The Missouri Bar Foundation has awarded the 2021 Purcell Professionalism Award to lawyer, Scott Bethune. This award is given to lawyers who have demonstrated professionalism in their professional and civic activities.
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Emails recently unsealed in the state of Mississippi’s talc lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson exposed the influence the pharmaceutical giant exerted over a report relied on by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when it declined to require cancer warnings on talc-based products
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Davis, Bethune & Jones featured in Missouri Lawyers Weekly for $3.2 million settlement for 2021 motor vehicle accident.
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Brightline Railroad and the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) have requested a $25 million federal grant as part of a $45 million safety project. The funds would be used to provide safety enhancements all across the 195-mile Florida corridor covered by the Brightline tracks between Miami and West Palm Beach.
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A passenger train operated by Amtrak derailed near Mendon, Missouri, on Monday afternoon. There are early reports of passenger injuries and potential casualties. Reports indicate the train derailed after colliding with a dump truck. The cause of the derailment is under investigation.
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Thomas C. Jones of DBJ secured a $1.9 million settlement for the family of a 22-year-old man who was killed in a railroad crossing accident. The man was traveling near Warrensburg, Missouri when his pickup truck was struck by a high-speed Amtrak train at an uncontrolled rural grade crossing.
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A Jackson County jury awarded DBJ-client with massive eye injury $2.25 in a product liability case. The plaintiff was blinded in one eye when a poorly designed battery exploded as he was trying to fix a stalled front-loader.
Exploding Battery Case Results in $2.25 Million Davis, Bethune & Jones Verdict Read More »
A welder who lost parts of his fingers while operating a hydraulic press was awarded $2.4 million by a Missouri judge. The plaintiff was represented by Scott Bethune and Wes Shumate of DBJ.
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DBJ earned a big result for a woman who became a paraplegic after a minor car accident when a neurosurgeon failed to perform emergency surgery was awarded $2.75 million by a Buchanan County, Missouri jury.
Jury Verdict of $2.7 Million For Failure To Perform Surgery Read More »
A Union Pacific Railroad employee represented by DBJ received a $3.2 million jury verdict as a result of a fall from a crane ladder. Mark Larsen, 54, missed a rung on the ladder and fell twelve feet onto the train tracks, suffering neck and back injuries.
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DBJ attorney Scott S. Bethune wins a $3.25 million jury verdict against employer who failed to follow its own security and domestic violence protocols that could have protected its vulnerable employee who was shot on company property by a known threatening ex-boyfriend.
Davis, Bethune & Jones Wins $3.25 Million Premises Liability Verdict Read More »
DBJ negotiated a $6.7 million settlement on behalf of a woman whose right arm and leg had to be amputated after a truck in which she was riding drove off an entrance ramp.
