Settlement: $555,000.00 Description: Defendant failed to yield the right of way on a bridge, stopped in the middle of the road, resulting in a collision with the plaintiff’s dump truck.
Settlement: $117,000.00 Description: Plaintiff was slowing in traffic and was rear-ended by the defendant.
Settlement: $390,700.00 Description: Defendants failed to timely diagnose the plaintiff’s condition of fatty liver disease, liver disease, and other medical problems, which lead to the plaintiff’s death.
Settlement: $95,000.00 Description: Defendant backed a U.S. Postal vehicle, without any warning and at an excessive rate of speed, into the plaintiffs and then fled the scene.
Settlement: $125,000.00 Description: Defendant lost control of his vehicle and traveled into the lane for oncoming traffic, striking plaintiff’s vehicle head-on.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: Defendant merged into plaintiff’s traffic lane, sideswiped plaintiff’s vehicle and forced plaintiff’s vehicle to strike the Capitol Grounds retaining wall.
Settlement: $400,000.00 Description: Plaintiff was performing traffic control duties at a road construction site when the defendant failed to obey the stop signal and struck the plaintiff with his vehicle.
Settlement: $872,354.00 Description: Defendant crossed the center line and struck the plaintiff’s vehicle head-on. The force of the impact caused serious head trauma to the plaintiff, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Settlement: $250,000.00 Description: Defendants (police officers) violated several of plaintiff’s constitutional rights by individual acts of excessive force, police misconduct, false imprisonment, improper supervision, and use of unnecessary and unreasonable force.
Settlement: $650,000.00 Description: Plaintiff’s vehicle was stopped for traffic and subsequently rear-ended by another vehicle, which was struck in the rear by another vehicle, which was struck in the rear by the defendant (a bus driver).
Settlement: $250,000.00 Description: Plaintiff was a passenger on a boat that crashed into a seawall at night. Plaintiff lost an eye and sustained a brain contusion, a broken nose and facial bones.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: Plaintiff was a passenger in a vehicle that was rear-ended by the defendant, who was under the influence of controlled substances, causing the plaintiff’s vehicle to lose control and strike a guardrail. Plaintiff died later in the hospital.
Settlement: $2,000,000.00 Description: Defendant lost control of vehicle while driving under the influence of alcohol and struck a tree, causing the plaintiff, a passenger in the vehicle, to have a foot and 2 fingers amputated.
Settlement: $250,000.00 Description: Defendant’s vehicle crossed the median into oncoming traffic and struck plaintiff's motorcycle, causing injury and his eventual death.
Settlement: $175,000.00 Description: While on the job, plaintiff got pinned by a truck that was backing up to a loading dock.
Settlement: $75,000.00 Description: Plaintiff was preparing to make a left turn when her vehicle was rear-ended by the defendant, propelling the plaintiff’s vehicle into oncoming traffic and striking another vehicle.
Settlement: $89,500.00 Description: Defendant exited a parking lot, crossed several lanes of traffic, and struck plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $132,000.00 Description: Defendant changed lanes without warning and came to a complete stop in front of the plaintiff’s vehicle, resulting in a collision.
Settlement: $80,000.00 Description: Defendant (a dentist) removed the wrong two teeth from the plaintiff’s mouth.
Settlement: $95,000.00 Description: Plaintiff was making a left turn when defendant failed to yield right of way and ran a red light, striking plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $150,000.00 Description: The defendants (physicians) performed an aortic valve replacement when they couldn’t remove the Swan-Ganz catheter. The second surgery on the plaintiff was not completed and, due to the negligence of the defendants, the plaintiff died.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: While attempting a left turn, the defendant struck the vehicle driven by the plaintiff, who had the right of way.
Settlement: $135,000.00 Description: Defendant crossed the double yellow lines and collided head-on with the vehicle in which the plaintiff was a passenger.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: Defendant ran a red light and stuck the plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $75,000.00 Description: Plaintiff, a pedestrian, was walking in a crosswalk when she was hit by the vehicle driven by the defendant, who was making a right-hand turn on a red light.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: Defendant failed to stop for a red traffic signal and struck the plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $90,000.00 Description: Plaintiff’s wheelchair tipped over when it struck a large gap in a parking lot surface due to a maintenance defect. Plaintiff fell to the ground face first, fracturing both arms and legs.
Settlement: $70,000.00 Description: The defendant failed to stop at a stop sign and collided with the plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $600,000.00 Description: Defendant, a property owner, failed to inspect and repair the electrical work and components in a dwelling, causing a fire that killed the plaintiff’s three children and fiancé.
