Kentucky Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements
21 independently-sourced personal injury results from Kentucky firms, largest first. Filter by practice area or result type. Each links to the full story, the firm, the attorneys, and the record behind the number.
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A Jefferson Circuit Court jury awarded $163,973,760 to Jilianne Warner, who was left permanently quadriplegic after a GEICO-dispatched tow truck plowed into her stopped car at highway speed; the verdict was later overturned on appeal.
A Boone County jury found that Eaton Asphalt's improper repaving of Richwood Road created the edge drop-off that sent a flatbed truck into Amy Skiba's car, and awarded her three children $74 million.
A Warren County jury awarded $27,335,667.87 after a Monarch Environmental garbage truck parked illegally on a rural Kentucky road put a 17-year-old in a coma for 57 days and left her with permanent brain damage.
A Barren County jury awarded $18.27 million after finding that nurses at T.J. Samson Community Hospital disregarded the treating obstetrician's standing Pitocin orders during a 2007 delivery, depriving newborn Tristan Hamilton of oxygen and leaving him with spastic quadriplegia.
The University of the Cumberlands paid $14.1 million to the family of Grant Brace, a 20-year-old wrestler who died of exertional heatstroke in August 2020 after coaches refused him water during a grueling punishment practice and failed to summon medical help.
Ben Crump, alongside Louisville co-counsel Sam Aguiar and Lonita Baker, settled the wrongful-death lawsuit brought by Breonna Taylor's mother against the City of Louisville for $12 million, the largest police-misconduct payout in the city's history, paired with a package of policing reforms the family made a non-negotiable condition of the deal.
Louisville Metro Government paid $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old licensed EMT shot by LMPD officers during a no-knock drug raid on March 13, 2020, the largest police-misconduct settlement in the city's history.
An eight-person federal jury awarded $10 million to the widow and two children of Christopher Short, 44, who died when a Marvin Keller Trucking driver crossed the I-64 median in Bath County, Kentucky, in March 2019.
A federal jury in Louisville awarded a Kentucky family $7.24 million, including $6.25 million in punitive damages, after a defective Advanced Bionics HiRes90K cochlear implant let moisture seep inside and violently shocked their young deaf daughter.
The Rowan County Board of Education agreed to a $3 million settlement in February 2026 after a coach repeatedly abused a student while administrators ignored at least eight separate reports of the conduct, in what attorneys described as the largest single-victim school sexual abuse settlement in Kentucky history.
Minner Vines secured a $3 million settlement for a survivor who was repeatedly sexually abused by Rowan County teacher and coach Andrew Zaheri beginning at age 14, in a case believed to be the largest single-victim school sexual-abuse settlement in Kentucky history.
Louisville Metro Government paid $1.25 million to the family of Darnell Wicker, a 57-year-old man shot 14 times by LMPD officers during a 2016 domestic-disturbance call in which he was holding a tree saw.
A Jefferson County jury awarded $1,200,626 to a Fort Knox Staff Sergeant whose left arm was permanently impaired after an AmeriGas propane delivery truck drifted into his lane and clipped his motorcycle on Blevins Gap Road in September 2005.
Jonathan Hollan of Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers won a $728,218 jury verdict for a plaintiff whose cargo van was struck when a tractor-trailer jackknifed during rush-hour traffic on Louisville's Gene Snyder Freeway.
A Clark County jury awarded $601,853 to a woman rear-ended in the rain on the Mountain Parkway, finding her shoulder and hip injuries, PTSD, and lost income were caused by the collision despite a defense claim that she had exaggerated her symptoms.
A Louisville jury found House of Boom 60% liable after a patron broke his back striking an all-black punching bag during a lights-out event, resulting in damages of roughly $495,000 after comparative fault.
Louisville agreed to pay $375,000 to resolve a federal civil rights lawsuit after a judge found that LMPD Detective Kevin Crawford unlawfully detained and searched 18-year-old Tae-Ahn Lea during a 2018 traffic stop that was captured on video and spread widely online.
A Jefferson County jury returned a $356,893 verdict against All My Sons Moving after one of its drivers left a large box truck stopped on the roadside without adequate warning, causing a collision that fractured the plaintiff's ribs and produced a lasting sacroiliac joint injury.
A Jefferson County jury took eight minutes to award a retired florist $261,520 after a head-on collision on River Road in Prospect left him trapped in his vehicle and seriously injured, with the verdict coming in a UIM coverage dispute against his own insurer.
A Carroll County jury returned a $237,943 verdict for a woman who needed a C4-7 cervical fusion after a minor rear-end collision, exhausting the available UIM coverage from Kentucky Farm Bureau.
Sam Aguiar served as class counsel in Davis v. State Farm, a certified federal class action on behalf of Kentucky policyholders who were denied uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage after State Farm agents allegedly forged their signatures on coverage-rejection waivers; the court approved a class settlement on October 28, 2020, and awarded class counsel $3.4 million in fees and expenses.