TODAY, attorney Ranelle M. Meroney of our firm obtained a major defense verdict for a homebuilder in a suit brought by a seriously injured employee of a framing subcontractor. The plaintiff sustained a tragic quadriplegia paralysis due to a fall from the second story of a house under construction. He alleged the homebuilder was negligent in failing to provide fall protection. Ranelle earlier moved for summary judgment on behalf of the homebuilder, but the motion was denied and sent to a full jury trial beginning last week in Austin, Texas.
The plaintiff’s attorney, a nationally known and respected construction law specialist, presented an expert’s life care plan to the jury that the plaintiff would require over 10 million dollars in care and medical attention for the remainder of his life. After 6 days of trial and a half day of deliberations, the jury returned a complete defense verdict for our client. Ranelle is A-V Rated as well as board certified in personal injury trial law and is one of the few women lawyers in Texas elected by her peers to the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates. She was assisted in trial by legal assistant, Arva Reyna.
You can meet and hear Ranelle speak about this important case at our 11th annual full day, fully accredited ULTIMATE CLAIMS HANDLING SEMINAR scheduled for this Friday, October 6, 2006 at CityPlace Conference Center in Dallas, Texas. Over 200 of your professional colleagues from around the country have already signed up so far this year for this widely acclaimed seminar. You can register too by going to www.chmc-law.com and faxing in your registration now.
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