Cunningham Bounds - Mobile, AL Law Firm

Martin v. Bender Shipbuilding Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-92-519 (settlement in construction site accident which resulted in paraplegia).

Chester v. Yamaha Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-94-1417 (product liability claim settled for severe personal injuries caused by negligently designed "waverunner" personal watercraft).

Bowler v. Miller Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-99-3250(confidental settlement involving University of South Alabama Medical Center resident physicians for the wrongful death of a baby from chorioamnionitis).

Alday v. Carthage Machine Washington County, Alabama Case No. CV-92-059-K (settlement in product liability/industrial accident injury).

Gillam v. FMC Corp. Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-90-2723 (jury verdict against tractor manufacturer for failure to include ROPS (rollover protective structure)).

Furr v. DCH Regional Medical Center Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Case No. CV-94-1060 (settlement in medical malpractice case for negligently allowing patient to choke on medication and failure to promptly respond and resuscitate).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for 17-year-old student who suffered permanent physical and brain injuries when the car in which he was riding as a passenger struck a truck driven by a driver under the influence of illegal drugs).

Kimble v. Balemaster U.S. District Court for the Southern District, Southern Division, Case No. CV-94-0034-AH-S (product liability/industrial accident involving nip point/loss of fingers in paper baling machine).

Simonson v. Mobile Infirmary Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for family of decedent who died in hospital after being given large amounts of potassium meant for another patient).

Tyler v. Mobile Infirmary Association Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-00-2202 (verdict for the estate of a woman who died of acute mesenteric ischemia; failure of hospital to accurately monitor and report patient's condition to treating doctors).

Payne v. Ciba Geigy Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-94-980 (personal injury verdict involving improper techniques used in rescue operation from closed vessel).

McLeod v. Alabama Electric Cooperative, Inc. Washington County, Alabama Case No. CV-01-109 (confidential settlement for family of truck driver who died during collapse of a landfill pit).

Kendall v. Vizzi Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-95-133 (Settlement for victim of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ("ERCP") and sphincterotomy which led to hypotension, sepsis, gangrene and, ultimately, quadrilateral amputations).

Ladner v. Bailey, et al. Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-98-2195-CNG (settlement in automobile accident case).

Baker v. Lee, Winston County Alabama Case No. CV-91-43 (settlement in medical malpractice/undiagnosed Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever death case).

Mary McFall, as Administratrix of the Estate of Gary Anthony McFall, deceased v. American Commercial Lines, L.L.C.; American Commercial Lines Holdings, L.L.C.; American Commercial Barge Line, L.L.C.; Louisiana Dock Company, L.L.C. Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-2001-0494-FDM (confidential settlement for the family of a Jones Act seaman crushed to death between two barges).

Hall v. Watson, et al. Baldwin County, Alabama Case No. CV-93-166 (settlement to high school student severely brain damaged as a result of an illegal tackling drill at the direction of his football coaches).

Witherspoon v. Mack Trucks, Inc. Clarke County, Alabama Case No. CV-97-172-C (verdict in product liability case wherein truck driver burned to death in a post-accident/rollover fire).

Barnes v. Carrio Baldwin County, Alabama Case No. CV-98-443 (settlement for victim of automobile collision).

Curtis v. Geo Centers, et al. Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for man who suffered severe burn injuries from explosions and fire while tac welding in the vicinity of effluent tank aboard test ship).

Lowther v. Anonymous (wrongful death settlement alleging improperly loaded truck colliding with and crushing plaintiff's vehicle case settled prior to suit being filed).

Corbin v. Lake Aviation, Inc. Mobile County, Alabama Case No CV-80-2470 (settlement of airplane crash case premised on products liability theory).

Rogers v. L & M Towing, Inc., et al. Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-2007-900138 (settlement for decedent of man who was hit by an improperly-secured vehicle which rolled off a tow truck).

Enfinger v. Greene Dale County, Alabama Circuit Court Case No. CV-98-66 (verdict for mother of stillborn child based on OB-GYN's failure to diagnose preeclampsia).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for family of man who underwent surgery for repair of ventral incisional hernia during which his distal ilium was perforated. Patient died due to delay in diagnosis of perforated viscus and delay of surgical repair of same).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for estate of young schizophrenic institutionalized in state mental hospital who died from undiagnosed acute appendicitis).

