PERSONAL INJURY LAWSUIT SETTLEMENTS
Cash Compensation, Money Awards
Accidents can cause serious problems such as:
Personal injury law involves seeking compensation in the form of settlements or jury awards if you are a victim or have been involved in:
Here are some of the Largest Personal Injury Lawsuit Settlements, Verdicts and Awards:
Amount: $505,100,000.00 - JURY VERDICT - Product Liability, Outbreak of Hepatitis C caused by oversized vials of a drug
Amount: $208,800,000.00 - JURY VERDICT - Asbestos contamination
Amount: $132,500,000.00 - JURY VERDICT - Ford rollover accident, Death
Amount: $124,500,000.00 - JURY VERDICT - Bus accident, Death
Amount: $103,000,000.00 - JURY VERDICT - Legal malpractice, conspiracy, breach of fiduciary duties, and interfering with business relationships
Amount: $89,000,000.00 - JURY VERDICT - Product Liability, Airplane crash
Amount: $82,500,000.00 - JURY VERDICT - Gas plant blast
Amount: $66,000,000.00 - JURY VERDICT - Product Liability, Vertebra crushed by weight machine
Amount: $15,900,000.00 - JURY VERDICT - Product Liability, Brain Injuries
Amount: $12,000,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Automobile Accident, Severe spinal cord injury
Amount: $10,000,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - School Accident, Brain Injuries
Amount: $ 9,500,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Car Accidents, Tetraplegia
Amount: $9,000,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Grain elevator explosion, Traumatic Brain Injury
Amount: $6,000,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Semi Tractor-Trailer Accident, Traumatic Brain Injury
Amount: $5,000,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Medical Malpractice, Brain Injuries
Amount: $5,000,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Premise Liability Quadriplegic
Amount: $4,500,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Product Liability, Paraplegic
Amount: $4,500,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Semi tractor-trailer, Collision, Orthopedic injuries
Amount: $4,500,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Pedestrian Accidents, Brain Injuries
Amount: $4,100,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Semi tractor-trailer, Accident, Traumatic Brain Injury
Amount: $3,250,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Airplane Accident, Traumatic Brain Injury
Amount: $3,000,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Medical Malpractice, Confidential
Amount: $2,700,000.00 - ARBITRATION AWARD - Semi tractor-trailer Accident, Massive Orthopedic and Internal Injuries
Amount: $2,500,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Pipeline Explosion/Burn, Wrongful Death
Amount: $ 2,500,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Construction Accidents, Neck injury with nerve damage
Amount: $2,100,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Premise Liability, Spinal Cord Injury
Amount: $ 2,000,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Pedestrian Accidents, Death
Amount: $1,800,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Animal Accident, Loss of Fingers
Amount: $1,600,000.00 - JURY VERDICT - Semi Truck Accident, Brain Injury and Neck Injury
Amount: $1,550,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Drunk Driving Accidents, Traumatic brain Injury
Amount: $1,500,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Premise Liability, Brain Injury
Amount: $1,300,000.00 - JURY VERDICT - Premises Liability, Spinal Cord Injuries
Amount: $1,100,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Construction Accidents, Death
Amount: $1,050,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Slip, Trip and Fall, Traumatic Brain Injury
Amount: $1,000,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Medical Malpractice, Confidential
Amount: $1,000,000.00 - JURY VERDICT - Product Liability
Amount: $1,000,000.00 - JURY VERDICT - Medical Malpractice
Amount: $1,000,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Boating Accident, Wrongful Death
Amount: $1,000,000.00 - ARBITRATION AWARD - Auto Accident/Broken Bone
Amount: $920,000.00 - SETTLEMENT - Product Liability, Orthopedic injuries
Amount: $780,000.00 - ARBITRATION AWARD - Automobile Accident
The largest personal injury lawsuit award in history:
It was a $4.9 BILLION judgement against GM on December 24, 1993 for a defective fuel system that caused a Chevy Malibu to burst into flames after being rear ended.
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