Largest verdicts in Nevada

A Clark County jury awarded $3.8 billion against Real Water on March 21, 2025, after finding the Las Vegas alkaline water company liable for poisoning consumers with hydrazine-contaminated product that caused acute liver failure, autoimmune disease, and death.

Retained as outside counsel to the Nevada Attorney General, Eglet Adams drove more than $1.1 billion in opioid settlements across 12 agreements with over 40 defendants, including Walgreens, McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and Johnson & Johnson.

A Utah judge entered a $951 million default judgment against Steward Health Care after newly trained nurses, an excessive Pitocin drip, and a delayed C-section at Jordan Valley Medical Center left a newborn permanently brain damaged.

Robert Eglet of Eglet Adams served as lead counsel for approximately 2,500 of the more than 4,400 plaintiffs who secured an $800 million settlement from MGM Resorts International over the October 1, 2017 Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting, one of the largest victim-compensation settlements in U.S. history.

A Clark County jury ordered Health Plan of Nevada and Sierra Health Services to pay $524 million after finding the UnitedHealth Group subsidiaries negligently credentialed a gastroenterologist whose unsafe injection practices at his Las Vegas endoscopy clinics caused the largest medically caused hepatitis C outbreak in American history.

A Clark County jury awarded Henry and Lorraine Chanin $505 million against Teva Parenteral Medicines and Baxter Healthcare after finding that both companies supplied oversized propofol vials to Las Vegas endoscopy clinics, enabling the reuse that infected Henry Chanin with hepatitis C.

A Rio Arriba County jury held Acadia Healthcare and its New Mexico foster care subsidiaries responsible for placing an 8-year-old girl with a foster father who raped her repeatedly, returning one of the largest single-plaintiff sexual abuse verdicts in the country.

A Clark County jury awarded five hepatitis C patients $182.6 million against Teva, Baxter Healthcare, and McKesson after finding the companies negligently distributed oversized propofol vials to Las Vegas endoscopy clinics without adequate warnings against multi-patient reuse.

A retrial jury in Utah's Fourth District Court awarded $81 million against Beacon Roofing Supply after one of its trucks struck and killed a 12-year-old boy who was crossing legally in a marked crosswalk.

A Clark County jury found Amy Geiler's losses worth just under $47 million after hospital doctors raised her dangerously low blood sodium too quickly, causing permanent brainstem damage and locked-in syndrome.

A Clark County jury awarded $41.5 million to a young man who sustained third-degree burns over 90 percent of his body after the motocross clothing he wore failed to protect him from a fuel fire, finding LeMans Corporation liable for selling gear that was not fire-retardant.

A Clark County jury returned $38.8 million against Republic Services after one of its garbage trucks turned through a marked crosswalk and struck and killed an 11-year-old girl who was crossing with the walk signal.

A Clark County jury returned $38,625,000 against the owner of a Las Vegas apartment complex after National Guard Specialist Dylan Salazar was shot to death in its parking lot, the second-largest wrongful death verdict in the country in 2020.

A Clark County jury awarded $19,854,217 to Thomas Novick, a construction worker run over by a 14,000-pound rough-terrain forklift, in a case tried by John Shook of Shook & Stone.

A Clark County jury awarded $15 million to the wife and son of Eric Echevarria, 52, killed in December 2020 when Zaon Collins drove 88 mph through a 35-mph zone in Las Vegas.

A Clark County jury awarded $15 million after Harvey Chernikoff, an intellectually disabled paratransit rider, choked to death on a First Transit bus whose driver ignored monitoring rules and was never trained in CPR, a verdict the Nevada Supreme Court later affirmed in full.

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 Clark County jury held Lowe's responsible after Kelly Hendrickson slipped on liquid draining from store planters, fractured her skull, and permanently lost her senses of taste and smell.

A Clark County jury returned a $3,445,000 verdict for Jesse Lozano, who suffered serious cervical spine injuries after slipping on a wet marble floor inside Paris Las Vegas in 2018, though his collectible share was reduced to roughly $1.7 million after the jury split fault equally between him and the casino.

The parents of Dominique Lucas, who was stabbed 33 times on an RTC bus in February 2023 while the driver kept the doors locked, reached a confidential settlement with Keolis Transit Services, the RTC, and the bus driver in March 2026.

The Nevada Supreme Court reversed dismissal of personal injury and wrongful death claims brought by more than 100 Clark County Government Center employees and their families who developed cancer and other serious illnesses after working in a building erected on a former Union Pacific rail yard contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls.

Farhan Naqvi represented the family of Tina Tintor in a wrongful death civil action against former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III, who killed the 23-year-old when he drove at 156 mph while drunk and struck her vehicle.

Sean Claggett asked a Las Vegas jury for up to $63 million for Elisa Sales, who suffered permanent brain damage after monitor alarms were silenced and resuscitation was delayed during a pacemaker procedure, and the hospital settled for a confidential sum while the jury deliberated.

Ed Bernstein and co-counsel Gerald Gillock represented 43 patients who contracted hepatitis C after staff at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada reused single-use propofol vials, reaching a settlement as part of Teva Pharmaceuticals' $285 million global resolution of about 120 lawsuits.