Truck Accident Verdicts and Settlements

A Nassau County jury found two trucking companies responsible for the 2017 chain-reaction crash on I-95 near Yulee that killed 18-year-old Connor Dzion, returning a $1 billion verdict that Curry Pajcic won for the teen's parents.

A St. Louis jury returned a $462 million verdict against trailer maker Wabash National for a 2019 underride crash that killed two young fathers, with the award later reduced to approximately $119.5 million by the trial judge.

A Santa Fe jury awarded $165.5 million, the largest verdict in New Mexico history, to the survivors of a young mother and her daughter killed when a FedEx tractor-trailer plowed into their stopped pickup at highway speed on Interstate 10.

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 Nassau County jury awarded $141.5 million, including $125 million in punitive damages, against K&N Logging after an unvetted driver's 80,000-pound log truck plowed into stopped school-zone traffic and left a young child with permanent brain damage.

A Wayne County jury awarded $96 million to the widow of a New Jersey father and his college-baseball-star son, both killed when a Challenger Motor Freight semi rear-ended their SUV in a Detroit-area construction zone while the driver was on three Parkinson's disease medications that warned against operating heavy equipment.

A Callaway County jury awarded Beth Mayhew and her husband $82.3 million after a truck driver hit their vehicle on I-70 while driving with both feet on the dashboard and holding an iPad to watch videos.

A retrial jury in Utah's Fourth District Court awarded $81 million against Beacon Roofing Supply after one of its trucks struck and killed a 12-year-old boy who was crossing legally in a marked crosswalk.

A New Mexico jury awarded $58.5 million, believed at the time to be the state's largest truck verdict, to the family of Kevin Udy, a mechanical engineer killed in 2010 when a tanker truck turned into his path on a highway near Carlsbad.

A Middlesex County jury awarded Malcolm Carnwath $56 million -- the largest single-plaintiff personal-injury verdict in Massachusetts history -- after an Amazon delivery driver fell asleep, crossed the center line on a Portsmouth, New Hampshire road, and struck his vehicle head-on, causing a leg amputation, multiple strokes, and permanent brain injury.

A Citrus County jury awarded $54.1 million to the family of Jeffery Hindalong, killed when a Freightliner bucket truck driven by a tree-service employee swerved across the center line into his vehicle. Morgan & Morgan partner Jonathan Brozyna and the firm's trial team took the case to verdict after the family turned down a $2 million settlement offer.

A Los Angeles County jury awarded $53.7 million to two brothers left with traumatic brain injuries after a CRST big rig crossed the center line on State Route 14 and hit their car head-on.

A Winnebago County jury awarded $52 million to the Krischon family for a 2018 crash caused by an off-tracking Panera Bread semi-truck that killed an 88-year-old man and seriously injured his son, finding the company and its driver 90 percent at fault. The award was part of a $67 million total verdict that also compensated a second family represented by separate counsel.

A Van Nuys jury held the City of Los Angeles responsible for catastrophic injuries to a pedestrian struck inside a marked Encino crosswalk by a city sanitation truck.

A jury awarded nearly $39 million after a New Prime tractor-trailer jackknifed on icy Interstate 40 and triggered a multi-vehicle pileup that killed four people, including two members of a Texas family.

A Clark County jury returned $38.8 million against Republic Services after one of its garbage trucks turned through a marked crosswalk and struck and killed an 11-year-old girl who was crossing with the walk signal.

A Cook County jury awarded the Yoder family $38.3 million after a multi-truck pileup on Interstate 90 near Rockford killed their four-year-old daughter and left their two-year-old son permanently disabled, and the verdict survived appeal in 2008.

A Dallas County jury found Oncor's driver 84 percent at fault and awarded $37.5 million to the widow and three children of trucker Shamsher Singh, killed on I-635 when a distracted Oncor service-truck driver struck his stopped 18-wheeler.

A Los Angeles jury awarded $35,285,942 to an 81-year-old man who suffered a spinal fracture and permanent injuries after a tractor-trailer rear-ended the vehicle he was riding in on Interstate 10.

Zehl & Associates secured a $35 million settlement for the family of Susana Longoria, a 31-year-old nursing student and single mother killed when a Ben E. Keith 18-wheeler struck her disabled car and the people helping her on I-35W in Fort Worth.

A Sacramento County jury awarded $34,921,215 to Debra Hackett and her husband after a Silva Trucking tractor-trailer jackknifed on Highway 12 and left Debra paralyzed from the waist down with a traumatic brain injury.

The widow and four daughters of Christopher Crump, a 32-year-old Army veteran, received $32.5 million after his car became trapped under a Tyson Foods tractor-trailer with defective lighting in the pre-dawn darkness, a result reported as Georgia's largest single-plaintiff pre-trial wrongful death settlement at the time.

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 Denver jury awarded $26.6 million to two adult siblings whose parents were both killed when a drowsy CWRV Transport driver rear-ended their stopped vehicle at 75 mph on a Colorado highway.