Car Accidents verdicts & settlements

An Ector County jury awarded $262.5 million to Isaac Sanchez, left quadriplegic when a drunk driver who had been served 19 drinks at Linx Bar and Grill rear-ended his motorcycle at a North Odessa intersection in June 2021.

A Morgan & Morgan trial team won a $120 million Alachua County verdict for Jacob Rodgers, paralyzed at 20 when a Gainesville Regional Utilities driver ran a stop sign and broadsided the pickup he was riding in. After appeals and remittitur cut the judgment to $18.3 million, the case settled for $11 million, most of it paid through a Florida legislative claims bill that became law in 2025.

A unanimous Travis County jury returned a $112.9 million verdict against Wings 'N More and the intoxicated driver who struck the Carpenter family vehicle in August 2023, causing catastrophic injuries to a 6-year-old passenger.

A Miami-Dade jury returned a $95 million verdict, among the largest motor-vehicle awards in the history of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, for the family of a young woman killed and her brother catastrophically injured when a drunk driver traveled the wrong way on I-95 in December 2015 after being overserved at a Miami bar.

A Manhattan jury awarded $85 million to a writer and former New York Times columnist who was severely injured by a double-decker sightseeing bus while lawfully crossing the street.

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.

Clifford Law Offices secured a $60 million settlement for Sarah Grasser, 31, left paraplegic when another driver swerved to avoid a deep pothole in an I-55 work zone and struck her car, rolling it into a ditch.

A Suffolk jury returned a $60 million verdict, then the largest damages award in Virginia history, for Brian Hugen, who suffered catastrophic traumatic brain injury when a Velocity Express delivery van crossed into his lane; the Virginia Supreme Court affirmed liability but ordered a new trial on damages.

After a speeding BMW rear-ended a mother and her four children stopped at an Ocala red light, a Marion County jury awarded the family nearly $52 million, reported as the largest verdict in the county's history.

Ross Cellino and Stephen Barnes won a $47.4 million Erie County jury verdict for a 22-year-old law student who suffered a catastrophic brain injury when two drivers played high-speed road tag on the New York State Thruway.

A $45 million payout for 15-year-old Nathen Jones, left unable to walk, speak, or feed himself after Chicago officers chased a car over a minor traffic stop, believed to be the largest the city has ever paid for a police-pursuit crash.

A Broward County jury awarded $43 million to Steadman and Eileen Haase after an 18-year-old drunk driver crossed the median on Rock Island Road in Lauderhill on December 22, 2019, sending his car airborne and crushing the couple's vehicle.

A federal judge awarded $41.6 million to two young victims after a Flandreau Sioux Tribe police chief initiated a reckless, policy-violating pursuit at speeds exceeding 100 mph on gravel roads in Moody County, South Dakota, leaving one teenager with a permanent traumatic brain injury.

A Limestone County jury awarded $41 million to a married couple who suffered catastrophic injuries when an intoxicated company driver ran a stop sign and struck their pickup truck, holding both the driver and his employer vicariously liable.

A Kings County jury awarded $40,876,000 to Matthew Falcone Jr., who suffered a traumatic brain injury, facial fractures, and permanent left-side paralysis after a Verizon New York truck struck him at a Brooklyn intersection in 2006.

A Franklin County jury returned $40 million against an intoxicated driver and the owner who let her drive, and the Court of Appeals affirmed every dollar in 2024 as the largest drunk driving verdict in state history.

An Oakland County jury awarded Brian Iminski $32,375,683 after a First Student school bus ran a red light and T-boned his work pickup, leaving him with brain and back injuries.

David Paris and Kathleen St. John won Ohio Supreme Court certification of a 1.4-million-member class and secured a $31 million court-approved settlement after proving State Farm concealed a 1994 high-court ruling that would have entitled policyholders to enhanced uninsured-motorist coverage.

A Hillsborough County jury awarded $30.1 million to a passenger left with a permanent brain injury after the truck driver's insurer refused to offer more than its $100,000 policy limit, a verdict the Florida Supreme Court unanimously preserved in 2023.

