BECAUSE THE RESULTS OBTAINED IN SPECIFIC CASES DEPEND ON A
VARIETY OF FACTORS UNIQUE TO EACH CASE, PAST CASE RESULTS DO NOT
GUARANTEE OR PREDICT A SIMILAR RESULT IN FUTURE CASES UNDERTAKEN
BY A LAWYER OR LAW FIRM.
- Parking lot injury
$ 25,000.00
- Elderly client, initially accused of fraud receives
$25,000 and apology for her foot injury from insurance
company.
- Loading Dock Accident
$ 150,000.00
- Worker fell off dock when trucker pulled suddenly away
from dock during unloading process.
- Hotel Injury
$ 3,000.00
- Headboard fell on patron's hand.
- Skiing Injury
$ 12,500.00
- Skier injures knee as a result of collision with
snowboarder.
- T-bone car accident
$ 12,500.00
- Delayed-onset post-traumatic stress disorder without any physical injuries.
- Infant injured due to flying dump truck tire
$
150,000
- Passenger in car injured when wheel and tire came off dump
truck; airbag struck face causing eye injuries.
- Medical Malpractice
$
10,000 - Newborn's skin grew
over id bracelet after doctor fails to remove child's
bracelet prior to placing child in orthopedic harness.
- Boat Accident
$
862,500 - Bolt broke allowing
onboard motor to enter boat; amputation of lower portion of
left arm.
- Uncle's dog bites niece
$
89,000 - Niece was bitten on
her face while playing with Uncle’s dog.
- Dog attack
$
100,000 - German Shepherd exhibited for
adoption by the S.P.C.A. attacked and bit a child on the
face at a grocery store parking lot.
- Spider Bite
$
18,000 - Man was bitten by spider while staying at motel.
- Miniature golf park accident
$
50,000 - Elderly man
fractured his elbow when he fell backwards off an elevated
putting green that had no safety railing.
- Slippery platform at carnival
$
75,000 - Carnival
patron slipped on wet carnival ride platform and broke her
leg.
- Negligent repair of mountain bike
$
80,000 - Bicyclist
injured knee in mountain trail accident due to negligent
repairs at bike shop.
- Wal-Mart assault and false imprisonment
$
17,000 -
Customer injured when Wal-Mart employees tackled him to the
ground and held him in custody on erroneous assumption that
he had shoplifted.
- Movie theater injury from lighting
$
20,000 - Client
fell and broke her ankle at movie theater because stairway
lighting was turned off.
- Nail salon foot injury
$
20,000 - Woman received a
deep laceration to her foot while receiving a pedicure,
forcing her to limp barefoot down the aisle at her brother’s
wedding the following day.
- Employment mental disability discrimination
$
267,000
- Mentally retarded man harassed by his supervisor suffered
severe emotional distress.
- Homicide
$
100,000 - Farmer shot and killed by his
neighbor during an argument over a bull on the neighbor’s
property.
- Airplane injury
$
60,000 - Passenger injured while using emergency
chute
- Scaffolding fall
$
36,500 - Painter injured back after
falling from scaffolding that was altered by another
contractor.
- Go-cart injury
$
50,000 - Unsupervised minor riding
go-cart at birthday party ran off path into culvert and
injured her face and teeth.
- Fall on store sidewalk
$
40,000 - Lowe’s customer
broke her leg tripping on small mound of dried concrete near
entrance.
- Elderly patient not monitored
$
25,000 - Elderly patient allowed to fall down stairs at home while she
was supposed to be under the watchful eye of a nursing aide.
- Railroad passenger hit by fold-up sink
$
25,000 -
Train passenger suffered concussion from being struck on
head by fold-up sink.
- Low hanging advertising banner
$
53,000 - Elderly
customer hit head on low-hanging banner outside of hardware
store causing her to lose balance and break her arm and hip
in fall.
- Wrong medication
$
40,000 - Long-time patient given
medication to which she was severely allergic; allergies
listed in patient’s chart.
- Blood test improperly done
$
20,000 - Woman having
blood test for life insurance application injured by
repeated needle punctures in wrong area by nurse.
- Missing safety railing causes fall
$
575,000 - Home
inspector for county suffered multiple fractures when he
fell from unprotected second floor landing at house under
construction.
- Martial arts class kicking injury
$
325,000 - Student
at Tae Kwon Do class suffered brain injury from being kicked
in the head by instructor.
- Porch railing failure
$
95,000 - Guest at mobile home
fell and broke his wrist when the handrail on the front
porch gave way.
- Collapsing chair
$
5,000 - Visitor at County
Correctional Facility injured when chair in waiting room
collapsed.
