Verdicts & 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.
• $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.
• $900,000 settlement for the estate of a 62-year-old truck driver killed when a defectively designed two-story grain bin collapsed on top of his truck while delivering soybeans to a grain elevator.
• $1 million settlement for a 34-year-old bicyclist who was struck from behind by a truck on a rural road.
• $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.
• $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.
• $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.
• $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.
• $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.