Osborne & Francis

$1.3B

Civil Rights

Greg Francis served as lead counsel for the team of lawyers that reached a $1.25 billion settlement with the USDA on behalf of black farmers from around the country, addressing systematic discrimination. This marks the largest civil rights settlement in U.S. history.

$1B

Product Liability

Osborne & Francis Founding Partner Joe Osborne was a member of the executive committee that successfully consolidated and settled a group of lawsuits against the medical technology company Stryker in November of 2018. Stryker’s LFIT Anatomic CoCr V40 Femoral Head harmed patients when normal wear and tear to the metal-on-metal artificial hip joint released toxic metal particles into the recipient’s body. The settlement compensated “hundreds and hundreds” of patients. In 2014, Osborne was on the steering committee for suits over the Rejuvenate modular neck device that forced Stryker to compensate patients with more than $1 billion.

$417M

Product Liability

A California jury awarded a woman $417 million in a personal injury lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson for ovarian cancer linked to baby powder use. The award included $70 million in compensatory and $347 million in punitive damages.

$220M

Medical Malpractice

The Maya Kowalski case against Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, featured in the Netflix documentary “Take Care of Maya.” The hospital was found guilty of wrongfully committing Maya and cruelly separating her from her mother.

$216.7M

Medical Malpractice

A Florida jury awarded one of the largest medical malpractice payouts in United States history for a misdiagnosis of stroke symptoms.

$33.1M

Medical Malpractice

A birth injury case involving professional negligence and failure to treat. A doctor failed to perform an emergency C-section because he was on a phone call with his stockbroker, then lied and changed medical records.