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Verdicts And Settlements
Rick Woods, Attorney In Fayetteville, AR

Rick Woods has more than 24 years of experience providing legal representation to a variety of clients. Below are a few of the cases Rick has acted as a representative to. These cases and their descriptions intend to give prospective clients an understanding of the legal coverage provided by Rick Woods.

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  • Breach Of Fiduciary Duty

    $785,000.00 Breach of Corporate Fiduciary Duty Claim.


    Practice Area:  Corporate.  Date:  August 2018.  Outcome:  Settlement

    Description: Shut out minority shareholder sued for breach of fiduciary duty and failure to pay equal distributions.


  • Playground Construction Accident

    $1,010,000.00 Playground construction site accident – Attractive Nuisance, Failure to Secure Site.


    Practice Area:  Personal Injury.  Date: May 2017.  Outcome:  Mediated Settlement.

    Description:  Playground under construction constituting an attractive nuisance and failure to secure a construction site.  Foreseeable injury could have been averted if proper construction site security had been followed.


  • Toxic Industrial Spill

    $2,385,000.00 Property diminution and annoyance damages from industrial pollution


    Practice Area: Environmental. Date: June 2015 Outcome: Settlement. Description: Collective action involving industrial pollution.  Plaintiffs claimed diminution in value and damages for fear and fright associated with pollution of their collective properties.


  • $550,000.00 settlement property diminution from toxic spill

    Practice Area: Environmental Date: June 2014 Outcome:  Settlement $550,000.000 

    Description: Plaintiff’s property was damaged by petroleum spill.  Property was cleaned up and received no further action letter, but plaintiff asserted diminution from remaining contaminates.


  • $400,000.00 premises liability judgment

    Practice Area: Personal Injury Date: Jan 04, 2012 Outcome: Judgment for $417,000.000 

    Description: Plaintiff injured at resort due to faulty stairwell.


  • Bank of Fayetteville v. First Horizon Home Mortgage

    Practice Area: Banking Date: Sep 15, 2010 Outcome: Trial Court dismissed under principles of collateral estoppel. First Horizon dismissed appeal and paid Bank of Fayetteville’s fees. 

    Description: Bank held mortgage behind First Horizon. Initial suit dismissed with prejudice because objections to evidence were sustained. First Horizon brought second suit, which was defended under defense of res judicata.


  • Parking lot design leads to confidential wrongful death settlement

    Practice Area: Wrongful Death Date: Jan 01, 2008 Outcome: Suit filed, confidential settlement 

    Description: Child killed when struck by vehicle. Design of parking lot in residential complex fostered speeding by drivers in area where children were present and difficult to detect.


  • Confidential Wrongful Death Case

    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice Outcome: Settled 

    Description: Negligence of health care provider leads to confidential settlement for death of an infant.



  • Objecting in Bankruptcy to Discharge of an intentional tort

    Hathorn v. Petty, U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eight Circuit; No. 13-6002 (May 2013).


    Appeal of bankruptcy court’s order granting motion to dismiss adversary proceeding as untimely. The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) concluded that since there was no deadline to file a complaint under 11 U.S.C. 523(a)(3)(B), Plaintiffs had the right to proceed with their complaint to try to prove that they held a debt of a kind described in section 523(a)(6). BAP reversed the bankruptcy court’s order.


  • Internet Jurisdiction Case

    Morris v. Christopher, 2013 Ark. App. 312, 2013 Ark. App. LEXIS 318, 2013 WL 1919585 (Ark. Ct. App. 2013)


    A resident of Hawaii was sued by a resident of Arkansas for defamation. Court found that the exchange of an email between Hawaii resident and resident of Mississippi regarding the Plaintiff did not meet the minimum-contacts test. The email originated in Hawaii and was sent to Defendant’s family in Mississippi. The exercise of jurisdiction would offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice and would result in the Defendant being hauled into Arkansas solely as a result of random, fortuitous, or attenuated contacts.


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