Largest verdicts in Georgia

John Foy & Associates was one of about a dozen co-counsel firms in the $162 million settlement for victims of a 2021 I-85 van rollover and fire in Gwinnett County that killed seven women from a sober living home.

A federal jury awarded $100 million to a 69-year-old man who was left quadriplegic after an Atlanta police officer deployed a Taser on him from behind, without warning, while he panhandled beside a highway.

A Fulton County jury awarded $47.7 million after a defective rear seat latch in a 2000 Lincoln LS collapsed during a crash, severing a six-year-old girl's thoracic spinal cord and leaving her paralyzed.

A Floyd County jury awarded $43.5 million to the family of Morris Ellison, an 80-year-old man who suffered malnourishment, severe dehydration, and an untreated broken hip before dying at a Rome, Georgia nursing home whose operator had diverted Medicare and Medicaid funds from patient care.

Jeb Butler and Matt Kahn, alongside co-counsel, secured a $40 million settlement against GDOT, a fence contractor, and a construction management firm after a guardrail left in disrepair for months on I-85 contributed to the death of Catrice Hunter.

Jeb Butler co-tried the first Jeep rear-fuel-tank wrongful-death case to a Georgia jury, which returned a $150 million verdict in 2015 later affirmed at $40 million by the Georgia Supreme Court in 2018.

A DeKalb County jury awarded $40 million to Jessica Mundy and her husband after her 2004 Ford Explorer spontaneously shifted from park into reverse, striking and running over her, after the trial team showed Ford had known about the 'false park' transmission defect for decades.

A Fulton County jury awarded $35 million to the family of Joshua Chang, a 21-year-old Yale student killed when his car struck a concrete planter on the shoulder of Batesville Road, finding the City of Milton 93% responsible for leaving a dangerous obstacle in the right-of-way.

A Gwinnett County jury awarded $30.5 million in November 2016 after finding that Gwinnett Medical Center and an attending physician failed to act on an ultrasound showing abnormal fetal blood flow at 35 weeks, delaying an emergency C-section long enough to deprive a newborn of oxygen and cause permanent spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy.

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 Henry County jury awarded $29.4 million against PeachState Hospitality after one of its housekeepers, hired without a background check despite a prior statutory rape charge, used a master key to repeatedly assault a 13-year-old girl staying at the company's Residence Inn in McDonough, Georgia.

A Bibb County jury returned a $25 million verdict against two OB-GYNs who failed to diagnose and manage severe preeclampsia, resulting in a stillbirth in 2017.

A Fulton County jury awarded $25 million against MARTA after a 66-year-old paratransit rider fell descending an awkwardly angled bus step and suffered catastrophic brain damage that left her in a vegetative state.

A pedestrian walking home from work in Cobb County lost both legs after a tractor-trailer struck and dragged him through an intersection and fled the scene; Fried Goldberg identified the unknown driver and carrier and secured a $21 million settlement.

A Cobb County jury awarded $20 million after a tractor-trailer ran a red light in Kennesaw and left a 57-year-old Pakistani immigrant with permanent, catastrophic brain damage.

A Chatham County jury awarded $18 million -- the largest personal injury verdict in county history -- after an infectious disease specialist failed to diagnose and treat a spinal epidural abscess, leaving Joan Simmons permanently paraplegic.

A DeKalb County jury awarded $16.66 million to a 21-year-old who suffered a traumatic brain injury and lasting mobility limitations after a chain-reaction crash on I-285 sent his car underneath a Brown Trucking Company big rig.

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 DeKalb County jury awarded $14 million for the wrongful death of a six-year-old boy killed when the car he was riding in ran a stop sign into a pickup, with Montlick's Bill Parker representing the boy's father.

A Bibb County jury awarded $13.775 million to the estate of Bennie Moore after an anesthesiologist's assistant failed to notice she had stopped breathing during a 2017 endoscopy, causing a fatal hypoxic brain injury.

A highway maintenance contractor whose crew illegally blocked both lanes of Georgia Highway 4 paid $11 million after a jackknifed log truck crushed the vehicle of a married couple, killing the husband and severely injuring his wife.

A Bibb County jury awarded $9.2 million to the family of Allen Turner, a 69-year-old Macon man who died after surgeons at the Medical Center of Central Georgia mistakenly severed his superior mesenteric artery during a 2017 polyp-removal procedure.

A Gwinnett County jury awarded $8.6 million to the mother of stuntman John Bernecker, who died in July 2017 after falling 22 feet from a balcony on a 'Walking Dead' set when he missed his landing pad by inches; the Georgia Court of Appeals later reversed the verdict on the ground that the Workers' Compensation Act barred the family's civil claims.

A Clayton County jury returned an $8 million verdict for U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Ronnie Stevens after a dump truck driver struck a construction barrel on I-75, launching it into Stevens's path and shattering his ankle and wrist.

A Clarke County jury returned a $4.36 million verdict against Dr. Subodh Agrawal and Athens Heart Center after a diagnostic cardiac catheterization fatally perforated the left ventricle wall of Juan Molina, a 58-year-old Athens musician and restaurateur.

A federal jury awarded $3,858,548, including $2 million in punitive damages, after finding Eastwyck Village apartment complex liable for the death of tenant Tijuana Frazier, who was struck by a stray bullet that penetrated her bedroom wall while she slept.

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.

Mike Rafi secured a $3.1 million settlement for the estate of Cynthia Louise Feijoo, a 61-year-old Albany, Georgia woman who died after her wheelchair was not properly secured in a medical transport van, with discovery exposing the transport company's false claim that she had been properly restrained.

A Fulton County jury awarded $1,718,367 in total damages after finding a southwest Atlanta convenience store 66% responsible for a shooting that left a sleeping passenger with an abdominal gunshot wound.

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 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.

Jeb Butler won a $500,000 jury verdict in Muscogee County Superior Court for a woman who was sexually abused by her Columbus pastor beginning when she was 15 years old.

Attorney Ali Awad secured a $75,000 settlement for three Muslim college students verbally harassed by Perry Greene while they prayed in a parking lot at Alpharetta's Avalon shopping center; the women donated the full amount to their local mosque.