About Eric Joyner

Eric Joyner represents clients at Parker & McConkie in motor vehicle accidents, trucking collisions, wrongful death, and premises liability claims. Before joining the firm, he practiced at a personal injury firm in Wisconsin handling complex injury and insurance cases. Earlier in his career, he served as a Hearing Officer for the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, adjudicating administrative appeals. Eric earned his J.D. from the University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, where he competed on the collegiate wrestling team. Outside the office, he volunteers as a wrestling coach at Murray High School.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Parker & McConkie Personal Injury Lawyers

These results are credited to Parker & McConkie Personal Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$52.2 millionVerdictTop 10 in Utah · #4

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.

U.S. District Court, District of Utah · 1992Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

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.

Salt Lake City / State of Utah · 2020Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$5 millionSettlement

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 City / State of Utah · 2023Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$1.5 millionSettlement

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.

Salt Lake County, Utah · 2023Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law
J.D.
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Utah

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.