The History of Arnold & Itkin

We represented a young mother injured in a severe ambulance accident; at the time, she was seven months pregnant. After the ambulance was driven full-speed into the back of a sugar cane truck, she sustained severe brain injuries and her spine was severed at T4. There was no chance of full recovery and her daughter was delivered prematurely. We successfully proved the fault of the ambulance driver and obtained a $117 million verdict for the mother and her two daughters. This was the largest single personal injury verdict in Louisiana history.

We represented a family on behalf of their son, who grew large breasts as a result of taking Risperdal. He began taking the medication at a very young age and within two years developed gynecomastia. Johnson & Johnson, through their subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals, denied wrongdoing. However, our trial revealed that there were important documents they wrongfully concealed regarding the link between gynecomastia and Risperdal usage. We secured a verdict over 20 times larger than the previous 4 Risperdal verdicts combined.

We represented a construction worker whose leg was amputated above the knee after a crane accident. At the time of the incident, a crane operator had been attempting to unstick an augur; they attempted to stop the job at least five times. Our client was 100 feet away behind a safety fence when he was struck. It took another crane to lift the equipment off of him. The trial took three weeks. We proved standard safety practices were violated in an effort to complete the job quickly and cheaply. It was listed #43 in The National Law Journal's Top 100 Verdicts of 2015.

We represented a Houston investor who had been secretly cut out of a deal to acquire one of Hawaii’s largest lumbar companies. The trial lasted for five weeks. In the end, the jury found the defendant to be guilty of breaching their fiduciary duties, violating the state’s unfair competition statute, and intentionally interfering with the acquisition efforts. The verdict of $41 million was a record award for commercial cases in Hawaii.

Attorneys Kurt Arnold, Jason Itkin, and Cory Itkin represented a family who lost a loved one while employed offshore. The resulting settlement is believed to be the largest known settlement of its kind for an offshore death.

Our attorneys represented four workers who were injured in the 2013 explosion at a Geismar plant in a trial against Williams Companies, Inc. and Sabic Petrochemicals. This was the second lawsuit of many that we are bringing regarding the explosion; juries have already awarded our clients more than $30 million total.