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Worker Falls at Construction Site

Tom Doehrman won a verdict of $1,700,000 for a man who was working off of a ladder on the construction of a new commercial building, passed out and fell over 25 feet to the ground. He suffered a fractured lumbar spine and a mild traumatic brain injury. By the time of the trial the client had returned to work but was moving from job to job because of a changed personality and attention problems caused by the brain injury he had suffered during the fall. The defense argued at trial that the client's work problems were exaggerated and were not the result of a brain injury. The defense also argued that the fall was the client's own fault. Our theory of liablity was that there should have been a safer method of performing the work than the use of a
ladder. The jury found for the client and returned a verdict of
$1,700,000. This award was reduced to $850,000 for the client's
comparative fault.*

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