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January 05, 2023
Congratulations Colin King
DKOWHMM congratulates Colin King, our new President of the Firm.
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January 03, 2023
Diamond Ranch Academy Lawsuit
Link: Complaint Diamond Ranch
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May 03, 2022
Alan Mortensen Presents at UAJ Auto-Spectacular
On April 22, 2022, Alan Mortensen spoke at the Utah Association for Justice Auto-Spectacular Mid-year seminar. The title of his presentation was “Anchors Aweigh – Not anchoring down your general damage case.”
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On March 17, 2022. Alan Mortensen and Lance Milne presented at the Trial Lawyers University on “Window Blind Strangulation - $25 Million Wrongful Death Verdict + Punitive Damagesspoke at the Utah Association for Justice Plaintiff’s Exchange on their $25,000,000 Wrongful Death Verdict in Salt Lake County. Click here to watch. $25M Window Blind Strangulation Wrongful Death Verdict | Jim Corrigan, James O'Leary, Alan Mortensen, Lance Milne; Hosted by John Campbell | 03/02/22 | Trial Lawyers University (tluondemand.com). In February of 2022, Mr. Milne and Mr. Mortensen presented at the Utah Association for Justice Plaintiff’s Exchange on this verdict also.
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October 28, 2021
DKOW Congratulates Lance L. Milne
The Firm is proud to announce the addition of Lance L. Milne’s name to the firm name: Dewsnup King Olsen Worel Havas. This is a well-deserved honor, and we are pleased to recognize Lance for his contributions to our team.
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October 04, 2021
Mahe Press Conference on Blind Safety
SALT LAKE CITY, October 4, 2021 (Newswire.com) - As a result of the September 21, 2021, Salt Lake County $25,000,000 jury verdict[1] that found that the window blind in the home of Reno and Sunny Mahe, was dangerously defective, causing Elsie Mahe's strangulation death on Nov. 22, 2016, and given the most recent strangulation death in Utah County of a young boy[2] and the discovery of other Utah children who have died and been injured on corded window coverings, Sunny and Reno Mahe will be holding a press conference, with their team of blind safety experts[3], on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021, at 11 a.m. at the Centerpoint Legacy Theater in Centerville, Utah. The Mahe's and their team, will be answering questions about how to make corded window coverings safe, especially in homes with small children. The Mahe's brought suit against the blind manufacturer, Century Blinds, in order to raise public awareness of the strangulation hazard…
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October 04, 2021
2021 Verdicts
DKOWHM is very proud of the litigation team of Alan Mortensen, Lance Milne and Christopher Cheney in receiving and collecting over $62,000,000 in jury verdicts and settlements so far in 2021, including what is believed to be the largest wrongful death verdict for a minor child in Utah history ($25,000,000) and the largest single plaintiff settlement in Utah history.
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October 04, 2021
Wrongful Death Verdict
Congratulations to the litigation team of Alan Mortensen, Lance Milne and Christopher Cheney for the $25,000,000 wrongful death verdict recovered on behalf of their clients, the parents of a three year old girl who straggled in corded blinds in her home. DKOWHM's clients brought suit against the blind manufacturer, Century Blinds, in order to raise public awareness of the strangulation hazard corded blinds pose in homes with children. The Mahe's want the public to know what they did not know. The jury found that Century Blinds, a California blind manufacturer, a subsidiary of Hunter Douglas, with a large presence in Salt Lake City, Utah, manufactured corded blinds across the country for several years without putting a “no additional cost” tilt wand on their blinds, as opposed to tilt cord, which Century Blinds knew was a strangulation hazard to small children. Century Blinds also manufactured corded blinds without providing cord cleats which should…
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November 02, 2020
Pledge to Stay Safe to Stay Open
Our Firm has taken the Pledge to Stay Safe to Stay Open! Here is a link where you can take the Pledge too: Stay Open Utah
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October 05, 2020
Partner Alan W. Mortensen Earns ABOTA Membership
