Tobias & Comer Law

Verdicts & Settlements

A selection of reported outcomes and appellate decisions from the firm’s work across personal injury, wrongful death, defective products, and vehicle-collision matters.

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The following outcomes are selected examples from the firm’s published record. Visit the related practice area for more information about the legal issues involved.

$12.3MMaritime injury settlement $12MIndustrial accident bench verdict $7.5MWrongful death drowning jury verdict $7MDefective-product family fire settlement $5MUnderinsured motorist jury verdict $3.4MCrane accident award / product liability verdict

Desi V. Tobias

Results by matter

These reported verdicts and settlements are organized by the type of claim described on the firm’s source page.

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Personal Injury

Practice area

$12,300,000Settlement for a maritime injury.
$12,000,000Bench verdict in an industrial accident.
$3,400,000Award for a man blinded in a crane accident.
$1,600,000Jury verdict against a repossession agent involving dishwashing liquid used during a vehicle repossession.
$1,176,530.29Verdict in a car wreck case.
$860,000Premises liability settlement after a falling object caused a brain injury.
$520,000Settlement for a man injured in an industrial accident.
$500,000Trip-and-fall settlement arising in a parking lot.
$400,000Slip-and-fall settlement involving a recently mopped floor.
$325,000Settlement for damage caused by title-company fraud.
$160,000Jury verdict in a Marion County, Florida case involving a forklift load of steel and a leg injury.
$250,000Car wreck verdict in Baldwin County, Alabama.
$365,000Bench verdict combining punitive and compensatory damages arising from retaliatory termination after a work injury.

Selected outcomes

Wrongful Death

Practice area

$7,500,000Jury verdict in a wrongful death drowning case.
$940,000Wrongful death settlement arising from highway conditions.
$625,000Settlement for a man killed in a workplace accident.
$600,000Wrongful death settlement arising from a fall at an industrial plant.
$450,000Settlement arising from a shooting death at an apartment complex.

Selected outcomes

Defective Products

Practice area

$7,000,000Settlement in a product liability action involving a malfunction, a fire, and injuries to an entire family.
$3,400,000Jury verdict in a defective-product industrial accident case, Williams v. Manitowoc Cranes, LLC.
$2,500,000Settlement in a defective-product case arising from a mower rollover.
$2,350,000Settlement in a wrongful death case arising from an industrial accident.
$875,000Products liability settlement for a child who suffered a partial finger amputation after an electrocution shock involving a vending machine.
$850,000Settlement for a man whose hand was caught in a roller.
$625,000Settlement for a man injured in a fall from a roof.
$500,000Settlement in a defective-product case involving injuries caused by a boat motor.

Selected outcomes

Automobile & Trucking Accidents

Practice area

$5,000,000Jury verdict against an underinsured motorist carrier arising from a traffic accident.
$1,800,000Jury verdict in a truck-accident case occurring in a parking lot.
$1,000,000Settlement in an I-65 trucking accident case involving broken bones in the left leg.
$1,000,000Settlement in an I-65 trucking accident case involving a back injury.
$750,000Settlement in a trucking accident occurring in New York state.
$350,000Trucking accident case settlement.

Selected outcomes

Alcohol-Related Injuries

Practice area

$2,800,000Jury verdict in a dram shop case against a local bar.
$2,000,000Wrongful death dram shop settlement involving alcohol sold to a minor later fatally injured in a motor vehicle accident.

Additional attorney records

Published results by attorney

The source page also identifies the following selected results for Bryan E. Comer and Lacey D. Smith.

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Bryan E. ComerSuccessful Verdicts & Settlements

$12,300,000 settlement in a burn case.
$7,800,000 settlement in a defective-product case.
$7,000,000 jury verdict for the sexual assault of a mentally incapacitated young man at AltaPointe Health System.
$4,600,000 settlement in an industrial accident case.
$3,400,000 verdict in a defective-product industrial accident case, Williams v. Manitowoc Cranes, LLC, 898 F.3d 607 (5th Cir. 2018).
$1,318,000 jury verdict for a serious motor-vehicle collision caused by wheel separation from a trailer.
$1,176,530.29 verdict in a car wreck case.
$867,500 settlement in a wrongful death case involving a semi-truck in Montgomery County, Alabama.
$860,000 premises liability settlement after a falling object caused a brain injury.
$800,000 verdict in a corporate fraud case.
$500,000 settlement in a drunk-driver uninsured-motorist case.
$480,000 settlement in an uninsured-motorist case.
$450,000 verdict in a car wreck case in Baldwin County, Alabama.
$400,000 settlement in a slip-and-fall action.
$378,000 verdict in a motor-vehicle collision with an underinsured driver.
$250,000 verdict in a car wreck case in Baldwin County, Alabama.
$130,000 settlement in a premises-liability slip-and-fall action.

Lacey D. SmithSuccessful Verdicts & Settlements

$7,800,000 settlement in a defective-product case.
$7,500,000 verdict for a wrongful death drowning case.
$7,000,000 jury verdict for the sexual assault of a mentally incapacitated young man at AltaPointe Health System.
$1,318,000 jury verdict for a serious motor-vehicle collision caused by wheel separation from a trailer.
$500,000 settlement in a defective-product case involving injuries caused by a boat motor.
$175,000 verdict for an uninsured-motorist car accident case.
$100,000 settlement in a civil-rights action.
$95,000 settlement in a car wreck case.

Appellate advocacy

Reported decisions

A selection of reported appellate decisions described on the firm’s published results page.

Williams v. Manitowoc Cranes, LLC, 898 F.3d 607 (5th Circuit 2018)

The Fifth Circuit affirmed a $3.4 million verdict against a crane manufacturer in a product-liability failure-to-warn case.

Thrash v. Credit Acceptance Corp., 821 So.2d 968 (Ala. 2001)

The Alabama Supreme Court reversed summary judgment for a finance company in a wrongful repossession matter involving dishwashing liquid used by a repossession agent.

Ex parte Kraatz, 775 So.2d 801 (Ala. 2000)

The Alabama Supreme Court held that partial or poor lighting provided by a premises owner created a fact question for a jury.

Ex parte Brislin, 719 So.2d 185 (Ala. 1998)

The Alabama Supreme Court reversed summary judgment in a fraud action, concluding that fact questions remained on the asserted claims.

Callaway v. Whittenton, 892 So.2d 852 (Ala. 2004)

The Alabama Supreme Court reversed a directed verdict on whether a repossession agent breached the peace during repossession.

McDaniel v. Helmerich Payne, 61 So.3d 1091 (Ala. Civ. App. 2010)

The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals reversed summary judgment for an employer in a workers’ compensation case.

Hornady Transportation, LLC v. Fluellen, 116 So.3d 236 (Ala. Civ. App. 2012)

The court affirmed a judgment awarding a widow workers’ compensation death benefits and addressed the admission of an EMS report.

McDaniel v. Helmerich Payne, 112 So.3d 41 (Ala. Civ. App. 2012)

The appellate court reversed an adverse trial-court judgment concerning a severely injured traveling employee’s entitlement to workers’ compensation benefits.

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