Paulson Coletti Trial Attorneys

John Coletti and co-counsel won a $49 million jury verdict on behalf of seven survivors of PacifiCorp's 2020 Labor Day wildfires, the fourth trial in the ongoing class litigation in Multnomah County Circuit Court.

A Multnomah County court awarded $20 million after a drugged driver killed 23-year-old Grant Fisher on Highway 26; the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled the state's $500,000 noneconomic damages cap unconstitutional as applied, restoring the full award.

Scott Busch was crossing a Portland crosswalk with the right-of-way when a McInnis Waste Systems garbage truck struck him and severed his leg; a jury awarded $13.5 million, and the Oregon Supreme Court struck down the state's $500,000 noneconomic damages cap as applied to his case.

A Multnomah County jury awarded $10 million to John Douglas Cox, a Clark County diesel mechanic left partially paralyzed after emergency physicians at PeaceHealth Southwest canceled a needed MRI, ordered the wrong imaging, and let him wait nearly 17 hours while a spinal epidural abscess compressed his spinal cord.

The parents of Madaline Pitkin, who died in the Washington County Jail in Hillsboro, Oregon in 2014 while going through untreated heroin withdrawal, recovered a $10 million settlement from Washington County and its jail medical contractor, Corizon Health, after a federal judge approved the deal in December 2018.

A Marion County, Oregon jury in November 2019 awarded $7 million to the family of Nicholas Gamalski, a 27-year-old powerline worker who fell about 100 feet to his death when a helicopter long-line rope severed in Louisiana in 2017. The helicopter operator, Winco Powerline Services, admitted fault and contested only damages. The award was $3 million to his estate and $4 million to his parents. Because the deaths happened in Louisiana, that state's law governed and no cap on noneconomic damages applied.

John Coletti won a multimillion-dollar jury verdict against I-Flow Corporation after the company's intra-articular pain pump destroyed Matthew Beale's shoulder cartilage following routine arthroscopic surgery, in what trial watchers tracked as the first verdict of its kind against a pain-pump manufacturer.