Largest verdicts in Arizona
13 independently-sourced personal-injury results from Arizona firms, largest first. Each links to the full story — the firm, the attorneys, and the record behind the number.
Gallagher & Kennedy's Kevin Neal and Kenneth Ralston served as Arizona's outside counsel and secured an $85 million settlement from Google over the deceptive collection of smartphone users' location data.
Robert Boatman and co-counsel recovered more than $50 million for Ventura County ranching and farming families whose herds, fencing, rangeland, and groves burned in the 2017 Thomas Fire.
A Maricopa County jury awarded $45.5 million to the family of a 26-year-old woman with severe developmental disabilities who drowned while unsupervised at a Phoenix group home operated by Developmental Systems Inc.
A Phoenix jury ordered General Motors to pay $17 million for the wrongful death of a Scottsdale woman crushed by her own pickup, a verdict the Arizona Court of Appeals later set aside over a flawed jury instruction.
Hired by the Arizona Attorney General to lead the trial team, Gallagher & Kennedy helped secure an $11.8 million settlement against Choice Home Warranty over deceptive home warranty sales to Arizona consumers.
A Maricopa County jury awarded $11 million to the widow of a brain-injured man who died after ingesting plastic bags, condiment packets, and other foreign objects while left unsupervised at a Phoenix assisted living facility.
Gallagher & Kennedy's Robert Boatman and Mark O'Connor served as lead plaintiffs' counsel in the Bard IVC filter MDL, and the first federal bellwether trial in Phoenix ended with a $3.6 million verdict, including $2 million in punitive damages, for Sherr-Una Booker.
A Tucson jury awarded $1.5 million to a woman who slipped on water leaking from a BCI Coca-Cola refrigerator at a grocery store, after the bottling company rejected a $150,000 settlement offer.
AJ Law, PLC secured a $575,000 settlement from the City of Peoria after the Arizona Supreme Court reversed dismissal of a wrongful death claim brought by the mother of a 12-year-old boy killed at an uncontrolled intersection in 2018.
Louis Hollingsworth secured a $400,000 jury verdict for a Tucson woman who slipped and fell entering a Safeway store, netting $360,000 after a 10% comparative-fault finding against her.
Gallagher & Kennedy's Patrick McGroder and Matthew Boatman represented 12 families of the Granite Mountain Hotshots killed in the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, settling with the State of Arizona for $50,000 per family plus a list of safety commitments.
A confidential federal civil rights settlement resolved claims that Glendale, Arizona police officers tased a restrained passenger 11 times during a 2017 traffic stop, including once in the genitals while he was handcuffed face-down on summer pavement.
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that a DUI exclusion buried in fine print across multiple rental car insurance documents was unenforceable, restoring supplemental liability coverage for victims of a drunk-driving crash.