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- The PGH Way
  
  The PGH Way is simple: We counsel, we advocate, we litigate.
  
  With over 100 years of combined experience, the attorneys at Prince Glover Hayes have the reputation of being knowledgeable, hard- working courtroom lawyers who are devoted to their clients.
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  Prince Glover Hayes was established in 1979 by Senior Partner Robert F. Prince in the Prince-Searcy Building in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. We are a civil litigation firm concentrating in personal injury, environmental law, and insurance fraud. Under the leadership of its Senior Partner, the firm has earned some of the largest jury verdicts ever awarded in the state of Alabama.
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- Client Testimonials
  
  “If anyone ever needed an attorney and a friend in the case of an accident, I would deeply recommend Prince Glover Hayes Law Firm.” Pat McGhee, former client
  
  PGH serves clients throughout Alabama and is dedicated to providing first-rate civil litigation in the area of personal injury, environmental law and insurance fraud. Located in the heart of Tuscaloosa our law firm is close to the University of Alabama and is easily accessible. Here is what some of our clients have said.
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Our Areas of Practice
- Car Accident
  
  HAVE YOU BEEN INJURED DUE TO AN AUTO ACCIDENT?
  
  Our Tuscaloosa personal injury law firm has the resources to hire the experts necessary to get to the bottom of exactly how collisions take place. Determining the cause of collisions requires bringing in professionals to investigate the accident, talk to witnesses, inspect the cars and trucks involved, and examine the scene to gather evidence.
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- Insurance Fraud
  
  HAVE YOU BEEN A VICTIM OF INSURANCE FRAUD?
  
  Prince Glover Hayes has carved a special niche in the complex area of Insurance Fraud and Bad Faith and is a West Alabama leader in representing clients who are victims of unfair settlements or wrongfully denied claims. We never represent insurance companies and only represent individuals who have been treated unfairly by their insurance carriers.
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- Defective Products
  
  HAVE YOU BEEN INJURED DUE TO A DEFECTIVELY DESIGNED OR MANUFACTURED PRODUCT? WERE YOU INJURED BECAUSE OF INADEQUATE INSTRUCTIONS OR WARNINGS REGARDING THE USE OF A PRODUCT?
  
  The attorneys at PGH have handled a wide variety of lawsuits involving defective products.
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- Personal Injury
  
  HAVE YOU BEEN INJURED BY SOMEONE ELSE’S ACTIONS?
  
  While car collisions are the most common type of personal injury case, we also handle other types of personal injury including slip-and-fall, injuries at home and work, premises liability, product liability and general negligence cases.
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- Camp Lejeune Personal Injury Attorneys
  
  HAVE YOU OR A LOVED ONE DEVELOPED CANCERS AND OTHER DETRIMENTAL HEALTH EFFECTS AFTER LIVING AT CAMP LEJEUNE BETWEEN 1953-1987?
  
  Camp Lejeune's drinking water was contaminated with several harmful chemicals, including benzene, vinyl chloride, trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE) between 1953 and 1987. Estimates state that the United States Marine Corp Base's water quality affected over a million military members, civilian employees and their children. The United States Government denied responsibility for the high illness rates on the North Carolina base for a long time.
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- Mass Torts
  
  WHAT IS A MASS TORT?
  
  Mass torts are civil actions that have many plaintiffs involved against one or several defendant corporations. If a toxic chemical is released and an entire neighborhood is impacted, each neighbor may have different injuries (one neighbor may have experienced skin rashes and another may have experienced respiratory problems). Since they weren’t injured in the same way, it is difficult to form one class for a class action suit. These types of situations are handled as mass tort actions.
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- Truck Wrecks
- Environmental
  
  HAVE YOU BEEN EXPOSED TO A TOXIC SUBSTANCE?
  
  Through successful prosecution, Prince Glover Hayes has gained a national reputation for prevailing in toxic tort and environmental litigation cases. We understand the immense challenge of protecting families and land from environmental abuse and we take that challenge seriously. Toxic tort and environmental litigation is an extremely complex area of law, often requiring scientific experts, such as toxicologists and certified industrial hygienists to provide analysis and evaluation. Our years of experience in this area have assisted us in establishing teams of qualified experts, fundamental not only in proving environmental negligence and abuse, but also in serving our commitment to justice. By securing significant verdicts and settlements against large corporations involved in toxic abuse, we create a safer world.
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- Wrongful Death
  
  HAVE YOU LOST A LOVED ONE BECAUSE OF SOMEONE ELSE’S ACTIONS?
  