- Restaurant injury from ice machine
$
5,000 - Client
was injured when the lid flew off an ice machine and struck
him in the eye.
- Falling merchandise
$
3,000 - Client was injured when
items stacked on a shelf at Lowe’s fell on him.
- Glass in food
$
500 - Consumer was injured by broken
glass found in a baby food jar.
- Car-jacking
$
25,000 - Good-Samaritan injured when
motorist who flagged him down car-jacked him.
- Wheel fall-off
$
17,000 - Motorist crashed when the
car he just had serviced at Pep Boys lost a wheel.
- Hunting accident
$
71,000 - Hunter mistaken for a deer
was shot by another hunter.
- Wheel falling off car
$
22,500 - Wal-Mart customer
injured in crash after wheel serviced by Wal-Mart fell off
car as he drove away from store.
- Window glass injury
$
8,847 - Home renter cut her hand
when it went through a window in her rented home.
- Lowe’s sidewalk fall
$
10,000 - Shopper injured by
tripping on a wire strung across sidewalk in front of
Lowe’s.
- Lowe’s sidewalk fall
$
10,000 - Shopper injured by
tripping on a wire strung across sidewalk in front of
Lowe’s.
- Falling merchandise at Wal-Mart
$
30,000 - Wal-Mart
employee pushed a filing cabinet off of a top shelf onto
shopper and injured her shoulder.
- Fall in open manhole
$
15,000 - Young girl injured
when she fell into uncovered man hole at apartment building.
- Night club patron hit by falling object
$
15,000 -
Patron in night club injured when sound speaker detached
from ceiling and struck her head.
- Boat sinking, emotional distress
$
47,000 - Boat
passenger suffered emotional distress after being forced to
abandon a boat that caught on fire and sank in the
Chesapeake Bay.
- Wal-Mart cart injury
$
55,000 - Customer broke her leg
when Wal-Mart employee pushed stock cart into her.
- Airplane luggage compartment
$
75,000 - Lap top
computer fell from defective overhead luggage compartment
and hit passenger in head.
- Dog bite attack
$
12,000 - Guest visiting friend’s
home attacked by homeowners 5 dogs.
- Dog attack
$
25,000 - Child attacked and bitten by
neighbor’s dog after getting off school bus.
- Heavy equipment improperly secured on delivery truck
$
22,000 - An improperly secured compressor fell on worker as
he was attempting to unload it from a truck.
- Shopping mall construction fence
$
36,000 - Customer
in shopping mall parking lot struck on head by falling
construction fence.
- Boat pier collapse
$
12,000 - Boater lacerated her leg
when thrown in water by collapsing pier.
- Airport pavement hole
$
45,000 - Passenger at Richmond
International Airport fell and broke her ankle in hidden
hole in pavement.
- Grocery store fall
$
100,000 - Food Lion customer fell
on wet carpet at store entrance of store and injured his
knee. Food Lion manager was caught lying about existence of
warning cones.
- Wet carpet fall
$
25,000 - Client broke her wrist
slipping on wet carpeted stairs during home carpet cleaning.
- Indecent exposure on city bus
$
25,000 - Driver of a
Richmond City bus caused emotional distress to a female
passenger by indecently exposing himself.
- Horse carriage ejection
$
15,000 - Passenger in a
horse carriage in Charleston, South Carolina was thrown from
the carriage when horse spooked by a car back-firing took
off at a gallop.
- Trash bin lid amputation
$
350,000 - Lid from large
trash bin fell on child’s hand amputating a portion of his
finger.
- Balcony collapse at University of Virginia
$
100,000 -
Client sustained broken leg when pinned under a collapsed
balcony of a University of Virginia building during
graduation ceremonies.
- Dog bite
$
15,000 - Child bit in the face by
neighbor’s dog.
- Elevator malfunction
$
975,000 - Client fell down
elevator shaft at work after stepping through open door
expecting car to be there.
- Medical patient injured on transport van
$
67,000 -
Amputee injured while being transported by VanGo when
attendants allowed her to fall off the van on the stump of
her leg.
- Airplane luggage compartment injury
$
30,000 -
Passenger injured when a carry-on bag in an overhead
compartment fell on her head during flight from London to
New York.
- Runaway railcar
$
10,000,000 - City of Richmond
employee received serious and permanent brain and head
injuries when struck by a Norfolk Southern boxcar with
faulty brakes.
- Nursing home rape
$
750,000 - 60-year-old nursing home
resident recovering from stroke was raped by an employee
while he was changing her clothing.
- Injury due to thrown pencil
$
33,000 - 8th grade
student struck in eye with pencil thrown by fellow student.
