Episode 35
December 23, 2024
Capitalizing on Defense Gifts to Secure $29M Verdict, with Clancy Boylan
Episode Summary
The gods gave Clancy Boylan and his team at Morgan & Morgan a few gifts in their case against a truck driver and his employer. Clancy’s client was riding his mountain bike across a road when the truck hit him, leaving him with catastrophic injuries.
One gift was the defense’s tone-deaf examination of Clancy’s client. Another was Clancy catching a trooper’s inaccurate testimony about his client. Tune in as Clancy breaks down the case with host Brendan Lupetin. It went to trial after the insurance company offered $500,000. It ended with the jury’s gift of $29 million.
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- Background of Heath Wilson v. Donald Beiler and JM Lapp Plumbing & Heating, LLC, in which Clancy won $29 million for his catastrophically injured client.
- Physics hasn’t changed since the apple fell on Isaac Newton’s head. Clancy’s accident reconstruction revealed the physics of the accident.
- Clancy has theories about why the insurance company offered $500,000, including the fact that the trial was held in a conservative Pennsylvania county.
- How Clancy came back from potentially damaging – and inaccurate – testimony that his client was cited for violating a Pennsylvania motor vehicle code.
- Clancy built the case around taking responsibility and emphasized evidence and facts in his opening.
- How the client’s girlfriend set the tone for trial as Clancy’s first witness.
- The framework for Clancy’s closing came to him at 4:30 a.m. that morning.
- How Clancy passed the burden of damages for his client to the jury.
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