Verdicts & Settlements

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A LOOK BACK AT RECENT SETTLEMENTS/VERDICTS

October 2011

• Representation of Defendant in Smyth County General District Court for 3 counts of Assault and Battery and 1 count of Injuring any Property - All charges were dismissed the day of the Hearing.

September 2011

• $83,500 Workers' Compensation settlement claim involving back injury
• 75/35 reckless driving reduced to 44/35 in Washington County General District Court
• Client charged with refusal and DUI with aggravating circumstances, obtained plea bargain to DUI 1st, no jail time and a $300.00 fine
• Tried 2 assault and battery cases filed on a former police officer and obtained a defense verdict on both
• Methamphetamine addict facing 18 years on probation violation with 3 positives, drugs and paraphernalia gets SECOR Halfway House disposition in Washington County Circuit Court before the Honorable Randall C. Lowe 

August 2011

• $40,000 Workers' Compensation settlement claim involving hand injury

July 2011

• Alleged sexual predator facing 7 years for 2nd probation violation in Giles County, received just one year on July 29, 2011

May 2011

• $236,500 personal injury settlement filed in City of Bristol, Virginia involving a neck injury
• $20,000 personal injury settlement filed in Washington County, Virginia involving a neck injury
• $50,000 personal injury settlement from an automobile accident in Washington County, Virginia involving an arm injury
• $50,000 personal injury settlement from an automobile accident in Russell County, Virginia involving a back & neck injury

April 2011

• $2,500 personal injury settlement from a moped accident in Abingdon, Virginia involving whiplash 
• $50,000 personal injury settlement from an automobile accident with an uninsured driver in Washington County, Virginia involving a neck injury

March 2011

• $42,500 personal injury settlement from an automobile accident in Washingon County, Virginia involving soft tissue injuries
• $50,000 personal injury settlement from an automobile accident in Indiana involving a back injury

February 2011

• $18,300 personal injury settlement from an automobile accident in Washington County, Virginia involving a neck aggravation

December 2010

• $10,000 personal injury settlement from an automobile accident in Bristol, Virginia 

November 2010

• $13,550 workers' compensation settlement claim involving knee injury
• $52,500 workers' compensation settlement claim involving back injury

October 2010

• Achieved a favorable decision in a social security disability claim prior to hearing
• $60,000 workers' compensation settlement claim involving back injury

August 2010

• $6,500 personal injury settlement from an automobile accident in Bristol, Virginia
• $12,250 personal injury settlement filed in Smyth County Circuit Court
• $50,000 personal injury settlement from an automobile accident in Smyth County, Virginia involving a back injury
• $2,500 workers' compensation settlement claim involving back injury
• $42,500 workers' compensation settlement claim involving back injury
• Representation of Defendant in Smyth County General District Court for possession of marijuana and a dangerous weapon - all charges dismissed at trial
• A Contested Will that was previously won in October 2009, was appealed by the opposing party - appeal denied

June 2010

• $125,000 settlement in workers' compensation claim involving knee injury
• $24,000 settlement in workers' compensation claim involving wrist fracture
• $6,360 settlement in workers' compensation claim involving hand injury
• $1,500 settlement in workers' compensation claim involving back injury
• $13,014 settlement in workers' compensation claim involving knee injury

May 2010

• $52,000 personal injury settlement from an automobile accident in Bristol, Tennessee

April 2010

• $6,000 settlement in workers' compensation claim involving back injury

March 2010

• $150,000 personal injury settlement from an automobile accident in Tazewell County, Virginia involving a shoulder injury requiring surgery

Our Best Achievements of 2009

• $130,000 settlement in workers' compensation claim invovling a shoulder, back and thumb injury
• $50,000 settlement in personal injury claim filed in Washington County Circuit Court, Virginia
• $50,000 settlement in workers' compensation claim involving a head injury
• Explosion at a prison near the east coast of Virginia.  3 claims settled for confidential amount on behalf of Workers and Inspectors working on the site at the time of the explosion
• $94,085  settlement in workers' compensation claim involving a shoulder injury
• $69,000 settlement in personal injury case filed in Washington County Circuit Court, Virginia
• Obtained  a defense verdict in a reckless driving case regarding a motorcycle
• $85,000 settlement in workers' compensation claim
• $110,000 settlement in workers' compensation claim
• $93,000 settlement in civil litigation involving damage to a award winning horse
• $90,000 settlement in workers' compensation case
• $40,000 settlement in personal injury/slip & fall case prior to filing
• $225,000 settlement in personal injury case filed in Scott County Circuit Court, Virginia

Our Best Achievements of 2008

• $85,000 settlement in workers' compensation case
• A trial in Washington County General District Court on drug chrages resulted in a verdict of not guilty
• Obtained a not guilty verdict on a reckless driving charge in Washington County General District Court, Virginia
• Obtained dismissal on a reckless driving charge in Washington County General District Court, Virginia 
• $50,000 settlement in personal Injury/pedestrian/automobile accident
• $65,000 Worker's compensation settlement 
• Three criminal charges involving a car accident not guilty verdict in Smyth County General District Court
• $85,000 settlement in worker's compensation case
• March 27, 2008 Obtained a Dismissal of a Robbery Charge in City of Bristol, Virginia General District Court
• March 12, 2008 Obtained Five Dismissals on Five Different Clients with criminal charges in Washington County General District Court
• $175,000 settlement in workers' compensation case

Our Best Achievements of 2007

• $700,000 settlement in workers' compensation case
• $100,000 settlement in personal injury case filed in Washington County Circuit Court 
• settlement achieved at mediation for a confidetial amount for an elderly lady that lost her leg as a result of an east tennensee doctor failing  in on call responsibilities and sending her home in a stirrup cast when she required surgery
• approval of wrongful death settlement in confidential amount obatained after contested hearing in Washington County Circuit Court in a Medical Malpractice Case
• Wrongful Death Suit regarding the death of an 88-year old gentlemen who died as a result of feeding tube placement into his lungs by a nurse, settled by way of mediation for a confidential amount
• $210,000 settlement of a medical malpractice case against a hospital for nurses failure to detect and report symptoms of anphylatic reaction to rocephin and allowing infiltration into a 12 year olds arm, in which use of dopamine to stabilize blood pressure thereafter caused severe burns to the tissue

These verdicts and settlements are on an individual basis. They are not to be used to determine future verdicts that our attorneys may obtain on other cases. Each case is evaluated and tried on an independent basis.

September 2010