John Osborne
Tucson Litigation OfficeTucson Personal Injury Dept. Stanford University University of Texas at Austin School of Law |
Contact Information Phone: 1-800-843-3245 Email: inquiry@1800theeagle.com |
John Osborne devotes his practice exclusively to plaintiffs' personal injury law. He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest possible peer-reviewed rating indicating very high to preeminent legal ability and very high ethical standards. He is a legal specialist certified by the State Bar of Arizona in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation.
Mr. Osborne actively litigates his own cases. They include large catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, as well as cases that may not involve catastrophic injuries but that involve unusual issues or problems that require his direct attention. He receives many personal referrals as well. In addition to handling his own active caseload, Mr. Osborne manages nearly twenty-five attorneys who also devote their law practices exclusively to the representation of injured consumers.
Examples of Mr. Osborne’s catastrophic injury-type cases are Yniguez v. DaimlerChrysler, a case Mr. Osborne tried to a jury in Nogales, Arizona. The jury award totaled $6.2 Million before application of comparative fault, and over $3 Million afterwards. Another is Rosser v. Greenehaven Development, where a jury awarded Mr. Osborne's clients a verdict in excess of $1 Million on behalf of a family whose young son asphyxiated in a sand pit in Northern Arizona. This was one of the largest civil verdicts in that region of Arizona.
Many of Mr. Osborne’s cases involve claims against major manufacturers that result in confidential settlements. One example is Harlow v. DaimlerChrysler, resolved days before trial in Federal District Court in Marshall, Texas, in August, 2006. Mr. Osborne received confidential settlements with many major manufacturers, including, but not limited to, Bridgestone/Firestone, Yokohama Tire Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors Corporation.
One example of Mr. Osborne’s wrongful death cases is Leonard & Shirley Moody vs. Pima County and Michael Ellsworth Baker and Connie Baker, a married couple, tried in Pima County Superior Court in Tucson, Arizona, in November, 2007. Mr. Osborne received a $ 9 Million award (before application of comparative fault) for Mr. & Mrs. Moody for the wrongful death of their 14-year old daughter, Ebonee, who was struck and killed by a drunk driver (Mr. Baker). The central legal issue in this case was the comparative fault between the drunk driver who struck Ebonee, the County who allowed an unreasonably dangerous roadway condition to exist, and Ms. Moody, who was crossing a darkened roadway outside of a marked crosswalk. The total recovery for the Moodys well exceeded the County’s settlement offers.
Mr. Osborne has an active appellate practice. In recent years he prosecuted a number of appeals. An example of his appeals work is Philadelphia Indemnity v. Barrera, where the Arizona Supreme Court reversed adverse rulings from both the trial and intermediate appellate courts to award Mr. Osborne's clients hundreds of thousands of dollars of additional benefits from the defendants' excess insurance company, who denied coverage.
Mr. Osborne also directed hundreds of cases in federal multi-district litigation involving defective substances. For example, Mr. Osborne personally directed the firm’s litigation against Showa Denko, Inc. arising from this company’s manufacture of a defective health food supplement, L-Tryptophan.
Mr. Osborne is past president of the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association and the Tucson Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is admitted to practice before state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court. He is also Assistant Commissioner of Region 580 of the American Youth Soccer Organization ("AYSO"). In his spare time, he is an avid pilot and devotes time as a pilot/interpreter to the Tucson Chapter of the Flying Samaritans, a charitable group who run medical clinics for the impoverished in Mexico. Mr. Osborne is fluent in Spanish. He is married to Diana, an architect in Tucson, and they have two adult children.
