Ted B. Lyon Jr. | Mesquite Personal Injury Lawyer

Unprecedented Verdicts

In 1999 Ted and his firm attained a $296 million verdict, Texas county awarded $296 million in compensatory damages to the father of 17 year old girl who died when a butane pipeline on her neighborhood exploded, engulfing her and her friend in a fireball that burned for 38 hours. Smalley v. Knoch was ranked #5 on the top ten verdicts for 1999. In 2013, Ted and his firm, along with Riggs, Abney, Neal, Turpen from Oklahoma attained a $27 million verdict against Enterprise Products Operating, LLC and Enterprise Texas Pipeline, LLC. The case stemmed from a massive, fatal explosion on Enterprise’s North Texas 36 Pipeline in June of 2010. This is the largest verdict in Oklahoma in 2013 or 2012. In 2011, Ted and his firm, along with Zeal Fitts from Houston attained an $18.5 million verdict against Greyhound for clients who were injured when Greyhound’s bus driver rolled a bus in icy conditions on the interstate. The verdict was the largest verdict in U.S. history against Greyhound, and largest verdict in Dallas County in 2011. In 2009, Ted won the largest products liability verdict in Texas Wiles v. Ford and in 2008 his verdict in Waltrip v. U-Haul International of $84,000,000 was the largest personal injury verdict in Texas and fifth largest civil verdict in the United States. In 2010 Ted argued the appeal in Waltrip v. U-Haul International which was the largest judgement ($39,000,000) upheld by the Dallas Court of Appeals in over 20 years.