Settlement: $90,000.00 Description: Plaintiff’s vehicle was rear-ended by the defendant.
Settlement: $120,000.00 Description: Defendant entered intersection to make a turn, failed to yield right of way, struck the plaintiff’s motorcycle and killed him.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: Defendant entered an intersection, despite police direction, and was T-boned by plaintiff.
Settlement: $102,000.00 Description: While stopped on the shoulder of the beltway, the plaintiff’s vehicle was struck by the defendant as he swerved in his lane.
Settlement: $300,000.00 Description: Defendant lost control of her vehicle, crossed the double yellow line, and collided with the plaintiff’s vehicle, causing it to spin in a circle and strike the guardrail.
Settlement: $90,000.00 Description: Plaintiff was operating her vehicle around a traffic circle when the defendant failed to yield the right of way and collided with the right side of the plaintiff’s vehicle, which was overturned and plaintiff’s right foot got caught underneath the gas pedal and was twisted and wedged underneath the pedal.
Settlement: $270,000.00 Description: The defendant’s vehicle crossed the median and struck another vehicle, in which the plaintiff was a passenger, head on. The force of the impact caused serious injury to the plaintiff, who later died.
Settlement: $1,750,000.00 Description: The defendant (a police officer) intentionally and without cause or warning shot the plaintiff in the back, as he proceeded toward his sister’s house, paralyzing him. The plaintiff had not committed any crime and was not suspected of committing any crime at the time of the shooting.
Settlement: $1,700,000.00 Description: The defendant, operating a commercial truck, negligently failed to stop his vehicle at a red traffic light and proceeded into the intersection, colliding with a vehicle in which the plaintiff was a passenger.
Settlement: $210,000.00 Description: The defendant struck the plaintiff’s vehicle in the rear.
Settlement: $185,000.00 Description: While the plaintiff was walking, about to enter a grocery store, she tripped on a metal bolt that was protruding from the front sidewalk near the emergency doors and fell.
Settlement: $110,000.00 Description: As the plaintiff was walking down a ramp, making a delivery of cookies to a grocery store, his tray hit a loose pole that fell on his head and knocked him unconscious for 6 hours.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: The defendant failed to stop for a red signal and collided with the plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $66,000.00 Description: The defendant’s vehicle crossed the center line and struck the plaintiff’s vehicle head on.
Settlement: $95,000.00 Description: The defendant’s vehicle crossed the center lane, striking the plaintiff’s vehicle head on, causing it to flip onto its side.
Settlement: $129,000.00 Description: The plaintiff’s vehicle was traveling northbound on MD 32. While slowing, due to traffic, it was rear- ended by the defendant, then it struck the guardrail, then it struck the defendant's vehicle again, and finally struck another vehicle.
Settlement: $85,000.00 Description: The defendant’s vehicle rear-ended the plaintiff’s vehicle in slowing traffic.
Settlement: $90,000.00 Description: he plaintiff was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped at a red light when the defendant’s vehicle lost control while making a right turn and struck the plaintiff’s vehicle head on.
Settlement: $60,000.00 Description: The bathroom floor at plaintiff’s employer's place of business collapsed and she fell into and hole and was injured.
Settlement: $250,000.00 Description: Plaintiff was a passenger in a vehicle driven by the defendant. Defendant lost control of the vehicle due to traveling at a minimum speed of 87mph in a 40 mph zone and crashed into a utility pole. The plaintiff was killed in the collision.
Settlement: $650,000.00 Description: Patient began to experience excessive vaginal bleeding and was hospitalized overnight. The defendant, a physician, performed an emergency total abdominal hysterectomy. Plaintiff developed DVT and pulmonary embolism and died one day later.
Settlement: $233,290.00 Description: Plaintiff’s vehicle was struck when defendant ran a red traffic signal, pushing plaintiff’s vehicle into another vehicle.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: Plaintiff took her vehicle to get an oil change and tire rotation. Afterwards, while driving away, the vehicle’s tire came off, and the plaintiff injured her left shoulder and body on the interior of the vehicle, aggravating her prior injuries.
Settlement: $150,000.00 Description: The plaintiff developed and died of complications from rectal cancer. The defendant, the treating physician, did not diagnose rectal cancer early enough.