Barbara Dalby, an Odessa proposal specialist and mother of three, secured a $30 million settlement against Hunt Oil after one of the company's intoxicated employees struck her head-on in 2019, leaving her with permanent spinal injuries and unable to work.

Jeb Butler and Matt Kahn won a $30 million settlement for a 14-year-old North Paulding High School student who suffered a traumatic brain injury after a speeding teen driver struck her in a school-zone crosswalk.

A Los Angeles jury awarded $29,062,351 to Javier Perez, who was 16 when a doctor's car struck him in a crosswalk and left him with a brain injury, finding the driver entirely at fault despite no witnesses or video.

Washington state paid $28 million to a young woman left quadriplegic after her car struck an unguarded overpass pillar on I-5 near DuPont, where WSDOT had funding and a plan to install a protective barrier but never completed the work.

After a New York City Transit Authority bus struck and dragged Gloria Aguilar in Manhattan, costing her a leg, Gair Gair Conason won her a $27.5 million verdict, later cut to roughly $18 million on appeal.

Robert Mongeluzzi secured a then-record $26.55 million Philadelphia County settlement for David Williams, a TruGreen lawn-care worker who was left quadriplegic after a company truck rolled over on a Clinton County highway due to a bald tire the defendants had failed to replace even after their own inspection flagged it.

A jury awarded $26,255,367 to Maryam Hedayati after a driver ran a red light and struck her in a marked crosswalk, leaving her with a severed leg, a shattered leg, and catastrophic brain trauma.

Jeremy Vangsnes, a 21-year-old cross-country athlete who was left quadriplegic and brain-injured after a 2009 rollover on Interstate 90 near Belgrade, Montana, settled for $26 million against the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention after a judge ruled the driver was acting within the scope of his agency with the organization.

A 27-year-old Bay Area woman suffered permanent paralysis after an Acura dealership employee, acting as a self-appointed Good Samaritan, forced her vehicle off I-680 and into a catastrophic rollover; the case settled for $24 million, the largest personal-injury settlement in Northern California for 2016.

A Madera County jury deliberated for one hour before awarding $21,513,000 to an 18-year-old farm laborer left partially paralyzed after the van he was riding in was rear-ended at a railroad crossing.

North Carolina Lawyers Weekly reported that Meredith Hinton of Ricci Law Firm resolved a motor vehicle injury claim for $21 million in 2023, one of the larger auto settlements recorded in the state that year.

A Wayne County jury awarded $20,595,570 to Terry Novak after a van driver for FSS Technologies lost control, crossed the center line, and struck Novak while he was clearing snow from his own driveway in Romulus.

GJEL attorney Luke Ellis secured a then-record $20.452 million settlement for an 18-year-old who lost her left leg when an AC Transit bus struck her in Montclair, California, the largest individual recovery against any bus company in California history.

A Multnomah County court awarded $20 million after a drugged driver killed 23-year-old Grant Fisher on Highway 26; the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled the state's $500,000 noneconomic damages cap unconstitutional as applied, restoring the full award.

A developmentally disabled man left with a brain injury and quadriplegia after a commercial pickup rear-ended his car won $18,809,431 from a Denver jury in May 2024, ranked the sixth-largest Colorado verdict of the year.

Alexander Shunnarah Trial Attorneys took U.S. Army veteran Zachary Lucas's case to trial after Progressive offered $12,500 for a crash that fractured his skull and left him with permanent brain damage. On November 7, 2019, a Jefferson County jury unanimously awarded $18 million.

A Los Angeles County jury returned a $17,854,093.94 verdict in December 2024 after finding that Sheriff deputies controlling foot traffic during a large soccer-related street celebration gave hand signals that contradicted active traffic lights, causing a vehicle to strike two pedestrians in a crosswalk.

A San Diego jury awarded $16,702,050, including punitive damages, to Martin Castro-Gonzalez, a 61-year-old man left paraplegic when a drunk driver crashed into the parked truck he was leaning against.

