Verdicts & Settlements Secured for Our Clients

Money isn’t everything. It can’t fix everything. It can’t turn back time to before your injury. It can’t bring back a loved one. But just compensation in a settlement or verdict can relieve your financial difficulties following an accident. It can secure justice, ensuring the wrongdoers are held accountable for their devastating actions. It can help your quality of life if your injuries have left you disabled. It can afford you the assistance you need physically and emotionally to cope with the ramifications of what happened. It can aid you as you strive to get back to the life you led before the tragic accident.

That is our goal—to help you find some modicum of peace after suffering such terrible losses. That is what these verdicts and settlements mean to us. In each instance, we have helped a client get that much closer to feeling whole again. Though these dollars are drops in the bucket of their grief, we hope they accumulate, relieving their pain.

We find ourselves constantly inspired by the courage and humanity we see in our clients. Bringing their cases through to a successful conclusion and walking beside them every step of the way—that is how we show our gratitude.

The following verdicts and settlements are examples of Colling Gilbert Wright’s commitment to our clients.

$200,000,000

Settlement in the Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Case

$16,000,000

Product Liability: Worksite explosion case involving severe burn injuries and PTSD.

$12,500,000

Workers’ Compensation : spinal cord injury, paralysis.

$7,500,000

Medical Malpractice : dollar verdict against a pediatrician for failure to diagnose and treat a heart condition.

$6,800,000

This verdict of 6.8 million dollars against RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co includes 5 million in punitive damages on behalf of the widow of an addicted smoker who died from lung cancer.

$5,270,000

Settlement of $5,270,000 against a driver and her employer for burn injuries resulting from a fiery automobile accident.

$4,766,900

Wrongful Death Medical Malpractice : Negligent administration of medication resulting in fatal anaphylactoid reaction.

$4,125,000

Settlement of $4,125,000 against a heavy equipment rental company for negligent maintenance of a leased aerial lift resulting in an accident resulting in the paraplegia of the operator.

$3,800,000

Settlement of $3,800,000 against the manufacturer when a power company lineman was killed when his bucket truck lift device failed, dropping him to the ground.

$3,200,000

Medical Malpractice : Failure to timely deliver baby with fetal distress. Brain damage from hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.