Settlement: $475,000.00 Description: The plaintiff’s vehicle entered an intersection on a green light. At the same time, a tractor-trailer attempted to make a left turn in front of the plaintiff’s vehicle. Both vehicles collided, and the plaintiff’s vehicle was pinned underneath the tractor-trailer and then dragged.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: Plaintiff was walking in lane #3 of the road, because the sidewalk was snow-covered. The defendant lost control of his vehicle, slid on the snow, and struck and killed the plaintiff.
Settlement: $105,000.00 Description: The plaintiff’s vehicle was stopped in traffic. The defendant attempted to stop, leaving skid marks on the road, prior to striking the rear of the plaintiff’s vehicle. The collision caused the plaintiff’s vehicle to strike the vehicle in front of hers, creating a domino effect with several vehicles.
Settlement: $90,000.00 Description: The defendant’s vehicle crossed the double yellow lines and struck the plaintiff’s motorcycle.
Settlement: $80,000.00 Description: The defendant struck one vehicle and then proceeded to strike the vehicle operated by the plaintiff, causing her car to spin. The defendant then fled the scene.
Settlement: $79,500.00 Description: The defendant failed to yield the right of way to the plaintiff, striking the plaintiff’s vehicle in the side.
Settlement: $165,000.00 Description: The plaintiff was at a gas station, putting place mats in the rear of his vehicle, through the driver’s side passenger door. The defendant’s truck ran into the plaintiff’s vehicle and knocked him to the ground.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: The defendant’s vehicle crossed the center line and struck the plaintiff’s vehicle head-on.
Settlement: $95,000.00 Description: The defendant lost control of his motorcycle, striking the motorcycle beside him. The defendant’s motorcycle then crossed the center lane, into the path of the plaintiff’s vehicle, causing her to drive off the road and hit a fence to avoid running over the defendant’s motorcycle.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: The plaintiff was stopped at a stop sign. The defendant, traveling in the opposite direction, attempted to make a left-hand turn. A third vehicle struck the defendant’s vehicle head-on and pushed it into the plaintiff's vehicle.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: The defendant failed to yield the right of way and made a left-hand turn into the plaintiff's vehicle.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: The defendant crossed the center lane and collided with the plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $490,000.00 Description: A case of water bottles fell off of a shelf in Walmart, landing on the plaintiff’s head.
Settlement: $300,000.00 Description: The plaintiff was leaving the parking lot of Rite Aid when the defendant ran a red light and struck the plaintiff’s vehicle, killing her.
Settlement: $75,000.00 Description: The defendant’s speeding vehicle stuck the plaintiff while jogging on the side of the road.
Settlement: $245,000.00 Description: The plaintiff was traveling northbound when the defendant, traveling southbound, attempted to make a left turn into a school parking lot, colliding with the plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $90,000.00 Description: The plaintiff was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped at a red light. The defendant’s vehicle rear-ended the plaintiff’s vehicle, pushing it into the car in front.
Settlement: $250,00.00 Description: The defendant was operating a trash truck and made a right from a left lane in front of the plaintiff’s vehicle, causing a collision.
Settlement: $192,511.31 Description: The plaintiff was sitting in her parked car when she was struck by the defendant, who was backing into the parking space beside her.
Settlement: $49,150.00 Description: The plaintiff was a wheelchair-bound passenger in a van driven by the defendant. When the defendant accelerated quickly, the plaintiff fell over in her wheelchair and sustained multiple injuries.
Settlement: $82,000.00 Description: The plaintiff, walking with one foot on the sidewalk and one foot on the street, was struck from behind by a phantom vehicle.
Settlement: $61,500.00 Description: The plaintiff was stopped to make a left turn into a driveway when she was rear-ended by the defendant’s vehicle.
Settlement: $610,000.00 Description: The defendant had new tires put on his vehicle by Sears. A friend of the defendant was driving the vehicle when one tire came off, crossed the median, and went through the windshield of another vehicle, killing the plaintiff, who was a passenger.
Settlement: $135,000.00 Description: The plaintiff was making right-hand turn, with the signal on, when the defendant, driving a tractor-trailer, rear-ended the plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $90,000.00 Description: The defendant’s vehicle, pulled off on the shoulder, re-entered the roadway and struck the plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $250,000.00 Description: The plaintiff was at a complete stop on interstate 95 when the defendant’s dump truck rear-ended and dragged the plaintiff’s vehicle onto the shoulder.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: The defendant ran a stop sign and stuck the plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $200,000.00 Description: The defendant’s vehicle rear-ended the plaintiff’s vehicle and pushed it into another vehicle.
