$10 Million
Spinal Cord Injury
A young teenager became a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic due to medical malpractice in an emergency room. Due to this medical malpractice, his spinal meningitis was misdiagnosed, ultimately resulting in catastrophic spinal cord injury.

$4.5 Million
Brain Injury
A 70-year-old woman suffered severe brain injuries from medical malpractice when an ICU nurse, without a doctor’s order, inserted a nasogastric tube in the patient. Due to an earlier surgery, the tube went into the patient’s brain rather than her stomach. This was the only patient assigned to the nurse during that shift. The nurse failed to read the patient’s chart before deciding, on her own, to insert the tube.

$2.6 Million
Brain Injury
An elderly woman went to the emergency room complaining of severe pain due to sickle cell disease. She received improper care for this condition and, as a result of this medical malpractice, suffered brain injury.

$800,000.00
Wrongful Death
An elderly woman died due to complications from a medical procedure.

$2.25 Million
Premises Liability
This is believed to be the highest settlement in Georgia for the swimming pool / drowning death of a toddler. The victim, a three-year-old child, went into the pool area of an apartment complex, fell into the pool, and drowned. The pool gate was defective, did not self-close, and violated the county pool ordinance. The apartment complex had been repeatedly cited for defective pool gates and never made appropriate repairs.

$700,000.00
Car Wreck / Construction Site
A sixteen-year-old girl drifted off the shoulder of a newly repaved road. She encountered a steep drop-off from the road surface to the dirt shoulder causing her to lose control and be killed in a one-car wreck. Since there were no witnesses and the wreck had to be reconstructed from circumstantial evidence, the case was exceedingly difficult. The result helped lead to safer procedures by the Department of Transportation and local governments in maintaining safe roadways.

$800,000.00
Truck Wreck
A tractor-trailer truck driver was killed when the load in the trailer shifted in a turn. The outcome was particularly good since the law of the state of occurrence is that any contributing negligence by the driver precludes a recovery.

$3 Million
Car Wreck
A homemaker in the passenger seat of a car driven by her husband was killed when her husband ran a stop sign and was hit by a speeding State of Georgia vehicle. The jury valued her life at $3 Million and established the important legal principle that the husband’s own negligence did not bar the daughter from recovering for her mother’s death. Judgment was entered for the daughter for $1.5 Million.

$800,000.00
Medical Malpractice
An elderly woman died due to complications from a medical procedure. 

$900,000.00
Railroad / FELA
A railroad worker suffered an on the job back injury. Several years later he died on the operating table while undergoing back surgery.

$14 Million
Brain Injury / Railroad
A husband/father received severe brain injuries in a train/truck wreck that occurred while he was driving home from work. The Plaintiff was stopped at a railroad crossing, when the oncoming train crashed into a tractor-trailer which was blocking the crossing. Flying debris from the collision struck Plaintiff, resulting in severe brain injury.

$7.5 Million
Brain Injury
A 50-year-old man suffered severe brain injuries in an intersection collision when a corporate truck made an improper turn. Prior counsel had advised the clients that a recovery could never exceed $1 Million.

$1.8 Million
Brain Injury
A woman suffered severe brain injury in an intersection collision. As the car in which she was a passenger left an apartment complex, the driver’s view was obscured by a sign that had been erected near the intersection. The sign violated the local sign ordinance and had been reported as dangerous.

$800,000.00
Wrongful Death
A tractor-trailer truck driver was killed when the load in the trailer shifted in a turn. The outcome was particularly good since the law of the state of occurrence is that any contributing negligence by the driver precludes a recovery.

$3 Million
Wrongful Death
A homemaker in the passenger seat of a car driven by her husband was killed when her husband ran a stop sign and was hit by a speeding State of Georgia vehicle. The jury valued her life at $3 Million and established the important legal principle that the husband’s own negligence did not bar the daughter from recovering for her mother’s death. Judgment was entered for the daughter for $1.5 Million.

$14 Million
Truck Wreck / Railroad
A husband/father received severe brain injuries in a train/truck wreck that occurred while he was driving home from work. The Plaintiff was stopped at a railroad crossing, when the oncoming train crashed into a tractor-trailer which was blocking the crossing. Flying debris from the collision struck Plaintiff, resulting in severe brain injury.

$10 Million
Medical Malpractice
A young teenager become a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic due to medical malpractice in an emergency room. Due to this medical malpractice, his spinal meningitis was misdiagnosed, ultimately resulting in catastrophic spinal cord injury.

$7.5 Million
Truck Wreck / Intersection Collision
A 50-year-old man suffered severe brain injuries in an intersection collision when a corporate truck made an improper turn. Prior counsel had advised the clients that a recovery could never exceed $1 Million.

$2.6 Million
Medical Malpractice
An elderly woman went to the emergency room complaining of severe pain due to sickle cell disease. She received improper care for this condition and, as a result of this medical malpractice, suffered brain injury.

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Aviation Liability
A Nashville music industry executive suffered brain injury during a flight when items fell from the overhead bin. The case helped prompt safer airline procedures regarding storage of items during flight. Witnesses for the plaintiff included Tammy Wynette, Charlie Daniels, and Ricky Skaggs.

$1.8 Million
Car Wreck / Intersection Collision
A woman suffered severe brain injury in an intersection collision. As the car in which she was a passenger left an apartment complex, the driver’s view was obscured by a sign that had been erected near the intersection. The sign violated the local sign ordinance and had been reported as dangerous.

$14 Million
Brain Injury / Truck Wreck
A husband/father received severe brain injuries in a train/truck wreck that occurred while he was driving home from work. The Plaintiff was stopped at a railroad crossing, when the oncoming train crashed into a tractor-trailer which was blocking the crossing. Flying debris from the collision struck Plaintiff, resulting in severe brain injury.

$900,000.00
A railroad worker suffered an on-the-job back injury. Several years later he died on the operating table while undergoing back surgery.

$750,000.00
A railroad worker injured his back while attempting to open a defective window on the locomotive.

$740,000.00
A railroad worker injured his back when a stanchion broke loose as he was attempting to climb onto a flat car.

$750,000.00
A railroad worker suffered a back injury when a railroad “cab” driver was involved in a rear-end collision.

$540,000.00
An engineer suffered a back injury when, due to a defective locomotive, he was unable to see and struck a standing car.

$400,000.00
A railroad worker was injured when his train crossed a negligently maintained grade crossing.

$450,000.00
A railroad trainman suffered a shoulder injury when his locomotive turned over on an area of track flooded by recent rains.

$217,000.00
A railroad worker suffered a heat stroke while working a local job during the middle of July. Although there are several instances in which railroads have been found liable for failing to protect workers against extreme cold in northern states, this may be the first instance in which a railroad paid damages for “too hot to work” conditions in the deep South.