Verdicts & Settlements
Since 1991, Verderame Law Group Arizona Injury Lawyers has fought for the rights of injury victims throughout Arizona. Over the years, we have obtained significant verdict and settlement amounts for our clients. We invite you to review some of the awards we have obtained on their behalf, and to contact us if you have any questions.
$25 Million - Auto Accident
Award for an auto crash involving a catastrophic brain injury to a small child.
$10 Million - Airplane Crash
Verdict for an airplane crash involving serious injuries to passengers of a small airplane on a sightseeing trip over the Grand Canyon.
$7 Million - Brain Injury
Judgment for a client who sustained a brain injury from a workplace fall. Settled during appeal.
$5.5 Million - Police Negligence
Settlement for $500,000 cash + a $5,500,000 judgment and assignment of rights against insurer. Suit against the City of Phoenix for police negligence in 1968, when then-5-year-old client’s father burned the family house down.
$5.1 Million - Helicopter Crash
Settlement for a helicopter crash case.
$3.5 Million - Medical Malpractice
Settlement for a medical malpractice case against a doctor and hospital in Ohio for the wrongful death of a 26-year-old mother.
$3.5 Million -Truck Accident
Settlement for a woman permanently injured by cement truck that ran a red light.
$3.3 Million - Drunk Driving Accident
Settlement against a drunk driver and his employer for brain injury and other injuries to family members.
$3.2 Million - Negligence
Verdict against State of Arizona. A woman lost both legs from freezing after being stuck in her car on a state highway. During a snowstorm, the state closed the road for winter and never checked for motorists trapped on the highway. See Up And Running, The Jami Goldman Story, by Goldman & Caga.
$3 Million - Negligence
Verdict for $1 million for compensatory damages plus $2 million punitive damages. Case involved the death of an emotionally disturbed institutionalized 10-year-old boy, who jumped out of a school van.
$3 Million - Nuisance Case
Settlement for a nuisance case centered on offensive odors and environmental disruption to neighboring properties.
$3 Million - Product Liability
Settlement for a product liability case involving a woman who lost an eye after being thrown from a bicycle with defective brakes that violated federal regulations. She did not suffer neurological injuries due to helmet use.
$2.9 Million - Product Design Defect
Settlement for a young woman injured due to firearm design defect.
$2.75 Million - Driver Negligence
Settlement for a lawsuit against a City in Arizona for negligence of one of its drivers resulting in brain damage to a 5-year-old boy.
$2.75 Million - Product Liability / Brain Injury
Settlement for a product liability case involving brain injury.
$2.3 Million - Airplane Crash
Award for an airplane crash at an air show involving the death of a young boy. The case was resolved at arbitration.
$2 Million - Truck Accident
Settlement against trucking company which lost a trailer wheel on the highway, causing client to swerve off road into a tree. Partial paralysis.
$2 Million - Burn Injury
Settlement for a short-circuit during installation of mobile CT unit burned hospital employee.
$1.9 Million - Medical Malpractice
Judgment in a medical malpractice case where a 60-year-old man was given an overdose of drugs while at an Arizona hospital.
$1.5 Million - Bicycle Accident
Settlement for a bicyclist who suffered back fractures and a pelvic injury after being struck by a car.
$1.25 Million - Motorcycle Accident
Settlement for a motorcycle crash case involving a client who was struck by a car that was illegally turning left in front of him.
$1.25 Million - Car Accident
Settlement for a client who suffered head and vision injuries in a motor vehicle crash.
$1 Million - Truck Accident
Verdict for a suit against a mobile home transport company. Wheel came off home being moved on highway, caused client’s vehicle to roll in median; orthopedic injuries and mild brain injury.
$1 Million - Wrongful Death
Settlement for a medical malpractice wrongful death case.
$1 Million - Medical Malpractice
Settlement for a medical malpractice case involving birth injury to child.
$1 Million - Medical Malpractice
Settlement for medical malpractice for surgical abdominal injuries.
$1 Million - Truck Accident
Settlement for young woman on bicycle hit by a pickup truck. She suffered orthopedic injuries, PTSD, and mild brain injury.
$1 Million - Serious Injury
Settlement in a serious injury medical practice case (details confidential).
$815,000 - Product Liability
Settlement in a product liability case. E-cigarette exploded in client’s pocket, resulting in second- and third-degree burns to his leg, hand, and penis. Case resolved shortly before trial against the store, distributor, and manufacturer.
$800,000 - Head Injury
Verdict for an 18-year-old male standing on car bumper while friend drove in parking lot; head injury caused when friend made sudden sharp turn, throwing client from bumper.
$700,000 - Sexual Assault
Settlement for a young man with cerebral palsy and no ability to speak who was molested while in foster care.
$675,000 - Car Accident
Settlement for a client who was t-boned at a red light and suffered herniated discs, tinnitus, and cognitive decline.
$675,000 - Car Accident
Settlement in a car crash case involving a man who suffered tinnitus, neck pain, and neurological deficits after being t-boned at an intersection.
$650,000 - Truck Accident
Settlement for a client injured when a commercial truck made an illegal U-turn on a highway, causing a serious collision and significant injuries.
$600,000 - Wrongful Death
Settlement in a wrongful death case for an adult whose elderly mother was killed when her husband started backing up the car before she was fully in the car.
$590,000 - Pedestrian Accident
Settlement in a pedestrian crash case regarding a 3-year-old boy who sustained neurological injuries after being struck by another parent in a school parking lot.
$450,000 - Car Accident
Settlement for a client who suffered tinnitus and related injuries following a motor vehicle accident.
$397,000 - Motor Vehicle Accident
Verdict for a man with broken leg and aggravation of pre-existing tinnitus (ringing in ears), when bellman at resort hotel overturned electric cart.
$350,000 - Car Accident
Court-awarded judgment for a client injured in an automobile accident. Liability was clearly established. (Client confidential)
$300,000 - Car Accident
Settlement for the policy limits in which a man was rear ended and suffered tinnitus. There was no airbag deployment.
$282,500 - Personal Injury
Verdict after defense settlement offer of $55,000. Light pole collapsed while electrician on ladder performing service; broken elbow.
$275,000 - Personal Injury
Verdict (minus comparative fault) for a TMJ injury caused by dentist during removal of wisdom teeth. No settlement offer by dentist.
$275,000 - Car Accident
Policy-limits settlement for a client who suffered cervical and lumbar disc bulges and an aggravation of pre-existing spinal stenosis in a car crash. The recovery included the at-fault driver’s $25,000 liability policy limits and the client’s $250,000 underinsured motorist (UIM) policy limits.
$250,000 - Eye Injury
Verdict after defense top offer of $40,000. Ruptured industrial hose caused eye injury and some permanent blurred vision.
$247,795 - Motor Vehicle Accident
Settlement in a motor vehicle case resolved in collaboration with co-counsel from Ohio.
$180,133.96 - Whiplash Injury
Verdict (minus comparative fault) for whiplash causing chronic pain.
$155,000 - Car Accident
Settlement for injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident.
$150,000 - Personal Injury
Settlement in a personal injury case involving a child who injured his knee while using a waterslide. Injuries included ACL and MCL tears and a fractured patella.
$135,000 - Tractor Trailer Accident
Settlement for a family injured when a detached wheel from a trailer struck their SUV on the highway.
$114,000 - Rideshare Accident
Settlement for soft tissue injuries sustained in a rear-end collision involving a rideshare vehicle.
$104,000 - Motor Vehicle Accident
Settlement for four clients injured in the same motor vehicle crash recovered a combined total from the at-fault driver’s insurance.
$100,000 - Car Accident
Policy-limits settlement for a client injured in a T-bone collision.
$91,500 - Wrongful Death
Settlement in a wrongful death claim arising from a fatal motor vehicle accident.
$90,000 - Motor Vehicle Accident
Settlement in an underinsured motorist (UIM) claim arising from an automobile collision.
$60,000 Total - Family in Car Accident
Settlement in motor vehicle case resolved for a husband at $50,000 and wife at $10,000.
$55,000 - Motor Vehicle Accident
Settlement in an underinsured motorist (UIM) claim following an automobile accident.
$51,184.93 - Car Accident
Secured $25,000 from the at-fault driver and an additional $26,184.93 through underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage.
$50,000 - Motor Vehicle Accident
Settlement for the policy limits: $25,000 from the at-fault driver and $25,000 through underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage.
$50,000 - Car Accident
Settlement for the combined policy limits – $25,000 from the at-fault driver and $25,000 through underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage, including a policy located through a resident relative – after available insurance proved insufficient to fully compensate the client.
$50,000 - Car Accident
Settlement obtained after filing suit and establishing liability, following a low pre-suit offer based on contested liability and pre-existing injuries.
$35,000 - Car Accident
Settlement for the policy limits of $25,000 from the at-fault driver and an additional $10,000 through underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage, after the insurance carriers had initially refused to pay.