- Grocery Store Injury
$
40,000 - Boxes fell on patron's
head causing injury.
- Nursing home abuse
$
810,000 - 80-year-old assisted
living resident facility resident shaken violently by an
employee because she failed to get dressed as instructed and
suffered a subdural hematoma leading to her death.
- Hunting injury
$
200,000 - Hunter slipped while
crossing a small creek and accidentally shot fellow hunter
in arm.
- Ambulance passenger injury
$
275,000 - Elderly woman
in an ambulance broke her left arm when the driver swerved
and caused an attendant in the back of the ambulance to fall
onto her.
- Railroad passenger injury
$
135,000 - A passenger
slipped and broke her left leg while boarding an Amtrak
train in the rain when Amtrak personnel rushed her onto the
car.
- Plane crash
$
100,000 - Fatality from a small engine
plane crash en route to New York.
- Special equipment operations,
tractor-trailer driver
injured while attaching trailer
$
350,000 - Truck driver
helping to attach trailer to a tractor at a job site
received internal injuries from being crushed by a yard
jockey that slipped from gear and pinned him to a trailer.
- Fork lift injury
$
375,000 - Truck driver struck by a
fork lift at a job site sustained multiple fractures to his
right foot and ankle.
- Church camp “zip line” rope failure
$
187,500 - While
demonstrating a rope climbing maneuver at a church camp,
chaperone fell from a “zip line” strung between two trees
that camp personnel improperly secured, causing multiple
orthopedic injuries.
- Movie theater fall on highly polished floor
$
180,000
- Moviegoer slipped and broke her leg while stepping from a
carpeted aisle onto concrete floor that had been too highly
polished.
- Gunshot accident
$
300,000 - Gunshot wound to the neck
with spinal cord injury when a friend found a gun under a
bed in a motel room they were occupying and shot client
while examining the gun.
- Gunshot accident
$
90,000 - Client shot by a friend
while demonstrating new pistol.
- Hotel / motel negligent cleaning
$
75,000 - Days Inn
motel guest stuck her finger on a used hypodermic needle
left on the floor of her room, client to undergo testing for
AIDS virus.
- Nursing home resident knocked down
$
380,000 - Elderly
resident at nursing home knocked down by employee, causing
broken hip.
- Apartment house, fall on steps
$
271,407 - Tenant
injured in a fall at his apartment complex walking down
exterior steps when the bull nose stripping on the stairs
pulled away.
- Injury due to shopping cart
$
55,000 - Customer at
home supply store was knocked to ground by improperly loaded
shopping cart.
- Defective shopping bag
$
195,000 - Store personnel put
jar of mayonnaise in defective bag which broke causing
mayonnaise jar to break; customer fell in mayonnaise
breaking her ankle.
- Injury to eye
$
300,000 - 7-year-old boy was injured
when his friend threw a rock that stuck him in the eye.
- Contaminated Food
$
50,000 - Customer contracted
cholera From eating contaminated seafood
- Roller coaster injuries
$
25,000 - Young child injured
right foot while riding the Rebel Yell roller coaster at
King’s Dominion.
- Boating Accident
$
120,762 - Family member drug behind
boat due to improperly fastened tube.
- Slip and Fall
$
22,000 - Customer slipped on
cellophane paper left on floor and broke a rib.
- Elevator Malfunction
$
100,000 - Fan injured when
elevator malfunctions and falls.
- Burns From Hot Water
$
30,000 - Patient suffers third
degree burns to foot after home nurse uses scalding hot
water
- Lawnmower Accident
$
285,000 - Arbitration award to the family of a lady who
was struck and killed by a pickup truck while operating a
riding lawnmower on a public highway.
- Burns from Smoldering Ash
$
25,000 - Child stepped
into a pile of hot ash causing 3rd degree burns to his foot.
- Dog bite
ML v. JT
$ 20,000 -
Woman bit in both eyes by a friend’s dog when she reached down to pet the animal.
- Night club stripper injured by bouncer
A.P. v. MGB, Inc. and M.S.
$ 3,000 -
Off-duty stripper injured while being thrown out of club by bouncer.
- Screw found in food
$T.B.D. -
Customer found screw in a plate of pasta.
- Tractor-trailer wheel adjustment accident P.P. v. Super Service, Inc.
$ 2,500,000
- Tractor-trailer driver injured while helping another driver “slide the read tandem” on his trailer.
- Motorcycle Accident
$
120,000 - Student claimed instructor startled her in motorcycle training class; fractured right knee.
- Dog Attack
$
125,000 - 12 year old bitten in face by neighbor's dog.
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