Anonymous v. Valujet Airlines, Inc. U.S. District Court for the Southern District, Southern Division Case No. CV-97-0830-AH-M (settlement in wrongful death case involving crash of Valujet Flight 592 in Florida Everglades).

Dillard v. Boles Dillard v. Boles, Dale County, Alabama No. CV-02-229-Q (settlement for family of man who died as a result of a perforation of his aorta during elective laparoscopic fundoplication surgery).

Gauthreaux v. Rheem Manufacturing. Co. Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-91-002148 (settlement in product liability case involving gas fired hot water heater and ignition of flammable vapors).

Mabel Wilson v. Pilot Life Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-93-3378 (settlement in insurance fraud case).

Scott v. Rheem Manufacturing Co. Baldwin County, Alabama Court Case No. CV-92-854 (personal injury verdict against gas-fired hot water heater manufacturer in product liability case).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for child left severely brain damaged from physician's failure to timely perform a Caesarean section in the face of non-reassuring fetal status and prolonged decelerations).

Cobb v. Alabama River Pulp, et al. Monroe County, Alabama Case No. CV-96-66 (settlement in wrongful death/product liability case concerning fall from a man lift).

Vice v. Bradley Clarke County, Alabama Case No. 98-149-C (settlement for victim of traumatic amputation injury in suit alleging willful misconduct by co-employee).

Richards v. Budd Co., et al U.S. District Court for the Southern District, Southern Division, Case No. CV-88-1022-P (pro tanto settlements and verdict for brain damaged victim of tire rim mismatch explosion).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for family of a man who had a heart attack in parking lot of hospital and was refused prompt admission to hospital or treatment in violation of Emergency Medical Treatment and Liability Act).

Long v. LaFleur Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-98-1728(confidential settlement for family under Alabama's "wrongful birth" cause of action(see Keel v. Banach, 624 So.2d 1022(ALA. 1993)).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Mobile County, Alabama (confidential recoveries for families of four victims of air crash of Beech Bonanza aircraft caused by engine malfunction).

Herrera v. Hosea Weaver & Sons, Inc. Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-2000-2802 (confidential settlements for families of one minor killed and another minor severely injured when crushed by a rearward moving Caterpillar Motor Grader operated on a public highway in violation of construction site traffic safety plan and while unequipped with necessary safety devices).

Lee v. Dempsey, Mobile County Alabama Case No. CV-93-2106-EBM (settlement in medical malpractice/child abandonment after surgery by physician - death case).

Martin v. Scott Paper Co. Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-94-2186 (settlement for family of man crushed to death by a barge lid).

Reid v. IPSCO Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for man burned in an industrial accident).

Sanders v. Ward, et al. Clarke County, Alabama Case No. CV-95-36 (pro tanto settlements and verdict for victim of botched laparoscopic procedure).

Buckalew v. Schwan's Sales Enterprises, Inc. Mobile County, Alabama, Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-2000-3467 (confidential settlement for homemaker permanently injured as a consequence of intersection collision).

Overstreet v. Ruedlinger Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-86-2312 (jury verdict in fraud case against insurer for claims arising from injuries to high school football player).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Baldwin County, Alabama (confidential settlement in oil field flash fire during service operations resulting in fatal burn injury).

Webster and Pittman v. Beech Aircraft Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-79-1460 (settlement during trial of airplane crash case).

Skinner v. Thompson Montgomery County, Alabama Case No. CV-1998-1693 (wrongful death settlement against general contractor, subcontractor, architect and premises owner in industrial accident where client was struck by falling concrete block wall).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement in industrial accident personal injury burn case).

Williams v. Talley Jefferson County, Alabama Case No. CV-92-4100 (product liability/co-employee case involving fall at construction site resulting in paralysis).

Harrell v. Harmony Corporation Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-95-0599 (settlement in personal injury case of worker hit by a piece of falling pipe while working in caustic area of paper company).

