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词条 Kip A. Petroff
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  1. Background and education

  2. Recognition

  3. Personal life

  4. References

{{Orphan|date=May 2018}}Kip A. Petroff is a Texas trial lawyer and is the founding partner of Petroff & Associates. His firm made its name handling plaintiffs' litigation, including representing clients suing blood banks for negligent screening of blood donors[1] and suing the manufacturers of defective breast implants.[2] However, he is best known for representing clients in lawsuits filed against American Home Products Corporation (later purchased by Wyeth) for heart valve injuries and other injuries arising from two diet drugs Wyeth marketed, Pondimin, and Redux (and the diet drug combination referred to as "Fen-Phen").[3]

Mr. Petroff is also currently co-lead counsel with a group of law firms representing hundreds of Tarrant County, Texas homeowners against several natural gas companies in the Barnett Shale.[4]

Background and education

Petroff graduated from Notre Dame Law School in 1983. He is the founder and senior partner of the law firm Petroff & Associates, based in Dallas, Texas. Petroff is board certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in both personal injury and civil trial law. He is licensed to practice before the Texas Supreme Court and the Eastern District of Texas. He is a member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association,[5] the Dallas Bar Association,[6] and the American Association for Justice,[7] and in 2009 was elected as a fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation.[8]

Recognition

In August 1999, the firm represented a plaintiff against American Home Products Corporation in the first case involving Fen-Phen to go to trial worldwide. A landmark case in Fen-Phen litigation, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in excess of twenty three million dollars.[3] {Twenty million dollars of this verdict was for punitive damages and three million three hundred thousand dollars was awarded for pain and suffering and medical expenses. The client's damages were for injury to her aortic and mitral heart valves. The client did not actually receive any money after the initial verdict. Due largely to the uncertainty of this verdict being upheld on appeal, the client settled her case on September 30, 1999, before a Judgment was entered on the verdict. On that date, the client settled her case for one million nine hundred ninety seven dollars plus Court Costs in the amount of eleven thousand four hundred eighty five dollars. Attorney's fees in the amount of seven hundred ninety eight thousand eight hundred dollars and litigation expenses in the amount of one hundred sixty five thousand eight hundred twenty nine dollars were withheld from the settlement.}[9]

Petroff has been a guest on numerous national television shows including Good Morning America, Sixty Minutes II,[10] CNN, Burden of Proof, Frontline,[11] Fox News, and NBC Nightly News. Petroff also has been featured in the following national print media: The Wall Street Journal,[12] The New York Times,[13] USA Today, Time Magazine, U.S. News & World Report,[14] Lawyers Weekly USA,[15] and numerous others.

Petroff has been selected as a "Texas Super Lawyer"—an honor awarded to less than five percent of all lawyers in Texas—in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.[16] ("Super Lawyers" is a Thomson Reuters service).

Personal life

Petroff lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife Suzi Zimmerman Petroff. He and Suzi are the founders of New Hope Foundation, a Dallas-based nonprofit dedicated to improving the living conditions of underprivileged families.[17]

References

1. ^J.K. and Susie L. Wadley Research Institute and Blood Bank, d/b/a/ The Blood Center at Wadley, Appellant v. Esther Beeson, individually and as representative of the Estate of Thomas W. Beeson, and Bruce Beeson, Appellees (On Appeal from the 101st Judicial District Court. Dallas County, Texas. Trial Court Cause No. 89-04827-E. Filed June 11, 1992)
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940414&slug=1905505|title=Business - Women Wonder If Settlement Over Silicone Is Enough - Seattle Times Newspaper|website=Community.seattletimes.nwsource.com|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
3. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/17/business/american-home-settles-fen-phen-lawsuit.html|title=American Home Settles Fen-Phen Lawsuit|date=17 September 1999|accessdate=29 May 2018|website=Nytimes.com}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://blogs.star-telegram.com/barnett_shale/bonus_payments/|title=Fort Worth Breaking News, Sports, Weather & More - Fort Worth Star-Telegram|website=Blogs.star-telegram.com|accessdate=29 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717210910/http://blogs.star-telegram.com/barnett_shale/bonus_payments/#|archive-date=2011-07-17|dead-url=yes|df=}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ttla.com/|title=Welcome - Texas Trial Lawyers Association|website=Ttla.com|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dallasbar.org/|title=Dallas Bar Association|website=Dallasbar.org|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.justice.org/|title=The American Association For Justice|website=The American Association For Justice|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.txbf.org/|title=Texas Bar Foundation – Funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas|website=Txbf.org|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
9. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.petroffassociates.com/about.cfm# |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320015427/http://petroffassociates.com/about.cfm# |archive-date=2012-03-20 |dead-url=yes |df= }}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/02/09/60II/main32209.shtml|title=Investigating Fen-Phen|website=Cbsnews.com|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/prescription/etc/script.html|title=Transcript - Dangerous Prescription - FRONTLINE - PBS|website=Pbs.org|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
12. ^Wall Street Journal – Interactive Edition, September 28, 1999. American Home Seeks Settlement as Holes in Fen-Phen Defense Show. Laura Johannes and Robert Langreth (staff reporters)
13. ^The New York Times, August 7, 1999 – Twenty Three Million Dollars Awarded in Suit Against Maker of Diet Drug
14. ^U.S. News & World Report – Weight-loss Wars – A spate of deaths and a raft of lawsuits over diet drugs – February 15, 1999
15. ^Lawyers Weekly USA – September 16, 1999. Twenty Three Million Dollar Fen Phen Verdict may Open Doors to Bigger Settlements (by Christa Zevitas)
16. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.superlawyers.com/texas/lawyer/Kip-A-Petroff/ec86ef0f-11ad-495d-a3fb-d9a016a89e46.html|title=Top Rated Dallas, TX General Litigation Attorney - Kip Petroff - Super Lawyers|website=Super Lawyers|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
17. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.newhopefoundation.com/about.cfm# |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111119002740/http://www.newhopefoundation.com/about.cfm# |archive-date=2011-11-19 |dead-url=yes |df= }}
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