Shlesinger & deVilleneuve Attorneys, P.C.

$6M

Motorcycle Accident

Our client was riding his motorcycle when the pickup in front of him made an illegal U-turn causing the two vehicles to crash. Our client sustained multiple injuries including a traumatic brain injury, multiple fractures to several areas of his body, partial amputation to his foot and several other wounds. His treatment was extensive requiring multiple surgeries and prolonged therapy. Unfortunately, some of his injuries became permanent preventing him from being able to return to work. This was a complicated case with several legal issues to be carefully reconciled and multiple experts to ensure all areas were thoroughly addressed. After more than two years our litigation team was able to secure a $6,000,000 settlement for our client.

$2.7M

Auto Accident

Our client was driving his pickup truck on an icy highway near Klamath Falls when struck head-on by a semi-truck driving the opposite direction. Another semi-truck came upon the scene and due to the icy roads was unable to stop and struck the rear of our client’s vehicle. Client suffered facial and leg fractures. Client had multiple surgeries including the amputation of his big toe. Client was unable to return to his Military Reserve responsibilities and unable to work for over a year. The insurance company for the first semi claimed that our client crossed over the center line. We filed suit. We entered into a Mary-Carter agreement with the insurance company for the second semi. Multiple expert witnesses, accident reconstructionists, biomechanical experts, and doctors testified concerning speed, icy roads, and damage causation between the two impacts. The trial lasted 2 weeks. During jury deliberations, defendant insurance company number one offered one million dollars to settle, which was above their policy limits. The offer was rejected, and the jury returned a verdict of $2.73 million dollars and allocated defendant number one to be 99% liable, and defendant number 2 to be 1% liable.

$1.7M

Wrongful Death - Auto Accident

Our clients were a couple returning home from a shopping in Grants Pass Oregon when a vehicle traveling the opposite direction crossed the center line and struck them head on. The wife was killed upon impact and the husband suffered multiple injuries resulting in over a hundred thousand dollars in medical bills. The driver that crossed the center line was killed in the accident. Through diligent investigation we learned that the vehicle he was operating was a rental vehicle. Based on evidence at the scene of the accident, we were quickly able to secure a policy limit offer from his personal car insurance. However, we also discovered that the rental car was rented with a company credit card. We made a claim to the defendant’s employer, a global software development corporation, who subsequently denied that the driver was on the job at the time of the accident. We knew this would be a fight. Our team was determined not to leave any stone unturned. We retrieved the driver’s laptop in the vehicle at the time of the accident, obtained five years of business expense reports that the driver would submit monthly to his employer, and took multiple depositions from coworkers around the country and in other countries. The employer resisted providing many documents and motions to compel were pursued, and orders to compel were obtained. We reviewed thousands of pages of records and hundreds of emails between the deceased driver and his coworkers. We were able to determine from these records that the defendant driver had a routine where he would drive to the Medford Airport from his home, and he would fly to various customers to provide software services. Because he had died, we were not able to depose him. We were sure that he was likely in route to the airport for work purposes, but we were being stoned walled by the corporation and the airlines concerning any scheduled airplane flights that the defendant was driving to at the Medford Airport. After further diligence and motions to compel, we obtained the reservations for the flight that the defendant had scheduled. The timing of his drive would have brought him to the airport at the time of the ticket. We were also able to establish that the defendant driver maintained a substantial part of his employment was performed at his home office, and therefore, we could argue that he was traveling between work office sites. Shortly after receiving and presenting all the patterns of work of the driver, his airline ticket, and his emails, the defendant corporation entered into mediation, where the case was successfully settled for $1.695 million dollars.

$1.4M

Wrongful Death - Auto Accident

The flat-bed trailer of a semi swung across the opposing lane on a sweeping turn near Grants Pass, Oregon. The trailer collided with a vehicle with three occupants. A two-year-old child was killed. The others in the vehicle suffered minor injuries. Our investigation revealed that a heavy-duty brace on the flat-bed trailer had not been properly maintained and, as a result, broke and led to the collision. The defense argued that the child was not restrained in a child seat during the collision. The case settled for $1.4 million dollars.

$1M

Product Liability

We sued the seller of a dangerously defective whipped cream dispenser. Our client was injured when the product exploded while used in the normal course. Our client sustained serious injuries, including a traumatic brain injury with a crushed skull, hematoma, and blood loss. We successfully prosecuted the claim and obtained a court judgment against the seller for $1,001,987.17.

$1M

Auto Accident

Our client was hit head-on by a vehicle driven by a driver that had not only medications but marijuana in her system. Our client was forever rendered incapacitated and in prolonged loss of consciousness/vegetative state. The lawyers for the driver denied liability and refused to offer an any compensation. We wasted no time and a lawsuit was filed on behalf of our client. After securing witnesses, prolonged discovery, and extensive case preparation on behalf of our client, we were able to get the driver’s insurance company to pay out their policy limits of $1,000,000!