A Gwinnett County jury returned a $16.2 million verdict against Amazon Logistics after finding the company bore employer responsibility for a contract delivery driver who struck and seriously injured an eight-year-old child in a residential subdivision.

A Broward County jury awarded $15.4 million to Dwight Grant, a 22-year-old backseat passenger who suffered skull fractures and permanent frontal-lobe brain damage when a drunk driver with a BAC of .21 rear-ended the stopped car at a drawbridge in Pompano Beach.

A Bessemer jury returned a $15 million verdict against the owners of a BP convenience store that sold beer to an underage driver whose vehicle struck a tree, killing a 13-year-old passenger and injuring three others in May 2007.

A New York jury returned a $14.1 million verdict for Ferida Kasnecovic after she suffered a traumatic brain injury when struck as a pedestrian by a vehicle driven by Faige Lamm.

A Las Vegas jury awarded bicyclist Thunder Roybal more than $14.1 million after an SUV driven for the Sapphire Gentleman's Club struck and ran him over, a verdict the Nevada Supreme Court later affirmed in full.

A Bucks County jury awarded just over $14 million after a Pennsbury School District bus jumped a curb and crushed a teenage student, costing her a leg. Thomas Kline of Kline & Specter tried the case. Pennsylvania's tort-claims cap later cut the recovery to $500,000.

A Black Hawk County jury returned a $13.6 million verdict for Jarvis Lee Boggs, paralyzed when a Waterloo police officer ran a red light at 61 mph without lights or siren and slammed into his car at 12:45 a.m. on New Year's Eve 2008.

A Tulare County jury awarded $13,284,363 to a nineteen-year-old Farmersville woman who suffered permanent traumatic brain injury and hemiparesis when a multi-vehicle chain-reaction crash sent an oncoming car into her lane.

Alexander Shunnarah Trial Attorneys represented ten of the fifteen passengers who sued the Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority after a MAX Transit bus driver lost consciousness and overturned a loaded bus into a ravine in Fairfield, Alabama. On December 11, 2017, a Jefferson County jury awarded $12 million, including $6 million in punitive damages, after hearing that the authority had kept the driver behind the wheel despite two prior fainting episodes.

A Duval County jury returned an $11.6 million verdict for James Lightfoot after Marilyn Hunt rear-ended him in 2011, with $10 million of the award covering pain and suffering; the Florida First District Court of Appeal affirmed the damages in 2020.

A San Diego jury returned a $10.8 million verdict against Pizza Hut after one of its delivery drivers drifted across a center divide and hit a mother and daughter head-on, leaving the daughter with a permanent brain injury.

A Miami-Dade jury awarded $10,577,853.93 to plaintiff David Brown after a 2015 T-bone collision left him with a traumatic brain injury, a stroke, and two years during which he could not speak, eat, or drink.

A Wayne County jury found the City of Detroit negligent after a tire came off a city transit van and struck a 59-year-old veteran in the head, returning an $8.3 million verdict that reached about $10.2 million with interest.

A Birmingham jury awarded $10 million to the family of Angela McCall, a 34-year-old mother of three struck and killed by a speeding driver who pulled a gun on witnesses and then fled the scene.

A Genesee County jury awarded Amber Briolat $8.3 million for injuries from a 2014 intersection crash, after Auto-Owners Insurance contested fault and offered her only $300,000 before trial.

An Oakland County jury awarded Brent Grant $7.9 million on his uninsured motorist claim against Auto-Owners Insurance after the company offered $20,000 to settle, and the verdict survived the insurer's appeal.

A Dallas County jury awarded Greyhound passenger Ashley Reedy $7.2 million after a phone-distracted driver rolled the bus on an icy stretch of Interstate 40.

A Denver jury awarded $7,110,624 to Deysi Cari after she was struck by a vehicle while crossing a marked crosswalk with the right-of-way, with the defendant having admitted liability before trial.

