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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

  • Dump Truck Rear- Ended Plaintiff - Closed Head Injury To Child - $1 Million Settlement

    August 17, 1998

    Negligence/Auto

    Dump Truck Rear- Ended Plaintiff - Closed Head Injury To Child - $1 Million Settlement

    Brief statement of claim: A loaded dump truck caused a rear-end collision with a passenger vehicle in which a two-year-old child was a back seat passenger in an infant seat.

    Principal injuries (in order of severity): Closed head injury causing attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity.

    Special damages: n/a

    Tried or settled: Settled

    County where tried or settled: Johnston

    Case name and number: Pearson v. Boykin and S.T. Wooten Corporation (Johnson County Superior Court; 96 CvS 00885)

    Date concluded: June 4, 1998

    Name of judge: n/a

    Amount: $1 million

    Insurance carrier: St. Pauls Commercial Carrier

    Expert witnesses and areas of expertise: Treating physicians: Dr. Miriam Gardner, pediatrician; Dr. Herbert Fuchs, pediatric neurosurgeon

    Attorneys for plaintiff: Wade E. Byrd of The Law Offices of Wade E. Byrd, Fayetteville, and Leo Daughtry and Lou Starling, Smithfield