Iowa Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements
9 independently-sourced personal injury results from Iowa 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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Cedar Rapids' insurer paid $8 million to Jerime Mitchell, a quadriplegic man shot by Officer Lucas Jones during a 2016 traffic stop, in what attorneys described as the largest police-misconduct settlement in Iowa history.
A Winnebago County jury awarded $6 million, including $2 million in punitive damages, after finding Timely Mission Nursing Home negligent and reckless in the fall death of 83-year-old resident Darlene Weaver.
A Black Hawk County jury awarded $1.8 million to Massachusetts sound engineer Frank Sgambellone after a State of Iowa forklift operator ran over his ankle during post-concert teardown at the UNI-Dome in February 2016.
A Dallas County jury returned a $79,895.55 plaintiff verdict in December 2019 in a motor vehicle personal injury case, with Richard Schmidt and Dustin Mueller of Mueller Schmidt Mulholland and Cooling, PLLC, representing passenger Lorene Arbuckle against defendant Jocelyn Anne Kirchner.
A Warren County jury returned a $6,000 verdict for plaintiffs Jonna Audino and Trenton Shever following a motor vehicle collision, with Hannah Moreland and Dustin Mueller of Mueller Schmidt Mulholland and Cooling trying the case to verdict in April 2024.
The Iowa Supreme Court reversed the dismissal of state common law claims brought by the estate of Brent Boggess, a man fatally shot by a Waterloo police officer in November 2021, and remanded the case for further proceedings in district court.
A Dubuque County jury determined damages for an injured plaintiff in a November 2021 underinsured motorist trial against Allstate Property and Casualty, with Allstate having already admitted liability before the case went to the jury, and Connor Mulholland of Mueller Schmidt Mulholland and Cooling, PLLC representing the plaintiff.
In a 2016 ruling that set binding Iowa precedent, the state Supreme Court affirmed that HealthPort Technologies could not charge patients more for copies of their medical records than the treating provider itself was legally permitted to charge.
A 1984 Polk County jury became the first in the nation to hold polyvinyl chloride wire insulation liable for fire deaths, finding six companies negligent in the 1978 blaze that killed ten Younkers department store employees.