On Monday, September 9, 2019 after two weeks of trial, a jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of a Lincoln Derr client.
The jury in this case deliberated for only one hour and forty minutes before returning to the courtroom answering the first issue in the case, "Was the Defendant's medical negligence a cause of Plaintiff's death?", "No." The case was bifurcated, but had the jury responded "yes" to the first issue, Plaintiff intended to put on in excess of two million dollars worth of damages for lost wages, medical expenses, pain, suffering, and the loss of the decedent to his family.
The case was tried in the traditionally
"plaintiff-friendly" jurisdiction of Fayetteville, North
Carolina, against two seasoned plaintiff attorneys. When asked
about the verdict, Sara Lincoln said, "We had heard that
Cumberland County was a difficult venue to get a defense verdict.
We used a local attorney to assist us in selecting a jury and we
think that helped us get a good group of jurors who were engaged
throughout the trial and seemed to fully understand the
complexities of this wrongful death case. We were impressed with
the juror's attention throughout the trial and their ability to
sift through the evidence to reach what we had always believed was
the right result."
We congratulate Sara Lincoln and Gwendolyn W. Lewis for defending this case to verdict. Our fierce litigation teams continue to find ways to present our clients cases to 12 people who are persuaded to rule in our favor based upon the facts and the law.
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