  When someone is killed as a result of another person’s negligence or wrongdoing, his or her family is confronted with a devastating loss. Oftentimes, this loss is accompanied by financial stress, especially when the deceased was the key income provider. The Alabama Wrongful Death Statute is unique in that any money damages awarded are entirely punitive (designed to punish the wrongdoer), rather than compensatory. However, any recovery by the family (or other designated personal representative) can, of course, be used to compensate for lost income, lost future earnings and to offset expenses. On an emotional level, a wrongful death lawsuit brings not only justice, but also closure because the family knows steps have been taken to prevent others from experiencing a similar fate at the hands of those responsible.
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- Referral Advantage
  
  We are humbled by the fact that a very large number of our cases are referred to us by past or current clients and by other attorneys across Alabama and the Southeast. Learn what you can expect by referring to us.
  
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- Testimonials from Attorneys
  
  “The Prince Glover Hayes law firm is probably the most respected, efficient, dedicated and caring law firm that I have been associated with. The staff is always professional and the attorneys do everything possible to ensure success for their clients.” Horace Kynard, Esquire
  
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Prince Glover Hayes was established in 1979 by Senior Partner Robert F. Prince in the Prince-Searcy Building in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. We are a civil litigation firm concentrating in personal injury, environmental law, and insurance fraud. Under his leadership, the firm has earned some of the largest jury verdicts ever awarded in the state of Alabama. Our firm has taken on powerful special interests, including large insurance companies, large trucking companies, and corporations with lots of money to spend on their lawyers and their experts. Our verdicts and settlements prove that we are not afraid of these special interests and that we will fight all the way to the courthouse if we have to in order to make sure our clients get the justice they deserve.

Here are examples of some of our larger verdicts and settlements:

$43.8 MILLION-Harmful Gasoline Fumes (Hale County)

$40 MILLION- Harmful Exposure in Workplace

$20 MILLION- Alabama Farmers Wrongfully Denied Insurance Benefits

$15.5 MILLION-18 Wheeler Slammed into Car and Broke Driver’s Leg (Federal Court) (Surpassed the largest personal injury verdict in Tuscaloosa County, which had been set by Robert Prince in 1999)

$8.75 MILLION-Product Failure Kills Person after 4 Years of Suffering

$8.3 MILLION-Insurance Fraud Verdict

$7.35 MILLION-Alabama Farmers Wrongfully Denied Insurance Benefits

$7 MILLION-Wrongful Death Settlement in 18-Wheeler Case With Evidence of Distracted Driving

$6.75 MILLION- Verdict in Pickens County For Breach of Contract, Fraud, Fraudulent Suppression

$6.3 MILLION-Alabama Truck Driver Injured at Industrial Site in Michigan

$6.1 MILLION- Two Clients Rear-Ended by Tractor Trailer

$6 MILLION- Railroad Wrongful Death Settlement

$6 MILLION- Personal Injury Settlement Involving a Railroad Workplace Injury

$5.5 MILLION- Verdict in Hale County Awarded to the Family of a Man who Died when a Crane Toppled Over Onto Him.

$4.2 MILLION- Two Burned Workers Get Settlement

$3.8 MILLION- Settlement of Breach of Contract Lawsuit

$3.8 MILLION- Wrongful Death Settlement in Bessemer, Alabama

$3.5 MILLION- Verdict in Case Where a Truck Driver Killed a Man (At that time, the largest personal injury verdict rendered by a Tuscaloosa County jury)

$3 MILLION-3 Wheeler Kills Boy (Hale County)

$2.85 MILLION-Settlement for Neighborhood Residents Who Were Exposed to Toxic Odors and Fumes

$2.75 MILLION-Victims of Crash with Overloaded Log Truck

$2.5 MILLION- Poorly Designed Vehicle Injures Man

Over $2.5 MILLION- Worker Killed While Using Defective Equipment

$2.49 MILLION- Settlement in a Product Liability Case.

