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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

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    MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERS

    Greensboro News & Record

    Copyright 1993

    Sunday, September 5, 1993

    TRIAD/STATE

    MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERS

    The Associated Press

    A former Fort Bragg sergeant has been sentenced to death for
    the 1988 murders of two Rowland Motel employees.

    A 12-member jury announced its verdict Friday in the case of
    Daniel Thomas Garner. The jury had deliberated for two days.

    Garner's lawyer, Wade Byrd of Fayetteville, filed an immediate
    notice of appeal.

    According to testimony, Garner checked into the Rowland Motel
    on Oct. 31, 1988, with topless dancer Dana Denise Adams. The two
    were intending to rob a drug dealer of $10,000. Instead, Garner
    killed two employees - Timmy Oxendine, 23, and Roger Strickland,
    20, both of Rowland - and took $700.

    Adams is awaiting trial on two counts of first-degree murder.

    Garner pleaded guilty last week to killing both men with a
    .25-caliber automatic pistol, the Fayetteville Observer-Times
    reported.

    He had previously been convicted of killing and robbing a
    Fayetteville convenience store clerk and wounding and trying to rob
    a Fayetteville taxi cab driver. He was sentenced to life plus 85
    years in prison for those crimes.

    After reading the jury's decision, Battle scheduled Garner's
    execution for Nov. 26 but then staid the execution when Byrd said
    he would appeal the sentence.