{"id":914,"date":"2015-12-17T19:19:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T03:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullivant.wpengine.com\/?p=914"},"modified":"2021-02-17T19:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T03:22:17","slug":"oregon-wrongful-death-action-attorney-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/oregon-wrongful-death-action-attorney-misconduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullivant Attorney, Team of Co-Counsel Get $3.6 Million Verdict Set Aside, New Trial Ordered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Wednesday, December 09, 2015<br \/>\nDRI<\/p>\n<p><em>The Voice<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan Lindahl<\/strong> and a team of co-counsel persuaded a trial judge to grant a new trial based on attorney misconduct in an Oregon wrongful death action arising from decedent&#8217;s alleged exposure to asbestos. The plaintiff&#8217;s $3.6 million jury verdict was set aside after the defendant discovered that not all required bankruptcy documents were produced during discovery.<\/p>\n<p>The decedent allegedly died because of mesothelioma caused by exposure to asbestos 50 years ago when the decedent briefly worked as an independent contractor applying insulation at defendant&#8217;s mill. The jury returned a verdict for the decedent. After the trial was over, defendant discovered that, although plaintiff&#8217;s counsel had represented in discovery that all bankruptcy-related materials had been produced, plaintiff&#8217;s counsel had failed to produce numerous bankruptcy trust documents, including exposure affidavits, discovery responses, and alternative exposure depositions. The documents were discovered only after the court ordered\u2014over plaintiff&#8217;s counsel&#8217;s objection\u2014that plaintiff must sign authorizations permitting defendant to obtain complete information directly from the bankruptcy trusts. After discovering the documents, defendant moved for a new trial, arguing that the failure to produce the documents constituted misconduct warranting a new trial. The trial judge agreed and set aside the verdict and ordered a new trial based on misconduct by plaintiff&#8217;s counsel. Plaintiff has appealed the order granting a new trial.<\/p>\n<p>Full Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bullivant.com\/files\/dri-and-the-defense-wins-attorney-misconduct-oregon-wrongful-death-lindahl-2015-12-09.pdf\"><u>And the Defense Wins<\/u><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Wednesday, December 09, 2015 DRI The Voice Dan Lindahl and a team of co-counsel persuaded a trial judge to grant a new trial based on attorney misconduct in an Oregon wrongful death action arising from decedent&#8217;s alleged exposure to asbestos. The plaintiff&#8217;s $3.6 million jury verdict was set aside after the defendant discovered that not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[197],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-news","authorormentioned-daniel-lindahl","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}