Smiling jurors who posed with lawyer John Black and his trial team said to the attorneys they wanted their nearly $114 million verdict to send a strong message to defendant United Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co.
June 15, 2021 at 03:49 PM
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On the first day of trial in a life insurance dispute, plaintiffs lawyer John Black’s trial strategy led him to call one of the other side’s witnesses.
Black said that the testimony of this witness, an insurance underwriter for defendant United Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co., was really the reason why his client won a $113.85 million verdict—$100 million was punitive damages—during a jury trial from June 7 to 11 in Jefferson County’s 60th District Court in Beaumont.
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Front row, from left: Darwin Blanco, Stephen Taggart, client Johnny Costello, John Scott Black, Richard Daly, Melissa Waden Wray and Donald Green. Three jurors stand in the background. Courtesy photo
