Largest verdicts in Iowa
5 independently-sourced personal-injury results from Iowa firms, largest first. Each links to the full story — the firm, the attorneys, and the record behind the number.
Cedar Rapids' insurer paid $8 million to Jerime Mitchell, a quadriplegic man shot by Officer Lucas Jones during a 2016 traffic stop, in what attorneys described as the largest police-misconduct settlement in Iowa history.
A Winnebago County jury awarded $6 million, including $2 million in punitive damages, after finding Timely Mission Nursing Home negligent and reckless in the fall death of 83-year-old resident Darlene Weaver.
A Black Hawk County jury awarded $1.8 million to Massachusetts sound engineer Frank Sgambellone after a State of Iowa forklift operator ran over his ankle during post-concert teardown at the UNI-Dome in February 2016.
In a 2016 ruling that set binding Iowa precedent, the state Supreme Court affirmed that HealthPort Technologies could not charge patients more for copies of their medical records than the treating provider itself was legally permitted to charge.
A 1984 Polk County jury became the first in the nation to hold polyvinyl chloride wire insulation liable for fire deaths, finding six companies negligent in the 1978 blaze that killed ten Younkers department store employees.