Des Moines Personal Injury Attorneys

Verdict & Settlements

The result we obtained in each of these cases was based on facts, legal issues, and insurance coverage that were unique to each case. For this reason, you should not assume or expect we will obtain a result like this in your case. We are only presenting this information to show that LaMarca & Landry, P.C. has litigated large cases, complex cases, and cases arising out
of a wide variety of factual scenarios. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

• $2.4 million settlement in an ERISA case for 25 members of an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) whose stock in the company was forcibly sold at less than fair market value by the trustees of the ESOP.
• $4.3 million trial court ruling against the Iowa Department of Transportation for negligent maintenance of a highway resulting in a head-on collision seriously injuring two members of the Drake University women’s basketball team.
• $14.2 million federal court jury verdict, including $10 million in punitive damages, for 10 Midwest seed companies for breach of contract and fraud by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, the largest corporation in the world.
• $4.5 million settlement from a national accounting firm to investors who bought stocks and bonds in reliance on the firm’s financial information in an offering underwritten by a commodities brokerage.
• $4.4 million trial court ruling for fraud by a developer who diverted loan proceeds rather than pay a construction firm which built subdivision infrastructure in reliance on loan proceeds. The ruling consisted of $1.1 million in actual damages and $3.3 million in punitive damages.
• $2 million medical malpractice jury verdict after a spine surgery operation left a 55-year-old woman partially disabled.
• Injunction against the State of Iowa on behalf of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Bekenton USA, Inc., preventing the State of Iowa from improperly assessing royalties in a Master Settlement Agreement in nationwide tobacco class action settlement.
• A multi-million dollar confidential settlement for 8 medical malpractice victims from the estate of a prominent Des Moines Plastic surgeon with a history of personal problems and who later killed himself.
• $1.7 million federal court jury verdict for breach of contract and slander against Washington National Insurance Company on behalf of a Sioux City insurance brokerage.
• $1.5 million settlement on behalf of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association against a bank for undue influence to get an elderly woman to change her Will so as to give $1.5 million to a local charity rather than the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
• $2 million class action settlement to 1,200 patients who were overcharged for medical services by the use of hospital liens filed by Mercy Medical Center against their motor vehicle personal injury lawsuits.
• A multi-million dollar post-jury verdict settlement against 18 manufacturing companies for the families of 10 persons killed in a department store fire, which the jury found to have been caused and spread by defective polyvinyl chloride wire insulation.
• $1 million settlement for a 34-year-old bicyclist who was struck from behind by a truck on a rural road.
• $300,000 jury verdict for breach of verbal agreement for a business who sued the widow of its former president who named her, rather than the company as promised, as the beneficiary of an insurance policy on his life.
• $300,000 recovery for a 77-year-old widow who was defrauded by a younger man who had gained her friendship and confidence, only to obtain money and mistreat her.
• $175,000 jury verdict against a Des Moines orthopedic surgeon for a lawyer who had multiple dislocations after a hip replacement surgery.
• A multi-million dollar confidential settlement of a nuisance lawsuit on behalf of 125 homeowners who were exposed to particulate matter and hydrogen chloride emissions from a manufacturing facility.
• $850,000 settlement for the estate of a man who died of undiagnosed cardiotoxicity from the cancer drug Fluorouracil (5-FU).
• $1.7 million federal court jury verdict for 47 former employees of the Younker’s department store chain who were denied severance pay upon the consolidation of this division with Carson Pierce Scott by parent company Saks, Incorporated.
• Successful defense of breach of exclusive intellectual property license agreement and successful trial court ruling on counterclaim for defamation and unfair competition, resulting in award of $157,500 to licensee and over $250,000 in statutory attorney fees.
• $390,000 jury verdict for the estate of a 21-year-old unmarried woman without dependents who was killed in an intersection collision in a rural Iowa county.
• $800,000 settlement for a 46-year-old woman who suffered a back injury while a passenger in a helicopter that suffered engine failure and had to ditch in the ocean off Islamorada, Florida.
• $900,000 settlement for the estate of a 62-year-old truck driver killed when a defectively designed two-story grain bin loaded with six tons of soybeans collapsed on top of his truck while delivering soybeans to a grain elevator.
• $1.6 million settlement to the widow of a 46-year-old grain elevator manager killed by an explosion of grain dust ignited from an electrical short.
• $2.8 million administrative law judge ruling in favor of Consolidated Freightways for damage to consigned freight and overcoming “act of God” limitation in Chicago & Northwestern Railway bill of lading for negligent operation of train during violent thunderstorm resulting in derailment.
• $1,110,000 jury verdict against Norwest Bank Iowa, N.A. for negligence resulting in the loss of an SBA guaranteed loan commitment to a small manufacturing company.
• $664,000 trial court ruling for breach of a commercial lease and constructive eviction due to unremediated rainwater intrusions which caused property damage and led to mold growth. The award included damages for the purchase of leasehold improvements at new location, employee downtime during relocation, moving expenses, reimbursement for remediation expenses during occupancy and attorney fees.
• Landmark case with confidential monetary settlement and requiring agreement by major medical center not to engage in quota contracts which required cardiologists and heart surgeons to utilize implantable cardiac rhythm devices from one manufacturer.
• $40,000 settlement for tortious interference claim against a landlord for interfering with the sale of a tenant’s business operated in landlord’s shopping center. In same case, also obtained $145,000 district court judgment against a third party for encouraging landlord to make a side-deal with buyer.
• $150,000 district court judgment for seller against buyer for breaching purchase agreement for restaurant business.
• $475,000 settlement in favor of general contractor in a mechanic’s lien priority dispute between contractor’s lien and the bank’s first mortgage.
• $71,664.70 district court judgment for breach of promissory note.
• $870,000 settlement for a non-displaced thoracic fracture and a herniated cervical disk requiring infusion incurred by a 40-year-old professional injured in a multiple rollover collision in Warren County, Iowa.
• $690,800 settlement for the estate of a 45-year-old single woman with no dependents who was killed when a garbage truck drove over her.
• $150,000 settlement for a man who suffered a broken leg when the defective logging tool he was using broke.
• $2.74 million settlement for a 24-year-old woman who suffered multiple pelvic fractures and a concussion after being run over by a DART bus in downtown Des Moines.
• $75,000 settlement for a man who suffered soft tissue injuries after falling down an escalator.
• $140,000 settlement for an 11-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted after she was allowed to leave a youth shelter with a 17-year-old male resident who sexually assaulted her.
• $950,000 settlement for a man who suffered a broken arm and cervical disc bulges when he was struck by a semi while aiding another motorist on I-80.
• $45,000 medical malpractice settlement for a woman whose thumb was injured after she was placed in an incorrect post-operative splint.
• $1,665,000 settlement for an unmarried man with no dependents who suffered non-paralyzing spinal injuries in a single-car rollover, paid by the driver and owner of the vehicle and the rural Iowa county that negligently maintained the gravel road on which the rollover occurred.
• $250,000 for husband and wife injured when pickup truck turned in front of them.