wrongful death, and premises liability cases. The firm operates eight offices across Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Arizona.
Notable results
A federal jury in Utah awarded $52.2 million to the survivors of Rulon Allred, believed at the time to be the largest wrongful death verdict in state history, against the woman who confessed in print to killing him 15 years earlier.
Parker and McConkie secured a $13.5 million settlement for the family of Lauren McCluskey, a University of Utah track athlete murdered on campus after police failed to act on her repeated stalking reports.
The University of Utah agreed to pay $5 million to the parents of Zhifan Dong, a 19-year-old international student killed by her boyfriend at a Salt Lake City hotel in February 2022, after an internal review confirmed university staff missed repeated warning signs that she was in danger.
Salt Lake County paid $1.5 million to the mother of a 25-year-old woman who died of methamphetamine toxicity at the county jail after nursing staff dismissed her overdose symptoms as a panic attack and left her unmonitored in a prone position.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.








