District of Columbia Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements

After fifteen years of litigation and three failed bankruptcy maneuvers by Johnson and Johnson subsidiaries, Ashcraft and Gerel attorneys R. Bryant McCulley and Michelle Parfitt helped negotiate a global, uncapped settlement of at least $5.5 billion covering approximately 76,000 ovarian-cancer claims.

A federal court in Washington, D.C. awarded $1.956 billion to 114 survivors and Gold Star family members in Carlson Law Firm's second successful default-judgment lawsuit holding Iran liable for the October 2000 USS Cole bombing.

The Law Offices of James Scott Farrin served as lead driver for a coalition of more than 25 firms in the In re Black Farmers Discrimination Litigation, helping win a $1.25 billion settlement for African American farmers denied a fair shot at USDA loan programs.

A federal court in Washington, D.C. awarded $807 million to 58 USS Cole bombing survivors and immediate family members after finding that Iran provided material support to the al-Qaeda operatives who carried out the 2000 attack.

An L.A. jury awarded Eva Echeverria $417 million after finding that decades of Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder use caused her ovarian cancer, though the trial judge later vacated the verdict and the Court of Appeal affirmed the vacatur.

A 59-year-old woman went in for elective lumbar surgery to relieve chronic back pain and came out severely brain-damaged after her iliac artery was severed; an Arlington County jury awarded $35,620,902, the second-highest Virginia medical malpractice verdict that year, before the state cap cut the judgment to $2.2 million.

A D.C. Superior Court jury awarded $8.35 million after an orthopedic surgeon failed to recognize the loss of blood flow to an 82-year-old patient's leg following a knee replacement, leaving the limb to die and require an above-knee amputation.

A 40-year-old store manager was left permanently impaired after a radiologist dismissed signs of a carotid blockage on her MRI, and a D.C. jury awarded $5,774,156 for the malpractice that preceded her stroke.

Joseph Cammarata secured a $4.5 million jury verdict for Sherry Galloway, a pedestrian dragged under a DASH bus in August 2014 by a driver Alexandria Transit Company kept behind the wheel despite four prior preventable accidents.

A premature newborn suffered a permanent chemical burn and stunted growth in her right ankle after an IV line leaked caustic fluid into the surrounding tissue, and a District of Columbia jury awarded her $3.6 million.

Patrick Malone won a $1.4 million wrongful-death verdict against a gynecologist who missed a patient's precancerous condition, then took an appeal that limited how much a nonsettling doctor may deduct for a codefendant's settlement.

Peter TerVeer, a Library of Congress management analyst, was fired in 2012 after his supervisor learned he was gay through a Facebook page and subjected him to months of religious harassment; Thomas Simeone helped secure a Title VII sex-stereotyping ruling that survived a motion to dismiss, and the case ultimately settled for $235,000.

Joseph Cammarata secured a confidential settlement for seven women who sued Bill Cosby for defamation after he publicly branded their sexual-assault allegations as lies.

Price Benowitz brought a federal civil rights and wrongful death suit after Alonzo Smith, 27, died in 2015 while special police officers restrained him face down at a Southeast Washington apartment complex.

A federal judge held the United States could be sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act for a tree limb that fell on pedestrian Mary Lou Walen during Hurricane Sandy, rejecting the government's sovereign-immunity defense and later denying summary judgment.

A Washington, D.C. woman sued the Tenleytown Massage Envy franchise and its corporate parent for $25 million after a massage therapist with a documented history of prior complaints sexually assaulted her during a 2017 appointment.

Cohen & Cohen attorney Kim Brooks-Rodney represented Malbert Rich and other passengers injured in the January 2015 L'Enfant Plaza Metro smoke emergency, filing suit against WMATA for negligent maintenance and delayed evacuation.

The family of a construction superintendent fatally burned when an underground steam pipe ruptured in downtown Washington in 2004 settled their wrongful death case confidentially with the federal government, D.C. Water, and the contractors named in the suit.

Patrick Regan and Salvatore Zambri represented families of nine people killed when a Red Line Metro train struck a stopped train near Fort Totten station on June 22, 2009, ultimately obtaining confidential settlements from WMATA and three equipment manufacturers who admitted liability.

Patrick Regan co-represented widow Kathy Wone in a $20 million wrongful death suit against three defendants acquitted of obstruction charges in the 2006 murder of Washington attorney Robert Wone, reaching a confidential settlement in August 2011.

Patrick Regan represented the adult children of slain New York Times journalist David Rosenbaum in a $20 million lawsuit against Washington, DC for catastrophic emergency response failures, achieving a 2007 settlement that compelled a complete overhaul of the city's EMS system and a separate confidential settlement with Howard University Hospital.

Thomas Simeone led a class action on behalf of deaf and hard-of-hearing Washington, D.C., moviegoers, obtaining a 2004 federal court settlement that required AMC Entertainment and Loews Cineplex to install rear-window captioning systems, giving the D.C. deaf community broader access to captioned first-run films than any comparable market in the country.

Joseph Cammarata co-represented Paula Jones before the US Supreme Court and secured a unanimous ruling that a sitting president holds no immunity from civil suit for conduct predating his time in office.

Charles Herrmann represented families of KAL Flight 007 victims through a decade of litigation that produced a jury finding of willful misconduct and a $50 million punitive award and, after the punitive damages were vacated on appeal, individual recoveries the firm reports exceeded $26 million in total.