Settlement: $1,700,000.00 Description: During a hysterectomy, the plaintiff’s common iliac artery was erroneously ligated.
Settlement: $500,000.00 Description: The plaintiff walked into a break room at work and slipped on a wet floor.
Settlement: $250,000.00 Description: The defendant ran stop a sign and struck the plaintiff, causing head trauma, a herniated disc (C6-C7) requiring surgery, six broken ribs, and a collapsed lung.
Settlement: $56,976.18 Description: The plaintiff’s vehicle, stopped at a red light, was rear-ended by the defendant’s vehicle.
Settlement: $62,000.00 Description: The plaintiff was stopped in the parking lot of his home when he was struck head-on by the defendant’s vehicle.
Settlement: $22,750.00 Description: The defendant pulled out of a driveway onto the road and struck the plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $55,000.00 Description: The defendant pulled out of a parking lot and collided with the plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: The defendant made a left turn in a “No Left Turn” zone in front of plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $70,000.00 Description: The defendant pulled out in front of the plaintiff, who was attempting to make a left turn, and collided with the plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $95,000.00 Description: The defendant swerved into the plaintiff’s lane, causing the plaintiff to drive off the road, become airborne, and land in the median strip after striking a tree.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: The defendant ran a stop sign, struck the plaintiff's vehicle in the side, and caused it to flip over.
Settlement: $90,531.67 Description: The defendant made an illegal left turn without yielding to oncoming traffic, striking the front end of the plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $87,500.00 Description: Standing at a bus stop, waiting for a school bus, the plaintiff was struck by a van.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: The defendant’s vehicle crossed over the median, striking one vehicle before striking a minivan, in which the plaintiff was a passenger.
Settlement: $250,000.00 Description: The defendant attempted to make a right turn from the left lane, crossing in front of the plaintiff’s vehicle, which was traveling in the right lane, and caused a collision.
Settlement: $275,000.00 Description: The plaintiff was stabbed and killed in a restaurant/night club. The defendant failed to use reasonable care for the safety of their invitees, take adequate precautions, and have adequate security to prevent or deter criminal conduct and assaults.
Settlement: $292,500.00 Description: The defendant was operating his Fountain boat while intoxicated and collided with a Jet Ski, killing the plaintiff, a passenger on the Jet Ski.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: The defendant failed to stop at a red light and rear-ended the plaintiff’s vehicle.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: The defendant attempted to pass a vehicle headed in the same direction but did not fully return to his lane before striking the plaintiff’s vehicle head on.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: The plaintiff was standing on a pier when a plank gave way, causing his left leg to fall through the opening and his right leg to twist behind him.
Settlement: $200,000.00 Description: The plaintiff was crossing a pedestrian walkway at the airport and was stuck by a bus.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: The plaintiff was standing beside her vehicle, parked on the shoulder of the highway, when the defendant traveled off the roadway and onto the shoulder, striking the plaintiff’s car and pinning her leg under his vehicle.
Settlement: $226,000.00 Description: The plaintiff was struck head on by the defendant.
Settlement: $371,000.00 Description: The cap blew off a pressurized water line and struck the plaintiff’s left lower leg, causing multiple fractures.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: The defendant’s vehicle crossed from the left lane to the middle lane, striking the plaintiff’s vehicle from behind the driver’s side, causing it to spin and hit the guardrail. The plaintiff sustained a fractured femur and hip.
Settlement: $77,000.00 Description: The plaintiff was rear-ended while stopped at a red light, sustaining several injuries, including a herniated disc.
Settlement: $997,000.00 Description: The plaintiff’s vehicle was rear-ended by the defendant, who was traveling at a high rate of speed. The plaintiff sustained severe brain trauma.
Settlement: $80,000.00 Description: The plaintiff was slowing her vehicle down when she was rear-ended by a tow-truck. Injuries sustained by the plaintiff included a disc bulge with neck and back pain.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: The defendant ran a red light at a gas station and struck the plaintiff’s vehicle in the side. The plaintiff sustained multiple fractures, contusions, lacerations to the spleen and liver, a bruised kidney, and a chipped tooth.
Settlement: $100,000.00 Description: The plaintiff, a pedestrian, was struck by the defendant’s vehicle. The plaintiff’s injuries included head trauma, fractured ribs, and shoulder and neck pain.
Settlement: $275,00.00 Description: The plaintiff was traveling through a flashing yellow light when his vehicle was struck by the defendant, who drove through a flashing red light without stopping.

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