A Stanislaus County jury awarded Kerry Bosch $6,678,026 after a company truck driven by an employee of Premiere Raspberries, LLC rear-ended her vehicle on northbound I-5 near Patterson, leaving her with a lumbar disc herniation that required spinal fusion surgery.

An LACMTA driver opened the doors a full lane from the curb on Florence Avenue, a passing car struck Kevin McElrath as he stepped out, and a Los Angeles jury awarded him $5,771,068.50 with no fault assigned to him.

A Macomb County jury awarded Tony and Lisa Broeren $5.65 million after a Chrysler employee ran Tony over with a company pickup and left him with a brain injury, and the trial judge upheld the verdict in full.

A Hennepin County jury awarded $5.33 million after a Metro Transit bus driver closed the doors and pulled away while Christopher Swickard was approaching, causing the rear wheels to run over him and require amputation of his left leg below the knee.

A police chase on wet Virginia roads ended in a head-on collision that killed a six-months-pregnant passenger's unborn son and left her with catastrophic injuries, and the case settled for $5.24 million.

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.

A woman in her 30s was airlifted after a corporate driver cut across her path in early 2023; a pelvic floor injury went undetected for more than two years before she required complex surgery, and the case settled for $4.85 million in February 2026.

A driver in a 1980s sports car suffered a dozen fractures in a clear-day head-on collision with a truck on a 45-mph business road, and the case settled for $4.75 million.

Joseph Cammarata secured a $4.5 million jury verdict for Sherry Galloway, a pedestrian dragged under a DASH bus in August 2014 by a driver Alexandria Transit Company kept behind the wheel despite four prior preventable accidents.

Christopher DiGirolamo secured $4.4 million for a Wayne boy who suffered a traumatic brain injury and partial paralysis when a drunk driver rear-ended his family's minivan, with $950,000 coming from the bar that served the driver under New Jersey's Dram Shop Act.

A California appellate court refused to let Jelly Belly Candy Company withdraw its attorney's prior admission that a driver operating the company's touring promotional vehicle was acting within the scope of employment when she collided with and injured a California woman, leaving a jury verdict of nearly $3.8 million intact.

A Jefferson County jury awarded $3.7 million to Tiffany Horton after a drunk driver crossed the median on Highway 280 and killed her unborn daughter Adley in a head-on crash, in what attorneys described as possibly the first Alabama jury verdict treating an unborn child as a wrongful-death victim.

A South Carolina man rear-ended by a drunk driver who fled the scene recovered $3.6 million after the driver's employer disputed vehicle ownership and scope of employment, with cervical fusion and knee surgery documented.

A Gwinnett County jury awarded $3.6 million to a couple who each underwent spinal fusion surgery after a Georgia Power utility truck struck their stopped Nissan Maxima from behind.

A St. Louis man who suffered permanent bilateral brain damage after an Audi SUV ran him over on a Charleston sidewalk in 2017 settled the resulting federal lawsuit for $3.5 million in July 2020.

A Sacramento jury returned a $3,299,455 verdict for a motorist whose spinal injuries from a 2015 rear-end collision left him permanently disabled, despite the defense contesting both causation and the claimed damages.

A federal jury in Pittsburgh awarded $3.22 million to Ronnie Kirkpatrick and his wife after GEICO refused to pay the full underinsured motorist benefits they were owed following a 2012 crash in Butler County, Pennsylvania.

A 22-year-old worker creeping along a West Virginia interstate on a flat tire was rear-ended and thrown from his vehicle, and Marks & Harrison resolved the case for $3 million.

After Cincinnati Casualty told an Aurora man he owed nothing following three spinal surgeries from a multi-car crash, a Denver jury returned a verdict of more than $3 million for breach of contract and insurance bad faith.

DeMayo Law attorneys Elizabeth G. Grimes and Michael A. DeMayo won a $3 million settlement for an elderly North Carolina man who was run over by another vehicle while standing beside his disabled car on a West Virginia roadside.

Attorney Joseph Morrison secured a $2,502,500 settlement for a motorist who sustained bone fractures after another driver made an illegal turn and caused a car-on-car collision in Texas.