$2.1 MILLION- Settlement in a Product Liability Case in Fayette County (Client Suffered Amputation)

$2 MILLION-Drug Using Driver Injures Man (Tuscaloosa County)

$2 MILLION-Coal Miner/Rescue Team Member Badly Burned

$2 MILLION- Settlement Involving 18 Wheeler

$2 MILLION- Settlement for Family of Man Killed in a Workplace Accident

$2 MILLION- Partial Settlement for Occupational Exposure to Toxic Chemicals

$1.9 MILLION- Worker Badly Burned due to Explosion Caused by Defective Product

$1.87 MILLION- Poultry Farmers Denied Insurance Benefits

$1.8 MILLION- Environmental Class Action Against A Neighborhood Polluter

$1.75 MILLION-Tractor Trailer Injury after Poor Maintenance

$1.7 MILLION- Settlement of Case Involving 18 Wheeler

$1.65 MILLION- Settlement in a Real Estate Contract Dispute

$1.6 MILLION- Wrongful Death Settlement (Jefferson County)

$1.6 MILLION- Wrongfully Denied Insurance Benefits

$1.55 MILLION- Struck By A Vehicle That Drove Into A Storefront

$1.5 MILLION- Trucking Company Negligent Hiring

$1.5 MILLION- Shareholder’s Agreement Was Not Upheld

$1.5 MILLION- Wrongful Death Involving An Apartment Fire

$1.5 MILLION- Settlement of Lawsuit Involving Client Whose Vehicle Was Struck By A Separated Brake Drum From An 18-Wheeler

$1.45 MILLION- Verdict in Pickens County, Alabama for Fraud, Fraudulent Suppression and Breach of Contract

Over $1.4 MILLION- Worker Badly Burned due to Explosion Caused by Defective Part

$1.4 MILLION- Trucking Company Fire Kills Man

$1.37 MILLION- Car Wreck Case Which Caused Traumatic Brain Injury

$1.3 MILLION- Speeding Dump Truck Kills Man

$1.25 MILLION- Settlement in Bad Faith Case

Over $1 MILLION Settlement Involving a Workplace Accident Resulting in the Death of Employee

$1.1 MILLION- Environmental Settlement (Hale County)

$1.1 MILLION –Settlement in an 18 Wheeler Case

$1.053 MILLION- Settlement in 18 Wheeler Case

$1 MILLION- Wrongful Death, Pedestrian Struck and Killed

$1 MILLION-Victim of Crash with Speeding Tractor Trailer

$1 MILLION- Settlement for Family of Man Killed by a Commercial Tractor at his Workplace

$1 MILLION- Settlement for Family of Man Killed at his Workplace

$1 MILLION- Personal Injury Settlement With Evidence of Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol

$1 MILLION- Client Seriously Injured When Adverse Driver Ran a Stop Sign

$999,000.00 Settlement Involving a Tractor Trailer Running a Red Light

$965,000- Settlement in Car Wreck Case

$940,000 Settlement in Breach of Contract case.

Over $900,000 Settlement in Motorcycle Accident.

$875,000- Alabama Farmers Wrongly Denied Insurance Benefits

$775,000- Insurance Agency Breach of Contract

$650,000 Settlement Involving a Tractor Trailer

$625,000- 18-Wheeler Ran a Red Light, Colliding with Client

$600,000 Settlement Involving a Telehandler Loader

$600,000 Settlement For Client Who Was Rear-Ended by Another Automobile

$550,000 Settlement in Toxic Exposure Case.

$515,000- Settlement Involving A Bad Wreck, Trapping Driver Inside Their Car

$500,000- Fraud Settlement Involving Refusing To Pay For Products

$500,000- Pedestrian Hit by Car

$495,000 Settlement in Toxic Exposure Case.

$488,000 Settlement 18 Wheeler Crashed into Convenience Store

$470,000.00 Mold Exposure Case

$450,000 Tractor Trailer Rear-Ended Person

$425,000 Settlement in a Workplace Injury Case Involving Defective Equipment

$400,000 18-Wheeler Rear Ended Client