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More than $6 billion in settlements and verdicts for our clients since 2008

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Since 1890, Hare Wynn has recovered billions of dollars for our clients and earned a reputation as one of Alabama’s premier plaintiffs’ firms. Our results speak for themselves.

“I cannot express how much this law firm means to our family. Ashley Peinhardt and Leon Ashford along with everyone else that worked on my late mother-in-law’s case went above and beyond what we ever anticipated. We could not have gone down this path of justice without them.”

- Joy D.

2.86

BILLION

Judgment following a bench trial in Jefferson County, Alabama, against former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy for his mismanagement of the corporation. This award was the largest judgment against an individual in American legal history.

1.51

BILLION

Class action settlement on behalf of American corn farmers who suffered market losses as a result of the negligence of seed company Syngenta. This settlement is the largest agricultural settlement in U.S. legal history.

750

MILLION
Settlement on behalf of American rice farmers against Bayer CropScience arising out of Bayer’s negligence that disrupted the American rice market.

422

MILLION
Recovery in a whistleblower action against Novartis Pharmaceuticals for off-label marketing.

410

MILLION
Settlement with oil companies for underpayment of royalties. At the time, this was the largest False Claims Act settlement in American legal history.

310

MILLION
Class action settlement on behalf of investors who were defrauded by a defendant and an insurer in the settlement of a previous securities class action.
OVER

300

MILLION
In clean-up costs that 3M and other defendants agreed to pay under a settlement to remediate PFAS contamination in six north Alabama counties (Lauderdale, Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence, Limestone, and Morgan counties).

217.7

MILLION
Jury verdict on behalf of a class of Kansas corn farmers who suffered market losses as a result of the negligence of seed company Syngenta. This verdict was one of the ten largest jury verdicts in the United States in 2017.

133

MILLION
Settlement with UBS Securities for aiding and abetting accounting fraud at HealthSouth.

48

MILLION
Jury verdict for compensatory and punitive damages in favor of a dozen Arkansas rice farmers who suffered damages as a result of Bayer CropScience’s negligence that disrupted the American rice market. On appeal, Hare Wynn successfully argued that the Arkansas punitive damages cap was unconstitutional.

40.25

MILLION
Jury verdict in Birmingham, Alabama, on behalf of a church music minister killed by a drunk driver. This verdict was listed as one of the 100 largest jury verdicts in the United States in 2013.

27

MILLION
Settlement in shareholder derivative action brought in the Delaware Chancery Court against officers and directors of Duke Energy Corporation arising out of misrepresentations made to utilities regulators.

25

MILLION
Settlement in favor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky against Merck Pharma, Inc. for violations of the Kentucky Consumer Protection Act.

21

MILLION
Jury verdict in a medical malpractice action for the wrongful death of an infant in Montgomery, Alabama.
OVER

230

MILLION
Recovered for clients in medical malpractice actions since 2013.
HUNDREDS OF TRIALS
Where Hare Wynn lawyers have served as lead trial counsel.
OVER

450

REPORTED APPEALS
And mandamus proceedings before the Alabama Supreme Court, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, federal appellate courts, and the United States Supreme Court where Hare Wynn has served as appellate counsel for a plaintiff or counsel for amicus curie.
HANDLED CASES IN

25

STATES
And in all 67 of Alabama’s counties.

Our Clients’ Stories

Hare Wynn has represented thousands of individuals who have been injured or lost loved ones due to medical negligence, defective products, or a motor vehicle accident. Here are some of these clients’ stories: