Top 10 cash Verdicts in jury cases
USA Today - January 15, 1996
Paul Leavit Contributing: Robert Davis, Tom Curley and Robert Beninsca
USA Today
1/15/1996
These are the top cash verdicts last year, according to Lawyers Weekly USA. Some were reduced on appeal or through settlement. Others are still on appeal.
- $500 million to the family of a boy, 9, who died after opening a trash container that a Tampa company had filled illegally with toxic chemicals.
- $350 million and $70 million to relatives of two people killed when a French-made helicopter went down with engine trouble. The trials were in Missouri.
- $98.5 million to the mother of a baby left quadriplegic when deprived of oxygen for 5 minutes during delivery at Long Beach Community Hospital in Long Beach, Calif.
- $90 million to a woman, 25, who broke her neck when a Suzuki Samurai rolled over out side of St. Louis.
- $50.35 million to a Wal-Mart worker in Kansas City, MO, who was sexually harassed by co-workers.
- $45.3 million to parents of an identical twin who developed cerebral palsy. The baby, not properly hooked up to monitors after birth at a New York hospital, was deprived of oxygen for 10 minutes because of equipment failure.
- $42 million in the case of a deaf, retarded and speech-impaired girl, now 17, delivered in New York City by unsupervised interns. Forceps caused bleeding in her brain.
- $40 million to the family of a 6-month-old Georgia boy who lost his hands and legs to a rare disease. Kaiser Permanente sent him to a hospital 42 miles away where the managed-care system received a 15% discount.
- $40 million to a woman, 39, who lost a hand because an intravenous needle was improperly inserted during lung surgery at Long Island College Hospital in New York.
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