Causey v. Physicians at USA Medical Center (settlement in medical malpractice case for wrongful death of infant case settled prior to suit being filed).

Robinson v. Mobile Gas, et al., Mobile County, Alabama (verdict and confidential settlement for family of woman who died from carbon monoxide poisoning, which resulted from the lighting of a red-tagged central heating system).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for estate of elderly man who died from intracranial/subdural hemorrhage from hitting his head in an automobile accident and failure of hospital emergency personnel to properly and timely recognize and treat his symptoms despite the fact that they were told he was on Coumadin).

Williams v. BE&K Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-97-2931 (settlement in industrial accident case involving worker rendered paraplegic in near collision between train and elevated hoist).

Moorer v. Boasso America Trucking Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-2000-2730 (confindential settlement where trucking company failed to properly equip and illuminate the trailer portion of a tractor-trailer rig, thereby causing plaintiffs, husband and wife, severe injuries).

Abrams v. Star Enterprises, et al. Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-93-2481 (settlement in wrongful death case caused by explosion and fire of skid tanker while transferring petroleum).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Baldwin County, Alabama (confidential settlement for family of man who died when hit by a concrete truck which crossed the center line).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement regarding drug overdose of a 72-year-old post-surgical patient).

Medows v. Hornaday Truck Lines, Baldwin County Alabama Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-00-638 (verdict for family who suffered severe personal injuries as a consequence of a head-on collision on Interstate 65).

Baker v. Prescott Clarke County, Alabama Case No. CV-91-0024 (settlement in medical malpractice case).

Ebanks v. The Kelly-Springfield Tire Company, et al. Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court Case No. CV-2000-2151 (Confidential settlement for paraplegic as a result of an accident caused by a tire tread separation on an LT 235 85 R16 Load Range E.)

Adams v. Omni Insurance Co., et al. U.S. District Court for the Southern District, Southern Division, Case No. CV-93-0341-BH-S (settlement in case alleging bad faith denial of claim).

Anonymous v. Anonymous U.S. District Court for the Northeastern Division of the Northern District of Alabama (confidential settlement for deaths of young mother and her two children who were struck by a mobile home hauler who ran a red light).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement regarding anesthesia death of 43-year-old hip surgery patient).

Kennedy v. Bonner's Safety Services, Inc. Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-98-3347 (settlement in personal injury case involving worker who was exposed to hydrogen sulfide after descending into a sewer lift station and was severely brain damaged).

Reynolds v. Mobile Infirmary Association Reynolds v. Mobile Infirmary Association, Mobile Emergency Group, P.C. and Dr. Russ Tongco, Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court, Civil Action No. CV-01-2075-JRL (Verdict for estate of 70-year-old woman on Coumadin who died of an acute subdural hematoma after having presented to the ER with head trauma; failure to perform a CT scan prior to discharge).

Hannah v. Square D Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-91-3842 (settlement of electrocution case involving electrical switch panel).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for family of maritime employee who was killed in an allision between a ship and a commercial crane).

Howard v. Association Resources Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-94-3181 (settlement against workers' compensation carrier for allegedly fraudulently inducing worker to settle workers' compensation case for far less than its fair value).

Booker V. Timberjack Corp. Clarke County, Alabama Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-2001-0030 (settlement for family of workman crushed by hydraulic hood of Timberjack Knuckleboom Log Loader).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Wilcox County, Alabama (confidential settlement in favor of an electrical contractor's employee who was injured when he was pulled into the unguarded, rotating shaft of an overhead crane at the defendant's Pine Hill facility.

Anonymous v. Anonymous Monroe County, Alabama (confidential settlement for worker who lost one eye and damage to vision in the other eye involving industrial equipment used to apply caustic cleaning agent).

Blubaugh v. Federal Express Corp. Baldwin County, Alabama Case No. CV-98-48 (verdict and settlement for victim of rear-end collision involving Federal Express delivery vehicle).

Childress v. Sepic, Escambia County Alabama Case No. CV-94-166 (wrongful death verdict in medical malpractice case concerning ruptured placenta during labor which resulted in death of twins).

