After forcing Mr. Lymon through years of contentious litigation and repeatedly denying any wrongdoing, Mr. Lymon employer was forced on cross-examination to admit to multiple failures that caused Mr. Lymon injuries. The employer was forced to admit that his failure to obtain the product instructions manual, failure to install safety shields, and improper instructions to his employees to manually handle the post-hole digger while its auger was spinning (an act expressly warned against in the product manual) were not just negligent, but careless acts. As a result of Mr. Worel expert cross-examination of the defendant and his witnesses, the court was compelled to direct a liability verdict against the defendant, and the jury returned a verdict for $4 million in damages.