After a rear-end collision in stop-and-go traffic left James Geringer needing cervical disc replacement and hip surgery, The Bruning Law Firm secured a $2.5 million settlement against Nationwide Insurance.

A Los Angeles County jury awarded Celeste Galvez $2,430,615 in her motor-vehicle injury case against Robert Roland Firchow, a result later ranked among the county's top 50 personal-injury verdicts of 2019.

Robert Pasquale secured a $2.39 million jury verdict for Cynthia Cowee after a truck struck her vehicle as she exited a Wilmington Country Club driveway onto Route 52, with the Delaware Supreme Court ultimately reinstating that award after the trial court had ordered a second trial.

A passenger suffered spinal injuries in a multi-vehicle rear-end collision in Texas; co-counsel Joseph Morrison of Mullen & Mullen Law Firm and Christopher S. Hamilton of Hamilton Wingo, LLP secured a $2.375 million settlement, ranking #26 among all Texas personal injury settlements in 2024.

A 35-year-old bicyclist left with a traumatic brain injury after a driver ran a stop sign recovered $2.3 million, approved within months and routed through a special needs trust so his care could continue.

A North Carolina motorist who needed multiple surgeries for femur fractures, a torn bowel, and a pulmonary embolism after a 2022 vehicle collision settled his case for $2.25 million.

After Owners Insurance refused to fairly pay a rear-end collision victim's underinsured motorist claim and offered only $150,000 on a $1 million policy, a federal jury found the insurer liable for breach of contract and statutory bad faith. The district court applied Colorado's unreasonable-delay statute to bring Donald Etherton's judgment to $2.25 million, a result the Tenth Circuit affirmed in full in 2016.

A Dorchester County jury awarded $2.2 million to a Summerville plumber who suffered cervical disc herniation and spinal cord compression after being rear-ended at a traffic light, believed to be the largest automobile accident verdict in the county's history.

A 91-year-old woman lost her leg in a car accident where fault was admitted immediately, but American Family Insurance delayed paying her claim for months; a Minnesota jury awarded $2.2 million after the insurer's repeated low offers.

A plumber rear-ended at a Dorchester County stoplight won a $2.2 million jury verdict in 2018, then secured a $2.15 million global settlement the following year after Geico faced a bad-faith lawsuit for refusing to tender its $50,000 policy limits before trial.

A corporate executive and mother of two suffered a traumatic brain injury when an underinsured driver T-boned her car; her own insurer, Acuity, offered $250,000 against a $1.5 million policy, and a Minnesota jury returned a $2.1 million verdict.

An Oakland County jury awarded John Hoye $2 million after a four-day trial over a 2021 White Lake Township crash, seven times the $275,000 Auto-Owners Insurance had put on the table before trial.

A Tarrant County jury awarded Lionel Telfort and Katiria Nunez more than $2 million on their underinsured motorist claim against State Farm after the at-fault driver's policy limits left their damages unsatisfied; State Farm's subsequent appeal was dismissed in 2024.

A pedestrian struck by a motor vehicle suffered a traumatic brain injury and settled for $2 million, ranking #11 on TopVerdict's Top 20 Connecticut Settlements of 2017.

A Fulton County jury returned a $1.6 million verdict for a cyclist injured in a head-on bicycle collision on 10th Street in Midtown Atlanta after State Farm declined to offer more than $430,000 over three years of negotiations.

Mike Rafi secured a $1.6 million presuit settlement for a 69-year-old builder and jazz journalist who suffered a fractured skull and lasting neurological damage after an SUV driver reversed out of a driveway and struck him on a Decatur sidewalk while he was walking his dog.

A 30-year-old passenger was left tetraplegic after a speeding driver hit his stalled car on a South Carolina road, and Michael A. DeMayo stacked two liability policies and an umbrella policy to reach a $1.6 million settlement.

