Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death
  Roehl represented Tiffany Dugan Brosch, the infant daughter of Tim Brosch, a flight nurse killed when the University of New Mexico Hospital’s Lifeguard One helicopter crashed en route to Taos, New Mexico, following a snowstorm on Super Bowl Sunday, 1985. Roehl sued EMS Helicopters and its owner, Ed Zimmer, for negligent and reckless failure to maintain the helicopter. Roehl obtained a jury verdict of $2,000,000, the second highest jury award ever for a single wrongful death in New Mexico. Dugan v. EMS Helicopters, Inc. 915 F.2d 1428, 1430 (10th Cir. 1990).

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  That was the largest jury verdict in a personal injury case in New Mexico history at that time as well as the largest settlement ever obtained in a personal injury case in New Mexico.
• Medical Malpractice
  As well as products liability cases, Roehl has extensive experience in medical malpractice. Roehl was the lead counsel for UNM Hospital and its affiliated Medical School for its medical malpractice cases for a period of 17 years. Roehl is the author of the only published law review article on medical malpractice in New Mexico.
• Auto Accidents