An Arkansas jury awarded DBJ and its client a $20 million judgment to the family of a 15-year-old boy whose doctor operated on the wrong side of his brain.

Davis, Bethune & Jones (“DBJ”) is an experienced law firm with a history of successful jury verdicts against Amtrak and other railroad companies. In 1999, a Jackson County, Missouri jury awarded a $160 million verdict against Amtrak and Union Pacific Railroad in favor of a woman who was severely injured during a railroad crossing collision.

Thomas C. Jones of DBJ secured a $1.9 million settlement for the family of a 22-year-old man who was killed in a railroad crossing accident. The man was traveling near Warrensburg, Missouri when his pickup truck was struck by a high-speed Amtrak train at an uncontrolled rural grade crossing.

A Jackson County jury awarded DBJ-client with massive eye injury $2.25 in a product liability case. The plaintiff was blinded in one eye when a poorly designed battery exploded as he was trying to fix a stalled front-loader.

A welder who lost parts of his fingers while operating a hydraulic press was awarded $2.4 million by a Missouri judge. The plaintiff was represented by Scott Bethune and Wes Shumate of DBJ.

DBJ earned a big result for a woman who became a paraplegic after a minor car accident when a neurosurgeon failed to perform emergency surgery was awarded $2.75 million by a Buchanan County, Missouri jury.

A Union Pacific Railroad employee represented by DBJ received a $3.2 million jury verdict as a result of a fall from a crane ladder. Mark Larsen, 54, missed a rung on the ladder and fell twelve feet onto the train tracks, suffering neck and back injuries.

DBJ attorney Scott S. Bethune wins a $3.25 million jury verdict against employer who failed to follow its own security and domestic violence protocols that could have protected its vulnerable employee who was shot on company property by a known threatening ex-boyfriend.

DBJ negotiated a $6.7 million settlement on behalf of a woman whose right arm and leg had to be amputated after a truck in which she was riding drove off an entrance ramp.

DBJ achieved a $9.5 million settlement for the parents of a 15-year-old girl who was killed in an accident with a tractor-trailer. The girl was a passenger in a pickup truck on westbound Interstate 70 when a tractor-trailer driving east crossed the median and hit the pickup head-on, killing her and four others.

On May 31, 2022, a Louisiana jury awarded $9.77 million to a man injured after the garbage truck he was driving was struck by a BNSF Railway Company train, at a public railroad crossing maintained by BNSF. The case was tried by John Carroll and Tim Gaarder.

DBJ won a $10.25 million wrongful death verdict on behalf of the parents of a man who was improperly transferred to a facility not licensed to treat his type of illness.

DBJ negotiated a $12.5 million settlement with Union Pacific Railroad on behalf of a motorist hit by a train at a railroad crossing. It was the largest railroad crossing settlement in the history of the state of Arkansas.

DBJ won a verdict of $21 million from a St. Louis jury for two U.S. Army reservists who died when their helicopter crashed after hitting unmarked power lines. Three Rivers Electric Cooperative was found responsible because the lines and their supporting structures were almost impossible to see and Three Rivers knew aircraft flew at low levels in the area.

DBJ won a $25 million Jackson County, Missouri jury verdict for a 7-year-old girl who suffered a skull fracture and brain injury when her family’s minivan was rear-ended by a truck.

DBJ negotiated a $37.5 million settlement from Kansas City Southern Railway Co. on behalf of a family whose car was struck by a train at a railroad crossing. A 5-year-old girl was killed and her mother and three sisters were severely injured.

A Jackson County, Missouri jury awarded $30 million to DBJ-client Virgil McCormack, a carpenter, who received a 277-volt electric shock at a construction site when sub-contractor negligence led to the shock.

DBJ secured the largest verdict ever in St. Louis County when a jury awarded $48.4 million to an energy company that sued Chicago Title Insurance Co. for negligence.

DBJ earns its client a $13.9 million verdict against BNSF Railway for injuries caused by failure to properly maintain railroad crossing.