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Law Firm Honored as National Law Journal’s Elite Trial Lawyers Finalists
National award based on 2021 work in mass tort litigation
DALLAS – Dallas-based Martin Baughman (now Ben Martin Law Group) was named 2022 finalist for the National Law Journal’s Elite Trial Lawyers honors for mass tort litigation based on the firm’s string of jury verdicts and settlements on behalf of individuals injured by defective medical devices.
Led by firm founder Ben Martin, the firm trial teams set a blistering pace of trials in 2021, securing four separate medical device defect verdicts in a nine-week period between May and July 2021 on behalf of individuals injured by defective IVC blood clot filters.
The rapid-fire series of trials took them to federal courtrooms in Dallas (twice); Portland, Oregon; and Madison, Wisconsin. The verdicts with combined damages of more than $7 million breathed new life into litigation prospects for hundreds of victims of IVC filter injuries.
“It’s a tremendous honor to stand up for individuals who have been hurt by dangerous products and obtain justice for them,” said Mr. Martin. “And to have our hard work recognized by the NLJ is particularly rewarding.”
Martin’s work in 2021 builds upon a career spent as a national leader in multidistrict litigation, mass torts and important personal injury litigation, including a long history of significant verdicts and settlements in litigation including medical device, toxic torts and a range of other disputes. In 2019, Martin was lead counsel in a bellwether MDL trial related to Cook Medical’s IVC filter. The $3 million verdict in that case marked the first ever design defect finding by a jury in an IVC filter case.
Elite Trial Lawyers finalists were selected in 25 categories from hundreds of submissions, and the firm was one of only five firms singled out for mass tort litigation.
Ben Martin Law Group attorneys have helped thousands of victims of accidents and injuries caused by catastrophic vehicular and trucking accidents, oil field explosions, medical and hospital negligence, medical device and pharmaceutical design defects, and personal injuries caused by negligence and gross negligence.
For more information, call Ben Martin Law Group at (214) 761-6614, or contact us for a free, no obligation initial consultation.