Tennessee Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements

A Nashville jury awarded sportscaster Erin Andrews $55 million in March 2016 after finding that West End Hotel Partners bore 49 percent of liability for a stalker who secretly filmed her through a tampered peephole at the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University in 2008.

A Davidson County jury awarded Fox Sports reporter Erin Andrews $55 million after finding that the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt negligently disclosed her room location to a stalker who altered a peephole to film her without consent.

A Shelby County jury found two Regional One obstetric physicians negligently delayed a C-section through a prolonged labor, leaving a first-time mother's newborn with a brain injury and lifelong disability, and returned a $38,816,500 verdict.

A Tennessee jury awarded Milan Supply Chain Solutions $30.8 million after finding that Navistar fraudulently concealed known defects in the MaxxForce diesel engines installed in 243 heavy-duty trucks it sold to the carrier; the verdict was later reversed by the Tennessee Supreme Court on economic-loss-doctrine grounds.

A federal jury in Chattanooga awarded $22.2 million to a Franklin County couple after an epidural catheter placed for post-surgical pain control triggered a spinal bleed that left 62-year-old Bette Donathan permanently paralyzed from the waist down.

After a Spirit Truck Lines semi killed TDOT field supervisor David Younger and injured several of his crew on Interstate 40, Rocky McElhaney filed a wrongful-death and injury suit publicly seeking $18 million; the final outcome was not reported.

A Davidson County jury awarded $16,111,643 to Justin Bing, a 26-year-old Nashville marketing manager who suffered cardiac arrest, strokes, and permanent hypoxic brain damage after two physicians failed to recognize and treat a bile leak that developed following routine gallbladder surgery.

A Marion County jury awarded $9.4 million after a Cracker Barrel waitress refilled a customer's glass with a mix of water and commercial bleach instead of ice water.

A Shelby County jury found Norfolk Southern 100 percent at fault after veteran conductor Thomas David Jordan was struck by a passing BNSF train while working between dangerously close tracks in South Memphis, awarding $5 million under the Federal Employers' Liability Act. Wettermark Keith co-founder Chris Keith was counsel of record for Jordan, and the Tennessee Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment entered on the verdict in 2009.

Donati Law served as class counsel in a federal class action that secured a $4.9 million settlement for Shelby County Jail inmates who were held beyond their lawful release dates after a botched 2016 rollout of Tyler Technologies' Odyssey court management software.

A Memphis federal jury found that FTS USA and Unitek USA willfully cheated nearly 300 cable technicians out of overtime pay by systematically shaving their reported hours, and the Sixth Circuit later affirmed the verdict in a published opinion.

A Shelby County jury awarded tanker driver Donriel Borne $3,705,000 after a Celadon tractor-trailer rear-ended him in stopped construction-zone traffic on Interstate 55, and the case later set the standard Tennessee appellate courts use to review a reduced verdict.

A federal jury awarded Andrea Jaye Mosby $3,274,857 after finding that Reaves Law Firm fired her in retaliation for reporting that it paid female attorneys less than equally qualified male colleagues.

After State Farm denied uninsured-motorist coverage and defended the driver who caused the crash, a Memphis jury held him 85 percent at fault for the collision that killed Kathryn Sadowski and injured her 90-year-old husband, Emil.

A Shelby County jury awarded Julius Malone and his wife $2,519,772 after an ASF Intermodal semi-truck merged into his lane on I-240 in Memphis, and Tennessee's noneconomic-damages cap later reduced the judgment to $1,529,772.

Tia Fitzpatrick-Young's $2 million wrongful-death suit accused Nashville's housing agency of letting crime build at the Edgehill complex, where a stray bullet from a dice-game dispute killed her husband, Glen Young Jr.; the outcome was not publicly reported.

A Davidson County jury awarded $703,105 to a Nashville handyman who sustained a cervical injury when a vehicle operated by Acer Landscape Services collided with his, leaving him unable to perform basic tasks at the pace and volume his livelihood required.

A Nashville jury awarded $347,134 after a nursing home admitted it never administered insulin to an elderly diabetic woman during her five-day respite stay, leaving her in a hypoglycemic crisis when her family came to pick her up.

A Davidson County jury awarded Cinda Haddon $320,000 after an uninsured driver ran her right-of-way and left her with a patellar fracture that progressed to a full knee replacement.

A commercial truck rolled into a driver stopped at a Nashville red light, and a Davidson County jury awarded $277,966, including $165,000 in non-economic damages, for the rotator cuff tear that followed.

A trailer hauling a hot tub broke loose on U.S. 31W and struck an oncoming Nashville driver head-on, and a Davidson County jury awarded $125,143 for soft-tissue injuries and the aggravation of pre-existing conditions.

A Williamson County jury awarded a crash victim $111,502 after a rear-end collision caused a herniated disc requiring surgery, rejecting the defense argument that the injury was pre-existing degeneration.

A Memphis jury sided with in-house attorney Andrea Mosby-Meachem after her employer refused a physician-ordered telecommuting accommodation during a high-risk pregnancy, and the Sixth Circuit later affirmed the verdict in a nationally cited ADA ruling on remote work.

The Tennessee Court of Appeals upheld a Shelby County jury's $50,000 award to rear-end-collision victim Ivy Joe Clark and his wife, holding their own auto carrier responsible after the at-fault driver's insurer went insolvent.