Lawyers with Bovis, Kyle, Burch & Medlin notched back-to-back defense wins last week, including a federal verdict clearing a home-building company of liability for an accident that left a man paralyzed and another awarding a little over $8,000 to a woman seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars after being hit by a vehicle at a flea market.

The federal verdict followed a seven-day trial stemming from a workplace accident when a crew was erecting a two-story log “kit” home near Blairsville in 2015. Bovis Kyle partner James Singer said the plaintiff, Jimmy Cribb, was a sympathetic person but shifts in his story and the quality of the defense’s expert witnesses helped sway the jurors.