A Gwinnett County jury awarded $1.5 million to a car-crash plaintiff represented by Mike Rafi and Alex Brown, but Judge Ronda S. Colvin vacated the verdict because Rafi had posted videos before trial discussing the case, prompting national legal-press coverage; the matter later settled.

A King County jury awarded $1,482,200 to four University of Washington marching-band members who were injured when their charter bus rolled onto its side on icy Interstate 90 en route to the 2018 Apple Cup.

Attorneys Matthew T. Gammons and Jordan J. Nazarzadeh of Rosenbaum and Rosenbaum negotiated a $1.4 million settlement for plaintiffs injured in a 2018 New York motor vehicle collision.

Carter Mario recovered $1.25 million for pedestrian Deborah Okolovitch after a driver exiting a parking lot struck her, with defense counsel contesting liability because she was not in a marked crosswalk.

Justin Shapiro of Leesfield and Partners negotiated a $1.25 million presuit settlement for the family of an 84-year-old man fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver in Orlando, despite the vehicle owner and the driver both invoking the Fifth Amendment and refusing to cooperate with their insurer.

A Connecticut motor vehicle accident victim secured a $1.2 million settlement in 2024, handled by Trantolo and Trantolo attorney Adam Allegro, with a counterclaim remaining on the docket at the time of reporting.

An arbitration panel ordered Safeco to pay more than $1.2 million to Canby teenager Connor Zieg after a driver with a .285 blood alcohol level fell asleep, drove onto the sidewalk, and ran him over, though a policy cap held his actual recovery to $500,000.

A jury awarded $1.2 million in pain and suffering to a retired 69-year-old woman struck by an unmarked Town of Cheektowaga police vehicle as she crossed legally in a crosswalk, with the Fourth Department unanimously affirming the verdict on appeal.

A St. Louis City jury awarded Tara Straussner $1,168,829 after a city employee driving a concrete truck crossed the centerline and hit her head-on, leaving her with a permanent brain injury, though Missouri's sovereign-immunity cap held the city's payout near $517,000.

A TSR Injury Law trial team secured a $1.1 million jury verdict for a woman who suffered three cervical surgeries after a 16-year-old driving on only a learner's permit struck her car broadside.

Justin Meier sustained cardiac and neurological injuries including atrial fibrillation requiring pacemaker implantation after an unknown driver caused a multi-vehicle collision in December 2023; his employer's uninsured motorist policy settled for $1 million in July 2025.

A St. Louis County jury awarded Ashli Friemon $1 million after a rear-end collision that left almost no visible damage to her car, with MRI evidence of early edema proving the crash caused her neck and back injuries.

After a two-week trial in which the defense disputed whether the collision caused the plaintiffs' injuries, a Harris County jury returned a $917,874 verdict in April 2023 for Frank and Candace Gabeletto, ranking the result No. 23 among Texas's top personal injury verdicts that year.

A Richland County jury awarded $897,500 to a 28-year-old Army soldier, including $538,500 in punitive damages, after a chain-reaction rear-end crash on I-26 left him with shoulder and back injuries that forced a medical discharge.

A licensed practical nurse who suffered a mild traumatic brain injury and six separate fractures in a Moore County crash recovered $879,000 through Joseph Tunstall of O'Malley Tunstall PC after the defense challenged whether her near-full return to work diminished the case value.

A rear-end impact shoved a Greenville driver into oncoming traffic, and after an L5-S1 disc herniation left her facing recommended spinal surgery, Kristin Oakley of Ricci Law Firm settled the case for $850,000.

A jury awarded $760,035 to a news reporter who suffered a fractured tibia after a municipal truck driver struck and then backed over his leg in a Huntersville parking lot, and the NC Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed the verdict over a contributory-negligence challenge.

A Hartford jury awarded a Farmington man $707,149 in September 2021 after a two-vehicle collision left him with chronic back injuries and a torn rotator cuff, exceeding the amount plaintiff's counsel had requested by $32,000.

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 rear-end collision by a teen driver near Leawood, Kansas aggravated the plaintiff's pre-existing neck condition and required surgery; after the court struck the defense liability expert one week before trial, the case settled for $600,000.

