Billions of dollars recovered for deserving clients.

Since 1890, Hare Wynn has recovered billions of dollars for our clients and earned a reputation as one of Alabama’s premier plaintiffs’ firms.  Our results speak for themselves:

$2.86 billion judgment following a bench trial in Jefferson County, Alabama, against former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy for his mismanagement of the corporation.  This award was the largest judgment against an individual in American legal history.

$1.51 billion class action settlement on behalf of American corn farmers who suffered market losses as a result of the negligence of seed company Syngenta.  This settlement is the largest agricultural settlement in U.S. legal history.

$750 million settlement on behalf of American rice farmers against Bayer CropScience arising out of Bayer’s negligence that disrupted the American rice market.

$422 million recovery in a whistleblower action against Novartis Pharmaceuticals for off-label marketing.

$410 million settlement with oil companies for underpayment of royalties.  At the time, this was the largest False Claims Act settlement in American legal history.

$310 million class action settlement on behalf of investors who were defrauded by a defendant and an insurer in the settlement of a previous securities class action.

Over $300 million in clean-up costs that 3M and other defendants agreed to pay under a settlement to remediate PFAS contamination in six north Alabama counties (Lauderdale, Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence, Limestone, and Morgan counties).

$217.7 million jury verdict on behalf of a class of Kansas corn farmers who suffered market losses as a result of the negligence of seed company Syngenta.  This verdict was one of the ten largest jury verdicts in the United States in 2017.

$133 million settlement with UBS Securities for aiding and abetting accounting fraud at HealthSouth.

$48 million jury verdict for compensatory and punitive damages in favor of a dozen Arkansas rice farmers who suffered damages as a result of Bayer CropScience’s negligence that disrupted the American rice market.  On appeal, Hare Wynn successfully argued that the Arkansas punitive damages cap was unconstitutional.

$40.25 million jury verdict in Birmingham, Alabama, on behalf of a church music minister killed by a drunk driver.  This verdict was listed as one of the 100 largest jury verdicts in the United States in 2013.

$27 million settlement in shareholder derivative action brought in the Delaware Chancery Court against officers and directors of Duke Energy Corporation arising out of misrepresentations made to utilities regulators.

$25 million settlement in favor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky against Merck Pharma, Inc. for violations of the Kentucky Consumer Protection Act.

$21 million jury verdict in a medical malpractice action for the wrongful death of a child in Montgomery, Alabama.

Over $150 million recovered for clients in medical malpractice actions since 2013.

Hundreds of trials where Hare Wynn lawyers have served as lead trial counsel.

Over 450 reported appeals and mandamus proceedings before the Alabama Supreme Court, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, federal appellate courts, and the United States Supreme Court where Hare Wynn has served as appellate counsel for a plaintiff or counsel for amicus curie.

Handled cases in 25 states and in 66 of Alabama’s 67 counties.