Case Results
$6,000,000
settlement
Negligent Supervision/ Personal Injury/ Paralysis
Confidential settlement during litigation and prior to trial for a young female client who was seriously injured and paralyzed from the waist down from falling while doing a back-bend unsupervised at a recreational center.
$3,500,000
settlement
Automobile Accident/ Wrongful Death
Confidential settlement for the family of a North Carolina woman who was killed when her vehicle was struck by a commercial truck while stopped in traffic.
$3,000,000
settlement
Automobile Accident
Confidential settlement for a North Carolina elderly client who received a serious head injury as well as fractured legs when he was struck by a commercial truck while standing next to his disabled vehicle while visiting in West Virginia.
$2,200,000
settlement
Bus Accident
Confidential Settlement after litigation and mediation for a client who was a passenger in a bus, when the bus driver fell asleep and caused the bus to collide with a tractor-trailer resulting in serious fractures to client’s neck, hip, and leg (Mecklenburg County).
$2,188,832.46
settlement
Car Accident – Personal Injury
Settlement for a 56-year-old client who was driving his automobile when a driver crossed the center line hit him head on. The collision resulted in broken legs, including bilateral femur fractures, a right patella fracture, requiring multiple surgeries, multiple rib fractures, and complications of a pulmonary embolism and development of painful post-traumatic arthritis (Mecklenburg County).
$1,100,000
settlement
Traumatic Brain Injury – Truck Accident
Confidential Settlement during litigation and prior to trial for a client who was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer truck and sustained a concussive traumatic brain injury that affected her vision, memory, focus, and caused post-concussive headaches. She also had neck, back and shoulder soft tissue injuries (Cabarrus County).
$1,000,000
settlement
Motor Vehicle/ Truck Accident
settled pre-trial; an elderly women was rear-ended by a concrete truck during early morning hours and her SUV was forced off an embankment. The plaintiff sustained abdominal and bowel injuries and underwent two bowel resection surgeries to remove the damaged bowels. As a result of the surgeries, plaintiff suffered bowel incontinence. The plaintiff also had non-displaced fractures in her neck and hand causing discomfort. (Burke County)
$1,500,000
settlement
Motorcycle Accident/ Negligent Hire/ Wrongful Death
Settlement during litigation for a client whose 31-year-old son, an Army Sergeant and decorated war hero, was killed when riding his motorcycle off duty and an employee of Caviness and Cates Builders turned left in front of his motorcycle.
$1,800,000
settlement
Automobile Accident/ DWI/ Negligent Hire/ Wrongful Death
Confidential Settlement during litigation and at mediation for a client whose elderly father was killed when a drunk driver who was on the clock for an electrical company crossed the center line and caused a head-on collision.
$1,825,000
settlement
Construction Accident/ Personal Injury
Settlement during litigation for a client who received multiple internal injuries and serious back injuries when non-secured overhead beams fell on him at a job site (Mecklenburg).
$1,900,000
settlement
Truck Accident
Settlement after mediation for a client who was driving his automobile when a tractor-trailer made a left turn in front of him causing serious injuries, including fractures to his arm, leg, and ankle (Mecklenburg County).
$900,000
settlement
Trucking Accident – Personal Injury
Settlement for a 42-year-old woman who was driving her automobile on a rural road when a tractor-trailer truck jackknifed and drove into her lane, causing her to leave the road and crash. She sustained painful Lisfranc foot fracture and soft tissue injuries causing pain with walking (Mecklenburg County).
$808,585
settlement
Tractor-Trailer Accident/Wrongful Death
Settlement for the Estate of a 44-year-old male truck driver from North Carolina who was killed when a commercial carrier tractor-trailer trunk pulled from the shoulder of the road into the lane of his tractor-trailer, causing a severe and violent collision in Arizona.
$800,000
settlement
Motorcycle Accident
Pretrial settlement for a 32-year-old man who was injured when another vehicle turned left in front of him, causing his bike to collide with the vehicle, and his body was ejected from his motorcycle. The client sustained a serious knee injury with several of his ligaments and tendons being torn in his knee, resulting in three knee repair and reconstruction surgeries.
$800,000
settlement
Defective Product and Defective Design – Personal Injury
Settlement during litigation at mediation for a 33-year-old man who was seriously injured when the bucket lift he was using to change streetlight bulbs in a Wal-Mart parking lot collapsed causing a 35 feet fall. The client sustained multiple fractures in his back that required surgical placement of rods, multiple rib fractures and flail chest, pelvic fracture, and a lacerated liver (Catawba County).
