Just Verdicts Podcast with Brendan Lupetin
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.

Episode Preview

  • 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.

Host

Brendan Lupetin

Today's Guests

Clancy Boylan

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