Case Results

$42,000,000 Logging Accident Settlement

Settlement reached after a log chipper exploded deep in the woods in Greensville County, hurting three and killing one. Each of the four suffered horrific burn injuries. Ours was one of four law firms that banded together to obtain this remarkable composite result.

$6,500,000 Taser Settlement

This was another horrific burn injury case. Our client, a man soaked in gasoline, ignited when a police officer shot him with a Taser. Four law firms, included ours, pooled expertise to obtain this settlement for the man who had been so badly burned.

$5,000,000 Medical Malpractice Verdict

This Medical Malpractice lawsuit involved a Chesterfield County man who was left incapacitated by a stroke. The stroke was the result of medication prescribed by his doctor to address symptoms of a cold. The medication was called Phenergan VC with codeine. This is believed to be the largest medical malpractice verdict ever returned by a Chesterfield County jury.

$2,900,000 Settlement Following Head-on High-Speed Collision

We brought this lawsuit on behalf of a high school teacher who was badly hurt when an overly zealous off-duty policeman, responding as a volunteer to an emergency call, crossed over the yellow line and hit the teacher’s car head-on.

$2,000,000 Wrongful Death Verdict

This jury verdict of over $2 million dollars is believed to be the largest wrongful death, medical malpractice verdict ever returned by a Petersburg jury. A teacher who taught elementary school in Prince George County died at Southside Regional Medical Center because an emergency physician failed to diagnose a flesh-eating bacterial infection.

$1,880,385 Wrongful Death Verdict

Jury verdict for the mother of an 18-year-old girl ejected from a speeding car that struck the brick wall of Blandford Cemetery while northbound at a curve on South Crater Road in Petersburg.

$1,800,000 Wrongful Death Verdict

Jury verdict in favor of a wife and family as a result of the death of their husband. The defendant was driving on Interstate 95 from Pennsylvania to Florida while under the influence of alcohol plus his grandfather’s anti-depressant medication and rear-ended the car driven by the husband, killing him instantly.

$1,700,000 Wrongful Death Verdict

This was a wrongful death lawsuit brought on behalf of the 83 year old husband and six adult children of a woman who died because her aorta tore when her chest hit the steering wheel. For more information see the published decision of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Shepard v. Capitol Foundry of Virginia, Inc., 262 Va. 715, https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914b944add7b0493478a22a

$1,505,258 Wrongful Death Verdict

Christie Green was killed by fragments of high-tech ammo shot through the back door of a public housing project by the Richmond SWAT Team as they tried to enter to serve a no-knock search warrant. We sued the SWAT officer who fired the shot that killed Ms. Green. For more information see the published decision of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Green v. Ingram, 269 Va. 281, https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/59147575add7b04934

$1,250,000 Wrongful Death Settlement

This tragic medical malpractice case resulted when a radiologist in his haste mixed up the dates on the X-ray images he was comparing, causing him to miss a pivotal change in the size of the heart of an 11 month old infant. As a result, the infant died and her mother was devastated.