Case Description
Attorney Roland Christensen and our legal team obtained a jury verdict of $411 million for a young man who was injured while working for Brock Services, one of the world’s largest scaffolding companies. Our client was working on scaffolding at the Phillips 66 Lake Charles refinery when a 20-pound metal bar fell and struck his head. Despite wearing a hard hat, the impact was enough to render him paralyzed and barely verbal.
As a result, the plaintiff’s family had to rearrange their lives to make sure he was taken care of. He was using his wages to put one of his sisters through college; she had to drop out to help take care of him.
Brock Services never reported the incident and refused to take responsibility. Our firm wouldn’t allow that; we spent nearly two years preparing a case against Brock Services while trying to get them to provide for our client’s losses. They refused and kept refusing through the week-long trial, where they accused him of lying about his injuries.
In the end, the jury saw through the defendant. They awarded our client and his family $411 million—the largest single-plaintiff injury verdict in Louisiana history.