Wisconsin Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements
27 independently-sourced personal injury results from Wisconsin 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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Power Rogers LLP recovered $100 million for Rev. Scott and Janet Willis after six of their nine children were killed when a mudflap assembly fell from a tractor-trailer on I-94 and ignited their minivan, a case that ultimately exposed an Illinois license-bribery scheme and sent Governor George Ryan to federal prison.
Robert Habush won a $99.25 million Milwaukee County jury verdict for the widows of three ironworkers killed when the Big Blue crane collapsed at Miller Park, though the $94 million punitive portion was later vacated and the case settled for about $30 million.
A Racine County jury found Hyundai's driver-seat and head-restraint design defective and awarded Edward and Susan Vanderventer $38.1 million, the largest single-plaintiff compensatory verdict in Wisconsin history, later upheld on appeal.
A Walworth County jury found Waukesha Memorial Hospital liable after a nurse pushed air into a two-week-old premature infant's IV line during a blood transfusion, sending emboli to his brain and leaving him with permanent quadriplegia and no usable speech.
A St. Croix County jury awarded $29 million to a Wisconsin boy born with cerebral palsy after a certified nurse-midwife failed to call the on-call obstetrician when his fetal heart rate collapsed during labor.
A Milwaukee County jury awarded $25.3 million after emergency room providers failed to tell Ascaris Mayo that her symptoms could mean a Strep A infection, an omission that cost her all four limbs, though the Wisconsin Supreme Court later reinstated the state's $750,000 cap on noneconomic damages.
A Milwaukee jury verdict and a related settlement delivered $25.24 million to a family after an unlicensed first-year resident spent 11 hours treating their teenage daughter for constipation while a twisted bowel killed the tissue it fed.
A six-year-old girl suffered cardiac arrest and permanent brain damage when a surgeon used a morcellator he had never operated during a routine spleen removal, and the case settled for $17.3 million, the largest sum reported to the Wisconsin Law Journal in 2009.
The family of a three-year-old girl who died of E. coli traced to contaminated beef at a South Milwaukee Sizzler reached a $13.5 million settlement, among the largest food-borne-illness recoveries in the country.
A consolidated federal class action alleging that Advocate Aurora Health secretly shared sensitive patient data with Meta and Google through hidden tracking pixels settled for $12.225 million, with Terence Coates and Dylan Gould of Markovits Stock and DeMarco serving as co-lead class counsel.
Cannon & Dunphy recovered $12 million for two families after an illegally overloaded cement truck ran a red light in Waukesha County, killing a van's driver and leaving a passenger with permanent brain injuries.
A physician's morphine overdose left an 8-month-old boy at a La Crosse County, Wisconsin hospital with permanent brain damage, and the family's medical-malpractice claim resolved in a $10 million settlement handled by Cannon & Dunphy.
A 10-year-old boy was left with severe brain damage after the arterial and venous lines of a heart-lung machine were connected in reverse during open-heart surgery, and Cannon & Dunphy resolved the case for $10 million, reported as the first eight-figure personal injury settlement in Wisconsin history.
An 11-year-old boy lost his left arm in a commercial Laundromat washer whose door could be opened mid-cycle, and Cannon & Dunphy reached a multimillion-dollar product-liability recovery against the Belgian manufacturer and the machine's suppliers.
A federal jury in Milwaukee awarded three men poisoned by lead paint as children $6 million against Sherwin-Williams, DuPont, and Armstrong, a verdict the Seventh Circuit later reversed.
Ted Warshafsky won a $4,983,966 award for a 9-year-old boy left with brain damage after a near-fatal car crash, the largest personal injury recovery in Wisconsin history at the time.
Habush Habush & Rottier recovered $4.5 million for a Green Bay woman whose left leg was amputated after a Veolia Solid Waste Midwest garbage truck ran her over in a downtown crosswalk while she had the walk signal.
A Milwaukee County jury awarded a sexual assault survivor $4.1 million, including $1 million in punitive damages, against Karlos Soriano-Cabrera, the former C-Viche restaurateur already convicted and imprisoned for assaulting multiple women.
Benjamin Wagner and Molly Lavin of Habush Habush & Rottier won a $4 million punitive damages verdict in Kenosha County after Helen Ende, an 89-year-old dementia patient, wandered out of a short-staffed assisted living facility and died of hypothermia.
Daniel A. Rottier and Christopher Rogers of Habush Habush & Rottier reached a $4 million settlement for a Wisconsin excavating worker whose legs were crushed when a defective Hendrix quick coupler let a bucket fall on him.
A Wisconsin jury returned a then-record $3.3 million verdict in 1976 for a teenage girl left brain damaged when a defective rear-axle differential in a General Motors car caused a crash, and GM settled for about $3 million after appealing.
A Milwaukee spine surgeon was set to operate on the right side of Ken Plants's spine in 2004 and cut the left instead; Ted Warshafsky's firm settled the case for $2.9 million in 2009.
Ted Warshafsky argued that a farm grinding machine's emergency shutoff was defectively designed, and recovered $2 million for the man it maimed.