Product Liability/Negligence - underground electrical switch explosion. Burns to 7 year old boy and 6 year old girl. $4,545,000
Sexual Molestation - winningest high school football coach in schools history has affair with student as school administators negligently ignore history of past complaints against coach. Emotional distress to 15 year old student. $ Confidential
Construction Accident - 41 year old painter falls from a catwalk with a missing guardrail. Fractured left elbow, wrist and pelvis. $1,788,361
Police Misconduct -unarmed 15 year old shot by police when he turns into an alley while heading home. injury to stomach, liver and spleen $1,400,000
Negligence - School fails to provide eye protection for supervised hockey game. Eye injury to 7 year old boy. $1,375,000
Auto Accident - freeway collision. wrongful death to 69 year old father of adult son. $1,200,000
Auto Accident - intersection collision. cerebral concussion with nerve damage to 16 year old girl. $1,130,000
Auto Accident - freeway collision. hairdresser-age 55 neck and back sprain. homemaker-fractured leg. $925,946
Restaurant Negligence - bouncer slams 23 year old patron to the ground. brain injury resulting in manic-depression. $900,000
Dental Malpractice - right lingual nerve severed from careless lower wisdom tooth extraction. permanent numbness to right half of tongue and taste alteration to 32 year old courier. $ 894,305 ( highest known jury verdict at the time in California for this type of case. CA. law requires courts to reduce medical malpractice verdicts to $250,000 for non-economic damages)
Medical Malpractice - morphine overdose in hospital after back surgery. wrongful death of 31 year old finance manager. $830,000
Dental Malpractice - lingual nerves severed from careless lower wisdom tooth extrations. Permanent tongue numbness and taste alteration to 37 year old Maryland police officer. Reported to be the highest dental malpractice verdict at the time in the Commonwealth of Virginia. $750,000
Medical Malpractice - hospitals negligent failure to resusitate 5 year old heart patient. Wrongful death. $624,774
Dental Malpractice - right lingual nerve severed from careless lower wisdom tooth extraction. Permanent numbness to right half of tongue and taste alteration to 30 year old graphic designer. $602,506
Construction Accident -makeshift scaffolding collapse. concussion, wrists, right hand and collarbone fractures to 46 year old journeyman framer. $525,000
Employment Discrimination - Insurance company supervisor demotes female african american claims manager. Supervisors racial slurs witnessed by coworkers. $500,000
Premises Liability - failure to safeguard steam pipe. burns to 28 year old chemical cleaner. $500,000
Negligence - rancher carelessly moving cattle on highway resuting in auto collision. herniated cervical disc and wrist injury to 64 year old man. $500,000
Auto Accident - freeway collision. 35 year old real estate agent-closed head injury resulting in migraine headaches. 30 year old sales rep-right elbow and knee trauma $485,000
Auto/Pedestrian Accident -Truck runs over woman pushing a shopping cart in supermarket parking lot. Wrongful death of 68 year old mother of 4 adult children. $420,000
Auto/Pedestrian Accident - 5 year old boy skipping across street heading to playground struck by auto. wrongful death. $500,000
Elder Abuse - 72 year old woman in convelescent hospital is dropped while being transferred by a patient lift from bed to wheelchair. fractured left femur. $425,000
Premises Liability - homeowners brickwork pattern conceals stepdown resulting in fall to house guest. brain injury resulting in loss of smell and taste alteration. $400,000
Product Liability - excessive heat to floor of truck. burns to foot of a 29 year old woman. $400,000
Auto Accident - freeway collision. 38 year old nurse-cervical vertebre fracture. 53 year old homemaker-fractured ribs, shoulder and collarbone. 19 year old dancer- knee injury. $390,000
Premises Liability - electical panel box explosion. wrongful death to 34 year old electician. $362,500
Auto v. Pedestrian - van strikes 6 year old girl riding her bike down her driveway into the street. lacerated scalp, liver and kidney. fractured skull and ribs. $370,000
Medical Malpractice - patients duodenum cut during gallstone surgery. peritonitis to 49 year old aerospace engineer. $350,459
Premises Liability - hotel casino fails to warn that moving walkway is ending. patron falls because she is standing sideways looking out the picture windows at the tropical scenery. herniated lumbar disc. no surgery. $330,000
Premesis Liability - plumber falls through collapsing floor. torn labrum to shoulder. $316,512
Auto Accident - sheriff in pursuit of drunk driver cuts corner in residential neighborhood striking car of 20 year old man as he is pulling out of parking space. annular tear to disc in low back. $305,000
Auto Accident - U.S. Marine truck on wrong side of road causes head on collision. herniated disc to neck-no surgery to 36 year old heavy equipment operator. $300,000
Elder Abuse - elder care facility allows 80 year old patient with dementia to wander from the facility where they were supposed to be watching her. fractured hip from fall. $300,000
Auto Accident - rear end collision. 50 year old electronic technician. herniated cervical disc surgery. $300,000
Medical Malpractice - 34 year old author develops staph infection from doctors ontaminated injection.chronic osteomyelitis left shoulder. $300,000
Auto Accident - rear end collision. cubital tunnel syndrome-no surgery to 34 year old dentist. $275,000
Medical Malpractice - lining of lung punctured during exploratory surgery of 66 year old quadraplegic. Wrongful death. $270,000
Premises Liability -while pouring hot grease into disposal tank fry cook slips on grease leaking from hole in bottom of tank. burn injuries. $255,000
Dental Malpractice - severed lingual nerve from wisdom tooth extraction.24 year old mortgage broker- permanent numbness and taste alteration to right half of tongue.$250,000
Dental Malpractice - lingual nerve branches severed during tongue tie surgery permanent numbness and taste alteration to tip of tongue of 50 year old bank assistant vice-president. $250,000
Insurance Bad Faith - homeowners policy-bad faith denial of property loss from fire. $250,000
Auto Accident - freeway collision. herniated disc low back-surgery.43 year old designer. $250,000
Auto/Pedestrian Accident - 59 year old woman crossing street in marked crosswalk struck by car. Sub-capital fracture of right hip. $200,000
Dog Bite - 10 year old boy bitten by neighbors dog. lost fingernail-sized portion of top of left ear. $175,000
Auto Accident - freeway collision. 63 year old executive director right hand and thumb scar. $172,500
Medical Malpractice - eye doctor fails to timely treat elevated eye pressure after detached retina surgery to 64 year old homemaker. left eye vision loss. $157,500
Auto Accident -collision in parking lot. Annular tear low back to female tax preparer. $150,000
Negligence - bus crashes into house. Property damage. $150, 000
Dental Malpractice - left lingual nerve injury from lower wisdom tooth extraction to 23 year old mountaineer. $150,000
Medical Malpractice - hospital staff leaves hot soup at bedside of 65 year old stroke patient. burns to chest. $150,000
Auto/Pedestrian Accident - Valet driver drives car into 33 year old city treasurer as treasurer is crossing in front of car. anterior cruciate ligament injury to left knee. $144,973
Auto Accident - freeway collision. myofascial pain syndrome to 40 year old bookkeeper. $132,500
Dental Malpractice - right lingual nerve injury from lower wisdom tooth extraction to 32 year old glass company owner. $125,000
Auto Accident - head on collision. 3 fractured ribs and toe injury to 67 year old corporate officer. $100,000