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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.
- Roller coaster injuries
$25,000 - Young child injured
right foot while riding the Rebel Yell roller coaster at
King’s Dominion.
- Contaminated Food
$50,000 - Customer contracted
cholera From eating contaminated seafood
- Injury to eye
$300,000 - 7-year-old boy was injured
when is friend threw a rock that stuck him in the eye.
- 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 due to shopping cart
$55,000 - Customer at
home supply store was knocked to ground by improperly loaded
shopping cart.
- 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.
- Nursing home resident knocked down
$380,000 - Elderly
resident at nursing home knocked down by employee, causing
broken hip.
- 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.
- Gunshot accident
$90,000 - Client shot by a friend
while demonstrating new pistol.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Plane crash
$100,000 - Fatality from a small engine
plane crash en route to New York.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hunting injury
$200,000 - Hunter slipped while
crossing a small creek and accidentally shot fellow hunter
in arm.
- 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.
- Grocery Store Injury
$40,000 - Boxes fell on patron's
head causing injury.
- Nursing home rape
$750,000 - 60-year-old nursing home
resident recovering from stroke was raped by an employee of
while he was changing her clothing.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Elevator malfunction
$975,000 - Client fell down
elevator shaft at work after stepping through open door
expecting car to be there.
- Dog bite
$15,000 - Child bit in the face by
neighbor’s dog.
- 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.
- Trash bin lid amputation
$350,000 - Lid from large
trash bin fell on child’s hand amputating a portion of his
finger.
- 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.
- Indecent exposure on city bus
$25,000 - Driver of a
Richmond City bus caused emotional distress to a female
passenger by indecently exposing himself.
- Wet carpet fall
$25,000 - Client broke her wrist
slipping on wet carpeted stairs during home carpet cleaning.
- 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.
- Airport pavement hole
$45,000 - Passenger at Richmond
International Airport fell and broke her ankle in hidden
hole in pavement.
- Boat pier collapse
$12,000 - Boater lacerated her leg
when thrown in water by collapsing pier.
- Shopping mall construction fence
$36,000 - Customer
in shopping mall parking lot struck on head by falling
construction fence.
- 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.
- Dog attack
$25,000 - Child attacked and bitten by
neighbor’s dog after getting off school bus.
- Dog bite attack
$12,000 - Guest visiting friend’s
home attacked by homeowners 5 dogs.
- Airplane luggage compartment
$75,000 - Lap top
computer fell from defective overhead luggage compartment
and hit passenger in head.
- Wal-Mart cart injury
$55,000 - Customer broke her leg
when Wal-Mart employee pushed stock cart into her.
- 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.
- Night club patron hit by falling object
$15,000 -
Patron in night club injured when sound speaker detached
from ceiling and struck her head.
- Fall in open manhole
$15,000 - Young girl injured
when she fell into uncovered man hole at apartment building.
- 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.
- Lowe’s sidewalk fall
$10,000 - Shopper injured by
tripping on a wire strung across sidewalk in front of
Lowe’s.
- Window glass injury
$8,847 - Home renter cut her hand
when it went through a window in her rented home.
- 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.
- Hunting accident
$71,000 - Hunter mistaken for a deer
was shot by another hunter.
- Wheel fall-off
$17,000 - Motorist crashed when the
car he just had serviced at Pep Boys lost a wheel.
- Car-jacking
$25,000 - Good-Samaritan injured when
motorist who flagged him down car-jacked him.
- Glass in food
$500 - Consumer was injured by broken
glass found in a baby food jar.
- Falling merchandise
$3,000 - Client was injured when
items stacked on a shelf at Lowe’s fell on him.
- Restaurant injury from ice machine
$5,000 - Client
was injured when the lid flew off an ice machine and struck
him in the eye.
- Collapsing chair
$5,000 - Visitor at County
Correctional Facility injured when chair in waiting room
collapsed.
- Porch railing failure
$95,000 - Guest at mobile home
fell and broke his wrist when the handrail on the front
porch gave way.
- Martial arts class kicking injury
$325,000 - Student
at Tae Kwon Do class suffered brain injury from being kicked
in the head by instructor.
- 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.
- Blood test improperly done
$20,000 - Woman having
blood test for life insurance application injured by
repeated needle punctures in wrong area by nurse.
- Wrong medication
$40,000 - Long-time patient given
medication to which she was severely allergic; allergies
listed in patient’s chart.
- 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.
- Railroad passenger hit by fold-up sink
$25,000 -
Train passenger suffered concussion from being struck on
head by fold-up sink.
- Fall on store sidewalk
$40,000 - Lowe’s customer
broke her leg tripping on small mound of dried concrete near
entrance.
- Go-cart injury
$50,000 - Unsupervised minor riding
go-cart at birthday party ran off path into culvert and
injured her face and teeth.
- Scaffolding fall
$36,500 - Painter injured back after
falling from scaffolding that was altered by another
contractor.
- Homicide
$100,000 - Farmer shot and killed by his
neighbor during an argument over a bull on the neighbor’s
property.
- Employment mental disability discrimination
$267,000
- Mentally retarded man harassed by his supervisor suffered
severe emotional distress.
- 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.
- Movie theater injury from lighting
$20,000 - Client
fell and broke her ankle at movie theater because stairway
lighting was turned off.
- 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.
- Negligent repair of mountain bike
$80,000 - Bicyclist
injured knee in mountain trail accident due to negligent
repairs at bike shop.
- Slippery platform at carnival
$75,000 - Carnival
patron slipped on wet carnival ride platform and broke her
leg.
- 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.
- 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.
- Uncle's dog bites niece
$89,000 - Niece was bitten on
her face while playing with Uncle’s dog.
- Boat Accident
$862,500 - Bolt broke allowing
onboard motor to enter boat; amputation of lower portion of
left arm.
- 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.
- 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.
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