After
a long and difficult struggle, partners Larry Lahman and Bill Shaw
of Mitchell DeClerck recently concluded the distribution of over $1
Million we recovered for landowners who were damaged by the negligence
of a crew replacing power lines in northwestern Oklahoma.
In
1996 the crew, while working in the middle of a dry grass pasture
during record drought conditions and 40 mile per hour winds, caused a
massive fire. That wildfire raged over several days, burning tens of
thousands of acres in three counties in Oklahoma and Kansas.
The wildfire is pictured at the left which ultimately swept over
nearly 100,000 acres of range and farm land.
Fortunately
no lives were lost nor was there serious personal injury. Amazingly
none of the cattle shown in the photograph at the right were injured.
The Firm represented the "class" in a class action filed in 1996.
Mitchell DeClerck has recovered nearly $10 Million for classes we
have represented in the last three years.