After a long and difficult struggle, Larry and his partner E.W. "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. Larry and the Firm have recovered nearly $10 Million for classes they have represented in the last three years.