An Austin jury awarded Steven Gambler $591,560 in June 2024 after a Servicemaster restoration company driver struck him in a parking lot in July 2021.

Bridgeport resident Melina Pedraza was stopped in traffic on Fairfield Avenue when a driver rear-ended her vehicle, aggravating a neck injury she had sustained just three weeks earlier, and Carter Mario Injury Lawyers secured a $575,000 settlement on her behalf.

In 2015, a Texas jury awarded $568,875 to the plaintiff in a car accident case tried by Hank Stout and Graham Sutliff of Sutliff & Stout, ranking the result 77th among all Texas civil jury verdicts for the year on TopVerdict's annual list.

Margaret Linville, 58, suffered bilateral distal femur fractures, fractured ribs, and a traumatic brain injury when her Charlotte taxi struck a telephone pole after another cab cut it off and fled the scene; dashcam footage identified the fleeing driver, and the case settled for $500,000.

A Bexar County jury valued Daniel Irwin's crash injuries at nearly $499,000, and in 2021 the Texas Supreme Court let his policy recovery and a $45,540 attorney-fee award against Allstate stand, confirming that Texas drivers can sue their own underinsured-motorist carrier by declaratory judgment.

Scott Mumley, a South Windsor man rear-ended on the Berlin Turnpike while driving for work, settled an underinsured motorist claim against his own insurer for $480,000.

A confidential plaintiff who suffered bilateral rotator cuff tears and surgical repair after a 2023 Jackson County collision recovered $404,642 with Horn Law Firm attorney Laurie Del Percio.

A retired Texas elementary school teacher received a $402,500 settlement after a distracted teenage driver crossed the center line on FM 2843 in Bell County and struck her vehicle head-on, fracturing seven ribs and forcing her to leave a teaching career that had spanned five decades.

A Williamson County jury found Barbara Burgess entitled to $386,008 in compensatory damages after her UIM carrier, Allstate, refused to pay her claim without a trial, then paid the $50,000 policy limit only after the verdict came in.

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.

Ramos Law attorney Jessica Schlatter took a rear-end collision case to trial in Douglas County and won a $350,350 jury verdict in 2023, holding both the driver and a second party responsible through negligent-entrustment and vicarious-liability claims.

A Waterbury jury awarded $350,000 to Joanne Cunningham after Diane Turchiano blew through a stop sign at high speed and T-boned her vehicle at a Southbury intersection, leaving Cunningham with permanent spinal and nerve injuries.

Denver settled for $350,000 after a police officer driving 75 mph against traffic without lights or sirens fractured delivery driver Christopher Cordova's leg in a 2021 head-on crash.

Attorney Melissa Brescia obtained a $337,433 underinsured motorist settlement for Joshua Jeudy after a three-car Connecticut accident, successfully arguing that the recommended surgery was a matter of if, not when, even though Jeudy had declined the procedure.

A mother, father, and infant recovered $303,000 after a 2023 right-of-way collision fractured the mother's radius and ended her ability to work as a nurse during her recovery.

A confidential plaintiff who sustained head, brain, neck, and spinal injuries when a driver made an improper lane change and sideswiped his vehicle recovered $300,000 through Horn Law Firm attorney Laurie Del Percio.

Ben Abbott PC secured a $286,715 jury verdict for a grandmother, her daughter, and her grandson after a pickup truck driver rear-ended their stopped sedan on Westmoreland Road in Dallas.

A confidential plaintiff stopped in westbound I-470 traffic was rear-ended with enough force to push his car into the concrete median, sustaining neck, chest, rib, and leg injuries; Laurie Del Percio of Horn Law Firm secured a $266,000 settlement in July 2025.

Rich Ruohonen secured a $265,000 uninsured motorist verdict against State Farm in Hennepin County, trying one of the first civil jury trials in Minnesota after COVID-19 lockdowns shut down the courts.

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 minor passenger whose hip required surgery after a 2023 red-light collision in Jackson County recovered $252,000 at the defendant's combined policy limits.