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 29, 2020 — Alan W. Mortensen, a named partner of the Salt Lake City-based firm DEWSNUP/KING/OLSEN/WOREL/HAVAS/MORTENSEN, PC, has been accepted into the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). ABOTA dedicates itself to the preservation and promotion of the Seventh Amendment, which guarantees the right to civil jury trials. Members in this prestigious invitation-only group must have tried a minimum of 10 civil jury trials to conclusion. More than 7,600 lawyers and judges are involved in ABOTA chapters in all 50 states. "ABOTA is one of the nation's most effective organizations in championing the ethics, professionalism and principles of the legal profession, and I'm honored to be part of this select group," Mr. Mortensen said. One of the most active trial lawyers at DEWSNUP/KING/OLSEN/WOREL/HAVAS/MORTENSEN Mr. Mortensen has been the lead attorney on numerous cases – including aviation and truck accidents as well as insurance bad faith claims –…
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September 15, 2020
Coronavirus Office Precautions
Dewsnup King Olsen Worel Havas Mortensen takes the health and safety of its employees and its clients very seriously. We are doing our part to keep everyone safe and to contribute to the community’s efforts to do the same, while remaining available to serve our clients. Our office is open, with enhanced precautions and sanitation measures to prevent contact with, or the spread of, the coronavirus. The following measures have been implemented for the safety of our employees and visitors. We check employee temperatures regularly, require frequent hand-cleansing and sanitization, disinfect high touch surfaces frequently, provide face masks, maintain social distancing, and limit the size of groups gathering in the office. All visitors will be screened for recent illness or exposure, have their temperatures checked, and be asked to sanitize their hands and wear a face mask. Masks are available for any visitor who needs one. Using these measures we…
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August 10, 2020
Red Onion Salmonella Outbreak
Red Onion Salmonella Outbreak Sickens 90 in Utah, DKOW’s Salt Lake City Lawyers Are Here to Help Salt Lake City’s premier plaintiff’s trial law firm, DKOW, has teamed up with The Lange Law Firm’s National Salmonella Lawyer to help Utahn’s injured in the Red Onion Salmonella Outbreak. The Salmonella Onion Outbreak has sickened 90 people in Utah. Nationally 640 people have been infected with Salmonella from onions. 85 people have been hospitalized. People from all across the United States and Canada have called our Salmonella Lawyer about the Onion outbreak. Utah Red Onion Salmonella Outbreak Will Continue to Grow At least 90 people in Utah have contracted Salmonella from red onions. Salmonella Lawyer Jory Lange says, "This is already the biggest Salmonella outbreak of 2020. It is likely to continue to grow. Thompson International recalled its contaminated onions just last Friday. Many people still have these recalled onions in their homes. There's a real…
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June 04, 2020
Salt Lake County v. Volkswagen 9th Circuit Reversal
The firm brought a law suit on behalf of Salt Lake County against Volkswagen for damages caused by its tampering with emissions controls on its diesel vehicles from 2008 to 2015. Its tampering caused VW cars to emit up to 40 times more nitrogen oxides than the law allowed, in one of the jurisdictions with the worst air quality in the United States. The case was consolidated with other cases in a multi-district litigation in the Northern District of California. The federal district court threw the case out, finding that the County’s claims were preempted by federal law. The County appealed, and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently reversed, reinstating Salt Lake County’s claims. Colin King and Paul Simmons represented the County. They were joined in the appeal by Peter Stris and John Stokes of the California firm Stris & Maher.
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May 19, 2020
Trucking Case Settlement
Lance Milne, along with co-counsel, successfully settled a very difficult and hotly contested trucking collision case against a Utah trucking company and its truck driver. The collision resulted in the death of a 67-year old man, and was settled in the amount of $2 million.
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May 18, 2020
Wrongful Death of a Minor Resolved
DKOWHM is honored to work with Alan Mortensen and Lance Milne, who favorably resolved a Utah wrongful death case of the loss of a minor child in the amount of $2,000,000.
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May 14, 2020
$1.1 Million Dollar Settlement
DKOWHM congratulates Alan Mortensen and Christopher Cheney for their settlement of a trucking case. The crash happened on I-80, and after months of litigation, they settled for $1.1 million in the Wyoming Federal District Court.
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