Tomeny Best Injury Lawyers
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About Tomeny Best Injury Lawyers
Tomeny Best Injury Lawyers is a personal injury law firm based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with additional offices in Lafayette and Ponchatoula. Founding partner Frank Tomeny III established the firm in 1989 and has been certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy since 2002. The firm has six attorneys, including James J. Best, who served 24 years as a district court judge for the 18th Judicial District before joining the firm. It handles car, truck, motorcycle, bicycle, boat, bus, and pedestrian accidents, slip and fall and premises liability, product liability, construction accidents, dog bites, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death cases. Reported results include a $15.23 million recovery from Atmos Energy, a $7.7 million judgment in Shows v. Shoney's, and $4 million settlements in a trucking accident and a wrongful death case.
Proven verdicts and settlements won by Tomeny Best Injury Lawyers
On January 24, 2016 a father driving the LA-1 service road toward the I-10 ramp in Port Allen swerved onto the left shoulder to avoid a merging car and braked. The shoulder had been designed and built as asphalt but was covered in grass, clover and dirt, so the car slid about 213 feet into a guardrail that opened the side of the car. His 10-year-old son in the back seat lost his left arm above the elbow and suffered leg fractures and a shattered spleen. A jury awarded $20,000,000 and put 20 percent of the fault on the State. The cap on claims against the State produced a judgment of $894,295.45, which the trial judge wiped out and the First Circuit reinstated. The Louisiana Supreme Court denied review in April 2025.
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