An 82-year-old passenger fractured her right hip when the car she was riding in turned left into the path of an oncoming SUV near a St. Charles County mall, and Richard Zalasky of Brown & Crouppen settled her claim for the driver's full $250,000 policy limit.

A St. Louis jury returned a $250,000 verdict for musician Elston Taylor after a 2014 intersection collision left him with ongoing arm and hand injuries that he testified could jeopardize his voice if surgically treated.

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.

Crosley Law won a $223,379 jury verdict against the at-fault driver who caused a 2016 San Antonio crash and made the client's own insurer, Allstate, cover his attorney's fees, an award the appeals court left almost entirely in place.

Pamela Duggan sustained serious neck and knee injuries in a December 2022 collision and eventually required knee replacement surgery before Horn Law Firm attorney Laurie Del Percio secured a $211,592 settlement in January 2026.

Attorney Laurie Del Percio of Horn Law Firm secured a combined $162,000 settlement for driver Phillip Stonecipher and passenger Holly Friese after a left-turning driver collided with their vehicle at a Sedalia intersection where they held a green light.

A Marion County jury awarded Constance Griffis $160,000 after finding that a 2010 rear-end collision on US 441 caused a traumatic brain injury that produced lasting seizures, memory loss, and cognitive disruption.

A Colorado jury returned a $140,000 verdict in Johnson v. State Farm, an underinsured motorist and insurance bad faith case that Ramos Law's Jessica Schlatter tried after the insurer refused to pay the claim.

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 Harris County jury returned a $115,234 verdict for plaintiff Krystal Buford after attorney Daragh Carter of Smith and Hassler tried a multi-defendant motor vehicle case through trial in March 2024.

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.

After GEICO refused to pay PIP medical benefits to a driver operating an insured vehicle with the owner's permission, Travis Mayor won a Court of Appeals reversal that forced the insurer to pay $61,187 in benefits, fees, costs, and interest.

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.

A Harris County jury found Dawn Barrientes negligent and grossly negligent after she struck a Houston family of four on I-45 twice, then drove away, awarding $41,993.71 to the Malave family.

A Montgomery County jury found a driver 70 percent liable for striking a 16-year-old pedestrian who had crossed outside a marked crosswalk, awarding $38,124.88 that was reduced to $26,687.42 after comparative-fault apportionment.

The Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed a $34,000 jury verdict for Terry W. Pitt, an Omaha chef who sustained a 20-to-25-percent permanent impairment to his body as a whole after a Checker Cab struck his vehicle while he was making a left turn near 22nd Street and Chandler Road in Bellevue.

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.

Craig Kelley and Faultless LLC persuaded the Indiana Supreme Court to reverse two lower-court defeats and restore the negligence claims of Yerano and Jessica Martinez, who were injured when a landowner's overgrown bush concealed a stop sign at a rural Miami County intersection.

In a unanimous November 2023 ruling, the Illinois Supreme Court held that auto insurers cannot strip uninsured-motorist coverage from family members who are struck as pedestrians or cyclists, establishing binding statewide precedent in a case argued by Disparti Law attorneys Jonel Metaj and Larry Disparti.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court held that Progressive could not deny uninsured motorist benefits to a motorcyclist who had paid for UM coverage on a separate auto policy, ruling the exclusionary language void as against public policy.

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.

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.

The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled in November 2017 that personal injury plaintiffs may present full, undiscounted medical bills as evidence of reasonable expenses, preserving the collateral source rule for injured Tennesseans.

Robert A. Krause of The Spence Law Firm resolved the first wrongful death bellwether case in the Toyota unintended acceleration MDL on behalf of the families of Paul Van Alfen and Charlene Jones Lloyd, killed in a 2010 Utah crash, with Toyota settling confidentially days before a February 2013 trial date.

Karen Gress was rear-ended on Interstate 35 after stopping for a prior accident ahead; Candelario Trevino took the case to verdict over a defense that dismissed the collision as too minor to cause real injury.