About The Spence Law Firm
The Spence Law Firm is a Wyoming-based personal injury firm that represents injured individuals and families nationwide, handling cases involving catastrophic injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, product liability, civil rights, and workplace accidents. Founded by legendary trial lawyer Gerry Spence and based in Jackson, Wyoming, the firm has recovered over $1 billion in verdicts and settlements over more than 50 years of practice. The firm operates on a contingency fee basis and takes cases throughout the United States.
Proven verdicts and settlements won by The Spence Law Firm
After a seven-day bench trial in Sublette County, a Wyoming district court awarded APMTG Helium $35,199,276.79 against Denbury Onshore for failing to deliver helium under a long-term supply contract, and the Wyoming Supreme Court upheld the award in December 2020.
A Black Hawk County jury returned a $13.6 million verdict for Jarvis Lee Boggs, paralyzed when a Waterloo police officer ran a red light at 61 mph without lights or siren and slammed into his car at 12:45 a.m. on New Year's Eve 2008.
A federal jury in Wyoming awarded Amber Lompe $28.2 million after carbon monoxide from a faulty furnace caused permanent brain injury at her Casper apartment, a verdict that stood as one of the largest personal-injury awards in Wyoming history before the Tenth Circuit reduced the punitive component on due-process grounds.
A Sweetwater County jury returned a $5.19 million verdict for oilfield worker Blake Horr after a rubber well component, ejected by trapped pressure that Merit Energy's supervisor failed to relieve, shattered bones and severed nerves in his left hand and arm during a 2011 work-over operation in Bairoil, Wyoming.
A Green River jury returned a $10.165 million verdict for a Rock Springs man whose legs were amputated after Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County and its physician failed to recognize and treat an acute vascular emergency.
A federal jury in Casper found Chevron U.S.A. Inc. negligent in the February 2014 death of truck driver Thomas Coffey, who fell while loading molten sulfur from a three rail safety cage at Chevron's Glencoe Terminal near Kemmerer, Wyoming. The bottom rail of the cage was missing. The jury awarded Coffey's widow, Sharon Coffey, $1.2 million in wrongful death damages and apportioned fault at 63 percent to Chevron, 37 percent to Coffey's employer, and none to Coffey. Because Wyoming makes each actor answerable only for its own share of fault, the court entered judgment against Chevron for $756,000, which Chevron paid within the month. Noah W. Drew and Tyson Logan of The Spence Law Firm represented the widow.
Robert A. Krause of The Spence Law Firm resolved the first wrongful death bellwether case in the Toyota unintended acceleration MDL on behalf of the families of Paul Van Alfen and Charlene Jones Lloyd, killed in a 2010 Utah crash, with Toyota settling confidentially days before a February 2013 trial date.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
Attorneys at The Spence Law Firm
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