Langdale Vallotton is pleased to announce that partner, Pope Langdale and associate, Jimmy Miller obtained a $760,000.00 verdict on behalf of the family of Dominic Barros, who disappeared with 3 others while fishing off Keaton Beach in November, 2003. Many local citizens will remember this tragic event that occurred when 4 friends left to go fishing from Keaton Beach Marina in November, 2003, never returned, and their boat was found capsized approximately 5 days later 51 miles out into the Gulf of Mexico. Although the local authorities and the U.S. Coast Guard searched for days, no bodies were ever found. Langdale Vallotton filed suit against the captain and owner of the boat who was also lost at sea under the theory that the captain was negligent in taking his boat out into sea conditions which were predicted to build later in the day, and which we claimed were unsafe, and which caused the boat to capsize leading ultimately to the death of all of the occupants. After a one week trial in Lowndes County State Court, a Lowndes County jury agreed with us and found the captain liable under the Death on the High Seas Act and awarded the family pecuniary losses that they had suffered as a result of the loss of Dominic Barros, a husband and father of two. This is one of the largest verdicts rendered in Lowndes County State Court.