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New York Personal Injury Attorney
Veteran personal injury attorney Ed Abel once asked a client who was burned over 97 percent of his body in an oil field explosion how he withstood the stares he got in public.
The Oklahoma State University student told Abel that he had to learn that “I'm not my neighbor's greatest concern.” The man dining next to him in a restaurant, for example, is far more worried about his family, job or something else.
Those words stuck with Abel, who would go on to lose his sight to diabetic type 1 retinopathy. He has been totally blind for some 20 years, and hasn't driven or read for at least 35.
Despite his own disability, Abel, 75, has tried more than 300 cases over the 52 years he's practiced; for many, he was blind or visually impaired. He not only has argued cases in Oklahoma, but also across towns and counties in California, Texas, North Dakota, Ohio and elsewhere, and won some 90 percent, he said.
Abel's biggest verdict was $10 million against Black & Decker Corp. for a faulty electric wrench that caused the explosion involving the OSU student. Most recently, a jury — in a case he helped try two and a half years ago — returned an initial $15 million verdict for an oil field worker and married father of three who lost an arm when a crane overturned on him.
