Wyoming Personal Injury Lawyers, The Spence Law Firm

Victim of Iowa Police Car Collision Awarded $13.6 Million March 8, 2013 JACKSON, Wyoming, March 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A Black Hawk County, Iowa jury found the city of Waterloo liable in a 2008 police car collision that left 22-year-old Jarvis Boggs paralyzed and needing lifelong medical care, The Spence Law Firm LLC said today. Jurors returned a $13.6 million verdict for Mr. Boggs on Wednesday after 11 days of testimony and a day of deliberation. Spence Law Firm partners Mel C. Orchard, III and G. Bryan Ulmer, of Jackson, Wyo., tried the case to verdict. Mr. Boggs also is represented by Thomas P. Frerichs, of Frerichs, Law Office, P.C., of Waterloo, and John J. Rausch of The Rausch Law Firm, PLLC, of Waterloo. The lawsuit alleged that a Waterloo... Read more

Toyota Sudden Acceleration Case – Spence Law Firm in the News January 25, 2013 News coverage has been widespread lately over a November 5, 2010, crash caused by an unintended sudden acceleration by Paul Van Alfen's 2008 Toyota Camry. Robert A. Krause and The Spence Law Firm, LLC, along with co-counsel Mark Robinson, represented the Van Alfen family in their bellwether case against Toyota. Detroit News coverage of the case - available here. For NBC news coverage, click here. The case was to be the first "test" case to go to trial against Toyota on a sudden unintended acceleration claim. That day, Van Alfen's Toyota suddenly and uncontrollably accelerated, crashing into a wall near an exit ramp on I-80. The driver slammed on the brakes but the Camry did not... Read more

SPENCE IN TRIAL FOR INNOCENT MAN November 2, 2012 Gerry Spence and a team from the Spence Law Firm, including Doug McCalla, Mel C. Orchard, III, and Larissa McCalla, along with Tom Frerichs of Waterloo, Iowa, began a civil rights case Wednesday on behalf of Terry Harrington, a man who was wrongfully convicted and spent over 25 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Harrington and Curtis McGhee (who was imprisoned at the same time) are seeking justice against the police department that allegedly coerced witnesses, hid evidence, and framed these two men of murder. Gerry Spence shared the importance of the case with the jury in the opening statement: “The evidence will show these cops betrayed law and order, betrayed the... Read more

Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Spreads October 6, 2012 The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now reporting that at least thirty-five cases of fungal meningitis, including at least five deaths, in at least six states across the country, have been detected in recent days. The meningitis is reportedly linked to tainted vials of steroid drugs made by pharmaceutical company New England Compounding Center. Vials of methylprednisolone acetate, a steroid that is injected around the spinal cord in the lower back to relieve pain caused by ruptured disks or spinal stenosis, may have been contaminated and then sent to health care clinics across the country in the last several months. The CDC is currently investigating how the... Read more

ATTENTION: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT September 19, 2012 URGENT: The Spence Law Firm, LLC has been notified that we may have not received some attempted emails or online contacts by visitors to our website. Apparently an error or malfunction in our website email contact page(s) has prevented us from receiving emails and online contact submissions through the website. We were unaware of this problem so we may have failed to respond to some attempted contacts to our office. If you have recently attempted to contact our office and have not received a response, please recontact us immediately by emailing infointake@spencelawyers.com or phone 1-800-967-2117. We apologize for any delay in communication--someone from The Spence Law Firm will... Read more

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