$33,000 - Motor Vehicle Accident
Settlement in motor vehicle case resolved for the at-fault driver’s policy limits and additional recovery from the underinsured motorist carrier.
$31,262.10 - Motor Vehicle Accident
Settlement in a motor vehicle case resolved for the at-fault driver’s policy limits and an additional recovery through underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage.
$31,237.90 - Motor Vehicle Accident
Settlement in a motor vehicle case resolved for the at-fault driver’s policy limits and additional recovery through underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage.
$25,000 - Car Accident
Settlement for the policy limits from the at-fault driver in a head-on collision, secured after suit was filed just before the statute of limitations expired.
$15,000 - Car Accident
Settlement for injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident.
Confidential settlements
Confidential 8-figure settlement: Child born with birth defects due to chemical exposure to mother.
Confidential 8-figure settlement: Child born with birth defects due to chemical exposure to mother.
Confidential 7-figure settlement: Car accident case resulting in a head injury.
Confidential 7-figure settlement: Child born with birth defects due to chemical exposure to mother.
Confidential 7-figure settlement: Child born with birth defects due to chemical exposure to mother.
Confidential 7-figure settlement: Child born with birth defects due to chemical exposure to mother.
Confidential 7-figure settlement: Medical malpractice case involving the death of a 65-year-old woman in an Arizona hospital. The doctors involved were also sanctioned by the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners.
Confidential 7-figure settlement: For passenger in small airplane which crashed due to errors by air traffic control and pilot.
Confidential 7-figure settlement: Partly paralyzed teenager against car manufacturer, for inadequate roof strength and poor seatbelt design.
Confidential 7-figure wrongful death settlement: Against nursing home which neglected young patient with brain injury preventing him from speaking.
Confidential 7-figure settlement: Against Asian and Arizona adoption agencies for failure to disclose medical records which would have revealed serious congenital brain injury in adopted baby.
Confidential 7-figure settlement: 5-year-old boy with serious brain injury after being struck by speeding police car.
Confidential 7-figure settlement: For passenger in speeding car which crashed into highway barrier wall, causing permanent leg injuries.
Confidential 7-figure settlement: Chiropractor on bicycle hit by a pickup truck turning left. Shattered left elbow.
Confidential settlement (policy limits): Settlement on behalf of children whose parent was killed in a car accident. Resolved for full available insurance policy limits.
Confidential settlement: Shoulder injury caused by sudden collapse of defective wooden leg on massage table.
Confidential settlement: For woman attacked by guard dog which had gotten loose, puncture wounds on hip became infected.
Confidential settlement: For wrongful death of elderly woman with end-stage renal disease, killed when driver of van transporting her to dialysis negligently failed to buckle her seatbelt and caused crash.
Confidential settlement: Against hospital for death of 72-year-old man when nurse gave the wrong contrast material to doctor during a lumbar scan.
Confidential settlement: Against furniture company whose movers dropped a dresser drawer on client’s foot, causing RSD.
Confidential settlement: Against maker of commercial deep fat fryer. Defective design of fryer legs caused leg to detach and splashed hot oil, causing significant burns on back and neck.
Confidential settlement: Against doctor who prescribed Reglan for long-term use and caused permanent tardive dyskinesia.
Confidential settlement: Against State of Arizona for driver injured when his semi-truck went over the side of a freeway ramp in high wind due to the side walls being too short.
Confidential dental malpractice settlement: After successful appeal to Arizona Supreme Court establishing rule that doctor’s concealment of cause of post-treatment pain prevented the statute of limitations from running.
Confidential settlement: Woman with cardiac injury after Emergency Room doctor misdiagnosed her heart attack as indigestion and sent her away.
Confidential settlement: Severe ankle injury caused by Australian tourist who crossed center line near Grand Canyon and collided head-on.
Confidential settlement: Death of a teenage boy killed when the driver of the car he was riding in rolled over. Driver claimed the young man wasn’t wearing his seatbelt.
Confidential settlement: For policy limits for a fractured knee resulting from a motorcycle crash.
Confidential settlement: For a wrongful death claim resolved for the full available insurance policy limits.
Confidential Settlement - Car Accident: Policy-limits settlement for a client whose knee replacement was loosened in a motor vehicle crash.
Damages case settled after liability trial: Liability trial against state of Arizona. Jury found 50% fault on the driver who crossed center line and 50% fault on state for dangerous highway design.
Please note: the awards listed above are in no way a guarantee of future awards for other cases. Every case is different, and we cannot guarantee outcomes.
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