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Verdicts & Settlements
  • $15.0 million involving man who was left a ventilator dependant quadriplegic as result of broken neck during intubation

  • $12.5 million involving a suicide

  • $10.75 million settlement with physicians and hospital in case involving infant who suffered permanent brain injuries at birth

  • $8.1 million wrongful death verdict in case involving an outpatient suicide, highest verdict in the United States in a suicide case

  • $7.1 million verdict represented the first medical malpractice verdict ever in Guilford County, highest medical malpractice verdict in North Carolina at the time, the second highest punitive damages verdict in the state

  • $7 million awarded by jury in medmal verdict

  • $4.5 million involving a child who suffered significant brain injury as result of medical treatment received for heart condition

  • $3.5 million verdict involving infant who suffered permanent brain injuries

  • $3.25 million for the wrongful death of husband and father of 4 children who died due to a failure to see and appreciate a brain aneurysm by a radiologist performing an MRA (Magnetic Resonance Angiogram)

  • Confidential settlement in 2002: $2.3 million for the wrongful death of a 38 year-old, wife and mother of 2 children who died following a routine thyroidectomy

  • Cumberland County: $1.5 million settlement in a car accident involving a 31 year-old wife and mother of 2 children which resulted in a closed-head injury and permanent brain damage

  • Macon County: $800,000 wrongful death verdict in case involving throat cancer

  • Wake County Briefs

    The News & Observer Raleigh, NC

    Copyright 1996

    Tuesday, June 25, 1996

    News

    Wake County Briefs

    State lawyers select officers from Triangle

    Triangle - Triangle lawyers were tapped for positions when the
    state's trial lawyers picked new officers over the weekend.

    At the 32nd annual convention of the N.C. Academy of Trial
    Lawyers, M. Gordon Widenhouse of Raleigh was named president-elect.
    William S. Mills of Durham was selected as education vice president
    and Elizabeth F. Kuniholm of Raleigh, public education vice
    president. Burton Craige of Raleigh was named legal affairs vice
    president.

    Wade Byrd of Fayetteville was elected president of the state
    organization.

    Howard F. Twiggs of Raleigh spoke during the gathering.In July
    Twiggs becomes president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of
    America, the national group.