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Car Wreck Results in Confidential Settlement Over Policy Limits at Trial

This article is about Matt Wetherington’s efforts to get a catastrophic car wreck to trial as quickly as possible. It is also about a corporation and its insurance company’s efforts to delay trial by any means necessary. These tactics include backing out of signed agreements, late disclosure of evidence, and even allowing the at-fault driver […]

$24+ Million Verdict for Failing to Recognize and Report Child Abuse

Matt Wetherington served as associate counsel on a six week trial that resulted in a 24.8 million verdict. The lawsuit alleged that hospital staff failed to take action in 2003 when a 6 year-old boy was taken to the hospital with injuries that showed he was abused. The boy was taken to the hospital with […]

$3 Million Settles Portion of Tire Failure Case

$3 Million Settlement For Recalled Tire A final, confidential settlement with Ford Motor Co. has ended a multidefendant suit involving a woman injured when a tire that was supposed to have been recalled nearly 12 years earlier blew out, sending the Ford Explorer she was driving tumbling on I-85. Over the course of the […]

8.5 Million Verdict for Motorcycle Wreck

Large Verdict for Motorcycle Crash in Rome, Georgia A Floyd hospital employee who rejected a $2 million offer to settle his suit after losing his leg when a hospital vehicle collided with his motorcycle was awarded $8.6 million last week by a jury in Rome. Michael Werner and Matt Wetherington represented plaintiff William “Cleve” Corley. […]