Johnson v. Hyman Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-97-3358 (settlement of medical malpractice/wrongful death case).

Kirk v. Allison, et al Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for family of victim of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ("ERCP") and sphincterotomy which led to sepsis, renal failure, multi-organ infections and death).

Smith v. Crown Life Insurance Co. Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-91-2083 (verdict in insurance fraud case).

Ard v. South Baldwin Hospital Baldwin County, Alabama Case No. CV-87-303 (verdict for family of little girl left brain damaged during a routine appendectomy).

Deyton v. Brister's Thunder Karts, Inc., et al. Baldwin County, Alabama Case No. CV-97-699 (settlement in product liability/wrongful death case involving go-cart).

Amtrak Sunset Limited Litigation U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, Southern Division, Case No. CV-94-5000-RV-C (worst railroad disaster in U.S. history (47 deaths and over 100 injuries) in claims against Amtrak and CSX railroad for negligent design and maintenance of railroad bridge. Settlement reached for plaintiffs after years of complex multi-district litigation).

Rudolph v. Harco Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-97-039 (Settlement for victim of misfilled prescription of Prednisone).

Maxwell v. Providence Hospital Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-99-0987-FDM (wrongful death settlement in nursing negligence case for failure to restrain).

Hollen v. Alabama Shipyard, et al. Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-99-294 (settlement in personal injury case wherein worker stepped into an uncovered trench and sustained injuries to his foot).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Monroe County, Alabama (confidential settlement for personal injury case involving a worker who was burned by boiling water after an explosion to a deaerator storage tank).

Autrey v. Hasek Mobile County, Alabama Case Number CV-92-4776 (settlement in medical malpractice case).

Bettis v. Mobile Infirmary Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-94-1494 (medical malpractice verdict in wrongful death case).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Mobile County, Alabama (jury verdict for widow of a Texas woman who was killed when the automobile in which she was riding was struck by a tractor-trailer being driven by one of the defendants. A confidential settlement was reached with the driver of the automobile.

Scheurer v. Target Corporation Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court CV-04-1049 ($10.25 million verdict (and subsequent confidential settlement) for worker severely injured while working on top of extended scissor lift at Target distribution center in Huntsville, Alabama when struck by motorized stock picker).

Randy Jones v. Klein Tools Washington County, Alabama Case No. CV-92-92-P (product liability, industrial injury (paraplegia) claim due to "rollout" of fall protection hook).

Overstreet v. Riddell Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-86-2312 (verdict against football helmet manufacturer for high school student rendered paraplegic from on-the-field injury).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Anonymous v. Anonymous, Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama (settlement forbirth injury arising from delayed C-section delivery).

Howell v. J & J Wood, Inc., et al. U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama, Eastern Division (confidential settlement for family of decedent whose automobile struck defendant’s log truck when the truck was stretched across all four lanes of a busy U.S. federal highway near Phenix City, Alabama at night and in the rain).

Radcliff v. Camco Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-96-2862 (settlement in wrongful death automobile accident case).

Anonymous v. Anonymous _________, County, Alabama (Confidential settlement for family of 78-year-old woman who died as a consequence of a defectively designed and manufactured seat back in a 1991 passenger vehicle).

Jones v. Ergon Oil (settlement of product liability/tanker truck rollover case settled prior to suit being filed).

Lundy, et al. v. DL Peterson Trust, et al. Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for man in head-on automobile collision with employee who fell asleep or passed out at the wheel after working many hours of overtime).

McMillan v. Massey Ferguson Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-82-0686 (jury verdict for wrongful death against manufacturer of corn header).

Anonymous v. Anonymous Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for family of young man killed when ejected from 15-passenger Ford van upon left rear tire's tread separation of Firestone Steeltex tire).

Thornton v. Autry Greer & Sons, Inc. Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-99-3865 (confindential settlement for child of workman killed when crushed at loading dock by a backing 18-wheeler. Plaintiff's theories included negligent failure to warn against the manufacturer of the dock load leveler and willful miscondut by the co-employee driver by failing to maintain dock bumpers).

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