Wetzel Law Firm
Proven VerdictsAbout Wetzel Law Firm
Wetzel Law Firm is a personal injury firm founded in 1979 by Jim Wetzel, with offices in Gulfport, Biloxi, and Ocean Springs, Mississippi. His son Garner Wetzel joined the firm in 2012. James K. Wetzel is licensed in Mississippi and Garner J. Wetzel is licensed in Mississippi and Louisiana. The firm handles medical malpractice, car accidents, premises liability, bicycle and motorcycle accidents, traumatic brain injuries, workers' compensation, construction accidents, and wrongful death cases, and states a 95% success rate in helping clients obtain compensation.
Proven verdicts and settlements won by Wetzel Law Firm
William Joel Dixon, 28, an insulin-dependent diabetic, was held in the George County Regional Correctional Facility in Lucedale in September 2014. For seven days he got no insulin. The jail nurse, Carmon Sue Brannan, dismissed his worsening condition as methamphetamine withdrawal. He died on September 24, 2014 of diabetic ketoacidosis. Brannan was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years. In June 2022 George County agreed to pay his estate, his mother and his children $2,750,000.
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