The following are examples of the results Oates & Courville has achieved for its clients:
Consumer-Based Class Actions
- $49,000,000 class action recovery against insurance company for failure to pay premium refunds to its policy holders.
- $45,000,000 class action recovery against insurance company for failure to pay premium refunds to its policy holders.
- $22,000,000 class action recovery against insurance company for failure to pay premium refunds to its policy holders.
Insurance Fraud
- $2,500,000 during-trial settlement for injured worker forced to sue his insurance company because of its bad-faith refusal to pay benefits and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Construction Accidents
- $1,400,000 eve-of-trial settlement for family of construction worker killed in forklift accident due to negligent weld repair of forklift.
- $750,000 pre-trial settlement for engineer seriously injured in accident involving negligent design and manufacture of scaffolding.
- $630,000 recovery in construction accident resulting from roof collapse.
- $450,000 recovery in construction accident resulting from failure to comply with OSHA regulations regarding exposed iron rebar.
Medical Malpractice
- $1,500,000 settlement from radiologist for negligent performance of aneurysm coiling procedure and negligent credentialing/supervision of that physician by the hospital, resulting in death.
- $1,350,000 settlement from hospital, obstetrician and surgeon for missed appendicitis in pregnant mother, resulting in baby's death.
- $1,350,000 Federal Tort Claims Act recovery for medical negligence due to injury to plaintiffs' spinal cord during surgery.
- $1,000,000 settlement from hospital and resident for delay in diagnosis of breast cancer.
- $1,000,000 settlement from hospital and family practice physician for negligent monitoring of patient on blood thinners, resulting in death.
- $900,000 settlement from hospital for failure to timely triage and treat patient experiencing heart attack in the emergency room, resulting in death.
- $850,000 settlement from hospital and emergency physician for delay in diagnosis and treatment of heart attack, resulting in death.
- $750,000 settlement against ENT surgeon for negligent surgery, resulting in stroke.
- $675,000 settlement from internal medicine doctor who failed to follow patient on anticoagulant therapy, resulting in stroke.
- $600,000 settlement from surgeon who negligently placed catheter for dialysis, resulting in death.
- $425,000 settlement for parents of stillborn baby due to hospital's failure to communicate fetal distress to obstetrician, resulting in death of full-term baby.
- $375,000 settlement for parents of stillborn baby due to negligence of obstetrician and hospital.
- $375,000 settlement from neurosurgeon for surgical injury of spinal cord.
- $325,000 settlement from plastic surgeon who failed to report skin cancer to patient, resulting in delay in treatment.
- $300,000 settlement against orthotics company for post-surgical shoulder injury of patient.
Motor Vehicle Accidents
- $1,600,000 recovery in automobile accident.
- $1,300,000 recovery in truck/pedestrian accident.
- $1,000,000 recovery in truck/automobile accident.
- $700,000 recovery in automobile/pedestrian accident.
Miscellaneous
- $9,500,000 recovery for violation of civil rights by city/county government (cost of construction of new jail facility).
- $3,500,000 recovery for professional misconduct.
